LAT In Orbit

My friend John worked on the Large Area Telescope, part of the GLAST spacecraft which rode into orbit on a Delta rocket earlier today. The LAT will look at a large swath of space, detecting gamma ray bursts from exploding stars and other cataclysms. And yes, people use wikis for these projects.

“What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?”

John Archibald Wheeler, contemporary of Einstein and Bohr, died this past Sunday. When he was at the University of Texas, he taught a non-major survey course on relativity and quantum mechanics. It was one of the best classes I took there. Professor Wheeler was witty, patient and a great teacher. Every lesson was designed to [...]