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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: Science & Culture
If you listened to Science Friday on NPR's Talk of the Nation today, you may have heard Ira Flatow mention a question from "Prospero Linden"— that was me. I was there, live, along with a 30 or 40 other people...
Posted by Rob Knop at 6:05 PM • •
Category: Big Bang & Cosmology
Following the talk I gave in Second Life about the discovery of the accelerating Universe, we held a couple of Q&A sessions. The original plan was to have questions right after the talk, but the Second Life main grid crashed...
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:32 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Self
It's been a few days. I was out in West Virginia last weekend watching my cousin get married. After driving back Monday, I started the new job with Linden Labs, and that has been occupying most of my focus. I've...
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:55 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Big Bang & Cosmology
I managed to get through my 15-20 minute "talk," and just as I threw it open for questions Second Life had a database problem and everbody in-world had to be logged out.... We got back in 40 minutes or so...
Posted by Rob Knop at 3:39 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Second Life
Just a reminder: I'm giving a talk / Q&A session about the discovery of the accelerating Universe today in Second Life. The talk is at 10:00 AM PDT / 12:00 Noon CDT / 1:00 PM EDT / 17:00 UT. Find...
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:05 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Second Life
Next Tuesday, July 31, at 10:00AM PDT (17:00 UT), I'll be giving a talk and Q&A session in Second Life about the discovery of the accelerating Universe. The talk is being hosted by Troy McLuhan of the Science Center Group....
Posted by Rob Knop at 3:37 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Second Life
Second Life isn't a game, exactly. Some call it that, and indeed it is sometimes compared to various massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs). Really, though, Second Life is a virtual online world— it's not really a game, and there...
Posted by Rob Knop at 1:11 AM • 6 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: Second Life
Second Life is an online virtual world; some would call it an online game, but it's not really that. And, it's become one of my hobbies....
Posted by Rob Knop at 5:30 PM • 8 Comments •
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