http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/31/nasas-wrong-stuff/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:46:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/31/nasas-wrong-stuff/#comment-51805 Griffin Apologizes - Asymptotia Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:58:28 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/31/nasas-wrong-stuff/#comment-51805 [...] Interestingly, NASA’s chief administrator, Michael Griffin, apologized for his somewhat bizarre remarks of last week. What remarks? The ones that (among other things) essentially sidelined a huge amount of the work people in his own organization are busy with. See here for a reminder. He made his apology at JPL on Monday: [...] [...] Interestingly, NASA’s chief administrator, Michael Griffin, apologized for his somewhat bizarre remarks of last week. What remarks? The ones that (among other things) essentially sidelined a huge amount of the work people in his own organization are busy with. See here for a reminder. He made his apology at JPL on Monday: [...]

]]> http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/31/nasas-wrong-stuff/#comment-50946 Wave It Like You Just Don’t Care - Asymptotia Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:41:31 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/31/nasas-wrong-stuff/#comment-50946 [...] I’ll end with some relevant things to look at. Above is part of the LIGO detector (photo from NASA’s website). Here’s a link to the LISA detector that everyone hopes will be built one day soon (if NASA does not hemorrhage too much money on pointless manned trips to Mars). Some movies of animations of objects we expect to produce gravitational wave signals: colliding neutron stars, here, two colliding black holes, here (with some information about the animation here). Two books: Kip Thorne’s wonderful Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy has some material on the topic (and so many others), and Marcia Bartusiak’s Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Spacetime is devoted entirely to the subject. (I have not read Harry Collins’ book Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves. Have you? If it’s a good source too, let us know.) [...] [...] I’ll end with some relevant things to look at. Above is part of the LIGO detector (photo from NASA’s website). Here’s a link to the LISA detector that everyone hopes will be built one day soon (if NASA does not hemorrhage too much money on pointless manned trips to Mars). Some movies of animations of objects we expect to produce gravitational wave signals: colliding neutron stars, here, two colliding black holes, here (with some information about the animation here). Two books: Kip Thorne’s wonderful Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy has some material on the topic (and so many others), and Marcia Bartusiak’s Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Spacetime is devoted entirely to the subject. (I have not read Harry Collins’ book Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves. Have you? If it’s a good source too, let us know.) [...]

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