Here is the provisional membership list of the NRC review committee for the Beyond Einstein program
Interesting bunch. Looks cosmology heavy to me.
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Science and Reason has a good summary on the ongoing Beyond Einstein review at NASA
The NRC committee held its First Meeting (Agenda PDF) last week.
Would some of those who were there like to comment on how it went?
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The National Research Council's Assessment Committee for the Beyond Einstein program had a townhall meeting here in the Windy City.
Much to my surprise, I was there also.
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ok, it was an e-mail, but it confirmed the strange tale I had been told.
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As many of you know, the Beyond Einstein mission line is being sent to Thunderdome to see who survives a meeting of the Dreaded NRC Committee To Be Named At A Later Time.
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Karl Gebhardt is a cosmologist now? Will wonders never cease....
Eric is interesting choice.
The JDEM program still looks like a train wreck. Need I tell them that the science is shaky and "dark energy" doesn't exist? From your posts it looks like JDEM may lose anyway.
Well, no you don't need to tell them that.
To this group Dark Energy is The Hot Topic, and deep type Ia searches and strategies for measuring the effective equation of state of negative energy density fields are a very high priority.
The overall sense is that JDEM has a good chance of jumping the queue (and further that SNAP will be the concept selected for JDEM); although the case is not yet been fully made and the competing missions are not giving up.