Don’t let the name of the book fool you it’s not a text book, we won’t be getting into any engineering calculations, and the goal of the book is to describe in very simple laymen’s terms the nature of solar energy, solar geometry and our existence within the universe, using skin tanning and sun avoidance as a metaphor, no rocket science here. The purpose of this book is to entertain, educate and share knowledge, which hopefully will provide you with a learning experience and aid your understanding of our physical world as well as opening avenues for you to contemplate your human existence as well as your philosophical, cultural, evolutionary, and spiritual beliefs. You will be provided with simple examples, analogies, and other anecdotes to aid your understanding and provide you with some level of entertainment value while you contemplate your human desire to either seek sun worship or sun avoidance. Hopefully you might learn something or at least enhance and expand your useless knowledge library The book is based on facts and known principles of physics, mathematics and heat transfer ( in simple terms) along with beliefs and analogies of the author that may or may not make sense, you may not agree with some of the author’s opinions, you need to think through your decisions and contemplation and form your own opinions. I am expecting that this book can be read in 4- 6 hours, (about the time you would sit by the pool, beach, or kill your flight time going there) and ideally I would like you to start from the beginning and work through the book, but I tried to write the book so you can bounce around to what is of interest to you, and refer back to the other chapters as needed or simply blow those chapters off, that are of no interest to you. Again it’s all up to you. The chapters include: Chapter 1- Universal Laws / Laws of Nature Chapter 2- Creationism, our Sun, and Time Chapter 3- Math and more Time Chapter 4- Earth / Sun Physical Relationship Chapter 5- Yin - Yang / Universal Balance Chapter 6- Heat Transfer and the R factor Chapter 7 - Electromagnetic Radiation (UV and Infrared), Light Waves Photons (a.k.a. Light Demons or Energy Devils ) Chapter 8- What is a Solar Collector / System Chapter 9- Human Skin Chapter 10- Lotions, Potions and Fabrics Chapter 11- Sun Avoidance Chapter 12- Skin Tanning So enjoy your reading, learn to understand and control your solar exposure, enjoy your existence, and I hope that as you read and think about the material, you contemplate your human existence and place in the universe. Hopefully gain some practical or otherwise useless knowledge that might come in handy for a game show or something. Remember Solar Energy is not a renewable energy source It is the source of all energy!!! (Including you)