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?
How were the preparations? Everyone have their ducks lined up or did some people drop the ball?
Here again is the committee membership - final version, I presume
My continued impression is that it is light on high energy astrophysics types and very top heavy on cosmologists, which is a bit worrying. I would have liked to have seen 1-2 more people who knew something about gravity as well.
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