I"m sorry the blog's been so quiet recently. With my new job, and my trip out to SF getting started at Linden these last two weeks, I've been quite busy! Things won't settle down until next week, as I'm off to the UK for the next for days for the Gruber Prize award ceremony. I'll be back next week and trying to settle into a routine, after which hopefully I'll be getting to some of my mentally queued posts including one on the Coriolis Effect, one answering common criticisms you may see about the Big Bang, and hopefully one on the bigass void that some of you have read about.
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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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Posted on: September 5, 2007 8:55 PM, by Rob Knop
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Have a nice time in the UK.
Did you see the article http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/31016 seems the chinese read your blog and have recognised that negative results in science testing/research are not a bad thing.
Oh yes, they also had an article about you and your blog :o)
Posted by: Chris' Wills | September 7, 2007 5:49 AM
I imagine you've seen most of these before, but still you may be entertained by this collection:
http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2007/07/25/the-10-strangest-real-things-in-space/
Posted by: David Harmon | September 23, 2007 10:41 AM