by Pamela | Jan 9, 2014 | Cosmology
I stumbled across a piece of beauty today… the universe, being relatively small, can’t seem to contain all my ideas, often, I think it’s far too small to fit both of us what we need is a multiverse full of quantum possibility and unloaded dice with...
by Pamela | Mar 10, 2010 | Astronomy, Beliefs, Cosmology, Personal
Tonight I co-gave the opening address at the Templeton Foundation supported Q3 conference on Cosmology and Theology. It was perhaps the most nerve wracking talk I’ve ever given. While I am a Christian, I must admit to being terrified of conservative Christians....
by Pamela | Feb 20, 2010 | Cosmology
Sometimes analogies just feel right. For instance, “as hard to find as a needle in a hay stack” is often a good way to describe trying to find a needed quote in a half-remembered book. The mental image and the actual task just fit. In physics, I sometimes...
by Pamela | Feb 14, 2008 | Astronomy, Cosmology
I’m still here, but it’s an exam week, so I bring you another guest blogger, Ethan Siegel, who knows way more about dark matter than I probably ever will (a theorist even!). Enjoy his guest post! This is Ethan from Starts With A Bang! over here at...
by Pamela | Jan 30, 2008 | Astronomy, Cosmology
This is apparently the post I wasn’t supposed to publish. I wrote it yesterday, and had it somehow utterly disappear from my HD after a crash. I then was writing it in wordpress and had Firefox crash on it before the first auto save… In a really cool press...
by Pamela | Nov 28, 2007 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Ok, so New Scientist is just not making my brain happy this week. I decided to forage around their website to see what was there (one of their editors, Maggie McKee, is a friendly soul I worked with at Astronomy and I wanted to see what’s she’s up to...