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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Shadow World – an unusual hero’s journey
“If this is about anything, it’s the boundary between creation and madness, art and science, the natural and the artifactual. Characters are fictional although some are inhabited by amalgamated aspects of real people. The science is factual but I insert … Continue reading
Posted in cosmology, fiction, literature, physics, science fiction
Tagged women in science, women scientists
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Maps of Physics and Fiction
My two favorite subjects presented through maps: Bernard H. Porter’s 1939 map depicting Physics as a continent, with rivers corresponding to its principal branches. From dabacon.org. Fiction Island and a rough layout of the genres, from Jasper Fforde, 2011:
Posted in fiction, literature, physics
Tagged books, genre fiction, genres, History of physics, maps
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Albert Einstein’s birthday
“Imagine for a moment what the general opinion will be fifty years from now if the name Einstein does not appear on the list of Nobel laureates.” M. Brillouin, in a letter to the Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1921. Albert … Continue reading
Hubble Telescope celebrates 25 years of observations
“With the slow fascination of fear, he lifted himself on one arm and turned his eyes toward the blood-curdling blackness of the window. Through it shone the Stars! Not Earth’s feeble thirty-six hundred Stars visible to the eye; Lagash was … Continue reading
Posted in photos, physics
Tagged History of physics, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble telescope, stars
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