Rob Knop's Blog -- ramblings and rants about astronomy, cosmology, science education, general nerdism, and anything else.
Rob Knop earned a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and did a 5-year post-doc with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and contributed to the discovery of the accelerating Universe. He was an assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt for 6 years before scattering out of academia. He now works for Linden Lab, the producers of Second LIfe. (Note: this is not an official site of Linden Lab! Although I work for Linden Lab, all content in this blog is posted without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own.)
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February 27, 2007
Category: General Relativity
A few days ago I made a nomination for the greatest mystery in all of physics. This mystery has actually been solved for more than a century, and the solution is extremely elegant.
Posted by Rob Knop at 3:39 PM • 61 Comments •
February 26, 2007
Category: The Business of Astronomy
...in which I bitch and moan about colleagues asserting that there's no gender bias problem in Physics.
Posted by Rob Knop at 1:16 PM • 30 Comments •
Category: General Relativity
Why are inertial and gravitational mass the same thing?
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:29 AM • 23 Comments •
February 23, 2007
Category: Pretty Pictures
Barred spiral Galaxy NGC 1365, for your viewing pleasure.
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:05 AM • 9 Comments •
February 22, 2007
Category: Science & Religion
My take on the "young-earth Creationist / Paleontologist PhD" bruhaha.
Posted by Rob Knop at 11:03 AM • 32 Comments •
February 21, 2007
Category: About the Blog
Galactic Interactions moves to scienceblogs.com....
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:12 AM • 28 Comments •
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