What if the Moon Didn’t Exist is a collection of speculative articles about different versions of Earth, published in book form in 1993. They were originally published in Astronomy magazine. The individual scenarios are:
- Solon – Earth without a Moon
- Lunholm – Moon closer to Earth
- Petiel – Earth with less mass
- Urania – Earth’s axis tilted like that of Uranus
- Granstar – More massive sun
- Antar – Effects if a supernova exploded near Earth
- Cerberon – Star passing through the solar system
- Diablo – Black Hole passing through the Earth
- Seeing the world via infrared
- Effects of ozone layer depletion
Famous quotes containing the words moon and/or exist:
“She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smooths the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept—the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)