· Overview. This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and in its oceans. Second, it proposes that the inhabitants of this subterranean biosphere are not plants or animals as we know them, but Brand: Springer New York. For many years Thomas Gold has been the prime proponent of a theory that, if true, would change many commonly accepted theories in both geology and biology. In short, he believes that "fossil fuels' are generated be deep, underground methane sources that feed a vast subterranean biosphere of bacteria. · The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels; Gold joins the deep hot biosphere argument to another, perhaps even more controversial theory for which he has marshalled evidence: that so-called fossil fuels originate not from compressed biological matter at all but from deep within the earth, present there since the planet's formation.
Buy The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels Illustrated by Gold, Thomas (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Thomas Gold ( - J) was an Austrian-born American astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in proposed the now mostly abandoned "steady state" hypothesis of the universe. The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels, by Dr Thomas Gold. n one place in his book he writes the following: "Astronomers have been able to find that hydrocarbons, as oil, gas and coal are called, are found on many other planetary bodies. They are a common substance in the universe.
In a paper, "The Deep, Hot Biosphere" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Gold first suggested that microbial life is widespread in the porosity of the crust of the Earth, down to depths of several kilometers, where rising temperatures finally set a limit. The subsurface life obtains its energy not from photosynthesis but from chemical sources in fluids migrating upwards through the crust. In the The Deep Hot Biosphere, Thomas Gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from, and how they acquire their organic "signatures." The conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe, but they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputabel stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific enterprise. The Deep Hot Biosphere proposes that life on Earth may have been made possible by the slow upward seep of those buried hydrocarbons, rather than the other way around as accepted theories hold. Thomas Gold made a career of turning accepted views upside down, and he was right more often than not. He could well be right on this one too.
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