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Cosmic Horizons: April 2015
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Saturday, 4 April 2015. Musings on an academic career - Part 2. Now, I am sure that some of you reading this, especially the more junior researchers of you, will be thinking "Well, duh! But, in fact, I think this goes to the heart of many of the touted problems with regards to academia, and it's a problem of our own making, and I mean all of us. A Life in Research. You could learn ...
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Cosmic Horizons: January 2015
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Sunday, 25 January 2015. The Constant Nature of the Speed of light in a vacuum. It has been a while, but I do have an excuse! I have been finishing up a book on the fine-tuning of the Universe and hopefully it will be published (and will become a really big best seller? In 2015. But time to rebirth the blog, and what a better way to start that a gripe. Why would one be shocked?
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cosmology question of the week: inflationary perturbations
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Cosmology question of the week. CQW is an educational resource for theoretical physics and astrophysics, field theory, relativity and cosmology. we post a new question every wednesday for students to get and for teachers to stay in shape. Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Guest post by Shaun Hotchkiss (from the blog trenches of discovery. Bonus question: where's the first minimum of $x { sinh(x)}$, $x 0$? May 9, 2013 at 10:16 PM. Spirou asked me to provide an answer. so here it is:. Therefore, over the entire 5 or...
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Cosmic Horizons: Scientists Have Figured Out What Colour The Universe Is
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Thursday, 6 November 2014. Scientists Have Figured Out What Colour The Universe Is. What's old is new again? Over at Business Insider Australia. We are told (with some lovely language) that Scientists have figured out what colour the Universe is. You've got to love a new and interesting astronomy story, but alas, the result is rather, well, beige (I refuse to say latte). With Karl ...
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Cosmic Horizons: Shooting relativistic fish in a rational barrel
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Saturday, 28 February 2015. Shooting relativistic fish in a rational barrel. I need to take a breather from grant writing, which is consuming almost every waking hour in between all of the other things that I still need to do. So see this post as a cathartic exercise. What makes a scientist? Is it the qualification? What you do day-to-day? These are not a new phenomenon, but were o...
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Cosmic Horizons: The Constant Nature of the Speed of light in a vacuum
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Sunday, 25 January 2015. The Constant Nature of the Speed of light in a vacuum. It has been a while, but I do have an excuse! I have been finishing up a book on the fine-tuning of the Universe and hopefully it will be published (and will become a really big best seller? In 2015. But time to rebirth the blog, and what a better way to start that a gripe. Why would one be shocked?
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Cosmic Horizons: May 2014
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Thursday, 29 May 2014. Misconceptions About the Universe. Over on youtube, Veritasium. Has a nice discussion of Misconceptions about the Universe. I like it, especially as I was the consultant cosmologist :). A little look down the comments tho, and we see several claims that what Derek says is not correct. Here's a little excerpt. Now, does the Hubble sphere grow or shrink as time...
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cosmology question of the week: July 2015
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Cosmology question of the week. CQW is an educational resource for theoretical physics and astrophysics, field theory, relativity and cosmology. we post a new question every wednesday for students to get and for teachers to stay in shape. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. CQW holiday project: gravitational field of a cube. Show that the lowest two non-vanishing multipole components of the gravitational field of a cubical planet are the monopole and the octupole. what's the next-lowest non-vanishing multipole?
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Cosmic Horizons: Musings on an academic career - Part 2
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Saturday, 4 April 2015. Musings on an academic career - Part 2. Now, I am sure that some of you reading this, especially the more junior researchers of you, will be thinking "Well, duh! But, in fact, I think this goes to the heart of many of the touted problems with regards to academia, and it's a problem of our own making, and I mean all of us. A Life in Research. You could learn ...
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Cosmic Horizons: March 2015
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My personal take on what's going on within our Event Horizon. Mostly astronomical, often cosmological, usually quite grumpy. Sunday, 29 March 2015. Musings on academic careers - Part 1. Now, there may be some lessons below for how to become a permanent academic, but there is no magic formula. But realising some of these lessons on what is at play may help. Some of you may have heard me harp on about some of these issues before, but hopefully there is some new stuff as well. OK. Let's begin. When they are...