Jumping the Timestream – A Note from 08-09-2012

Because no one can be certain about one’s own ability to participate in the future, I have a couple of ideas in the works that I’d like to post to the future just in case I (for some reason) don’t get around to it before then.  First amongst these is this, an idea Chris Hackman and I […]

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The Antimatter Plot Thickens…

I realize it’s been egregiously silent here at the Astrowright blog for some time.  Apparently, I am not immune to the same disappointing (as a reader) dry spells experienced in/by so many other blogs I’ve followed during the years.  (With grad school, teaching at CSN, my day-job working for DOE, a side-business or two in flux, moonlighting the occasional and […]

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NASTAR: Day 1 – Sky High

[[NOTE: I apologize for the 1-day lag.  It’s also finals week in grad school.]] Today was truly extraordinary – the training more utilitarian than I could have imagined.  I’m still attempting to process it all. The day began with general introductions and a tour of the NASTAR Center along with the extensive onsite manufacturing facilities […]

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Ultimately, Time Travel is essential for Space Travel

Long-time readers may note that this blog bounces (veers?) between space-related content and time/temporal physics-related content.  Today, aside from admitting that (not surprisingly) the two topics are primary passions of mine, I’ll tell you why they’re related, and intimately so. It’s all Einstein’s fault. Put very simply, according to Relativity: When dealing with events in the universe, […]

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