Black holes to the rescue
We contine with an explanation of why Stephen Hawking is famous among physicists.
Hawking radiation – II
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Hawking radiation – I
The fame of a physicist
Prof. Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist, died this month. But why was he famous?
Only a test
How it’s done
Telescopes and databases
Astronomy changes. So do the kind of people who become astronomers.
Knowing what you know
Learning for yourself
Cutting it short
Learning and relearning
A grand memory for forgetting
Learning in compartments
There is so much to take in that we divide up our task subject by subject, rarely allowing something we’ve learned in one class (or other environment) to leak over into another. This is not, in general, a good thing.
Relative paradoxes
A note on the sociology of science
A recent article on one of the great scientists in the field of General Relativity prompted our astronomer to reflect on stereotypes in science, and how sometimes they can be very wrong.