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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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General Relativity:

The Most Elegant Solution In All Of Physics

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.

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The Greatest Mystery In All Of Physics

Category: General Relativity

Why are inertial and gravitational mass the same thing?

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