The Learned Astronomer

17Jan07

I’m observing tonight.
Gnarly old physicists like to caution children that astronomy is not all fun & stargazing – that, in fact, nobody looks at stars these days, or at swirly galaxies, or really at anything celestial or most things on earth. There is no LOOKING. There are only COMPUTERS.
Which is not true. There’s actually a [...]

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Hokay.

17Jan07

So here I am.
I? I’m a hapless MIT undergrad – let’s say I’m a junior. I think physics is just about totally awesome. Because, well, I don’t know. It just makes me happy. Sometimes I’ll leave a lecture or enter lab with a weird visceral joy – it’s like knowing a really good secret, like [...]

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