The Princeton
Pulsar
Group Web Page - "A web site for pulsar addicts"
The Jodrell Bank Pulsar
Group Web Page - "A web site for the truly
pulsar addicted"
| Date Due | Number of pages |
|---|---|
| Th. 12 Oct | 4-5 |
| Th. 26 Oct | 4-5 |
| Th. 09 Nov | 4-5 |
| Th. 30 Nov |
5-7 |
| Bios: such as Einstien, Newton, Hubble, Chandrasekhar and much more |
|---|
| Milli-second Pulsars |
| Pulsars as good clocks |
| Quantum Gravity |
| Theory of Every Thing |
| Time Travel |
| Time Dialation |
| Bi-Polar Out Flow compared to black hole produced jets |
| Do Black Holes Exist? |
| Twin Pardox |
| Magnetars |
| Anomolous X-ray Pulsars |
| The Black Hole Pardigm for Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Neutron star Formation |
| Black Hole Formation |
| NASA's support of Black Hole reseach |
| NSF's support of Black Hole reseach |
| LIGO/LISA (experiments to find gravitational radiation) |
| Have Hulst & Taylor already proved grav. rad. exists, so
why bother? |
| Is
Time Quantized ? |
Here are some general comments in place of an opening lecture
First, Astronomy is probably the oldest science.
Anybody who has looked up
at the sky has gazed in wonderment. Driven both by curiosity and
religion,
man continued to study the sky. There are some pretty important
religious
based questions that we address, such as exactly where did man and
the Earth
stand compared to the Universe. On the curiosity side,
we are simply driven to learn more. For, even as we learn more,
and we
delve
into the limitless universe, we often uncover new questions as
we answer old ones. The growth in our knowledge of physics in the past
100
years has allowed us to understand a great deal about the stars,
planets,
galaxies and the Universe at large. You, as future leaders and
taxpayers will have to answer the
question of how much funding to give to astronomy and astrophysics and
why. Two of my goals to teach you something about black holes and
neutron stats, and also to teach you enough so that you will be
able to make educated
choices about future government funding of astrophysics. There is
another reason for you to take this course,
however, and that is to
learn how to think like a scientist. So stop to think a minute now,
what does
it mean to you when the TV reporter says "today scientists have
announced the
discovery of..." The use of the word scientist had a certain implied
reliability, right? Why is that? And why do most universities require
that you take a science class? This is because you are supposed
to
receive some training to work like a scientist, right?
Thus, I hope you will benefit from this class not only in gaining
writing and presentation practice, but also you will learn about
what it means to work like a scientist.
Here are some of the things that I hope will stick with you:
(1) Be methodical and take careful notes: since this is the is the art of making reproducible results, e.g., if you tell somebody exactly how you did something, they should be able to repeat it and get the same result.
2) Think deductively and critically. For example, if a marketing person calls you and tells you that if you follow their advice, you will become rich... Think about it...Why doesn't the person on the end of the line just follow their own advice?
(3) Avoid as often as you can qualitative descriptions versus quantitative descriptions, e.g. it's a long way to Tipperary. What does "a long way" mean?
(4) Always have an idea of where you are going, why
are you going there, and
a schedule for achieving those goals. No scientific project that takes
more than a few hours or days can be done on time and within budget
without
systematic planning, project justification, cost projections, etc..
Posted Reading
material
Professional Presentation Pointer I
Professional Presentation
Pointer 2
Shakespeare
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