Peter Baer Galvin is the chief technologist for Corporate Technologies, a premier systems integrator and VAR (www.cptech .com). Before that, Peter was the systems manager for Brown University’s Computer Science Department. He has written articles and columns for many publications and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts textbooks. As a consultant...

What makes the sun shine? How does the sun produce the vast amount of energy necessary to support life on earth? These questions challenged scientists for a hundred and fifty years, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century. Theoretical physicists battled geologists and evolutionary biologists in a heated controversy over who had the correct answer. Why was there so much fuss about this...