THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN

摘要

Halloween is supposed to be a time of weird phenomena and spooky events. But by any standards what happened in late October 2003 was unusual. Telecommunications around the world were disrupted, half of NASA's satellites malfunctioned, 50,000 people in Sweden were left without electricity, and the global airline industry lost millions of dollars. The link between these events was not supernatural, it was something far more familiar: the Sun. The chaos was caused as our star went through one of the more active moments in its 11 -year cycle. And according to some predictions, what happened that October is nothing compared with what is going to occur in five or six years' time.