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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November 24, 2007
Category: Big Bang & Cosmology
An article from New Scientist suggests that we are shortening the life of the Universe by looking at it. To which I say "foo"— primarily to the New Scientist article, not quite so much to the scientific paper behind it. (I do not leave it completely off the hook, however.)
Posted by Rob Knop at 11:16 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: About the Blog
My overlords at scienceblogs.com have informed me that they will, in fact, maintain the archives of Galactic Interactions indefinitely. Thanks to them! They are really a class outfit....
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:44 AM • 4 Comments •
November 3, 2007
Category: About the Blog
My Seed overlords have let me know that as I have decided to no longer continue this blog, I won't be able to keep the backlogs here indefinitely. Sometime in the next couple of months, the archives will disappear from...
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:51 AM • •
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