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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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Category: Physics
An excerpt from the material that was in a talk I gave at a science fiction convention a few weeks ago: the motion of space fighters in Star Wars and Babylon 5, and why one is wrong and the other is right.
Posted by Rob Knop at 3:22 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: Nerdism
I'm just back from Hypericon, the Nashville area science fiction convention where, as I mentioned previously, I gave a couple of talks about science stuff— although one was about science in science fiction movies. I was also on a panel...
Posted by Rob Knop at 7:13 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Nerdism
This weekend I will be hanging out at Hypericon, a small Nashville science-fiction convention that is in its third years. I've met a number of people and made local friends there. I have also managed to finagle myself free admission...
Posted by Rob Knop at 1:01 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Second Life
Second Life (SL) is a 3d virtual world (some would call it an online game, but it's not really that; for one thing, it kind of sucks as a game, and for another thing, it's much more than that)....
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:26 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Science & Religion
To heck with bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, and all the rest. Yes, all of those algorithms were intelligently design, but none of them follow the precepts of Intelligent Design. And, now, David Morgan-Mar gives us Intelligent Design Sort....
Posted by Rob Knop at 1:15 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Nerdism
It's all the rage to post pictures of your mug. (A mug mug, as it were.) I have lots of mugs, but I figured that this is the one that best fits the theme. This is one painted by... me....
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:39 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Nerdism
Find out who won the second round of the Orbit Bracket showdown! And find out: can Rob come anywhere close to Chad's amazing Dork Post? Well, no, but that won't stop him from being a dork all by himself.
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:59 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Nerdism
How much of a nerd am I?
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:54 AM • 22 Comments •
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