I've blown the dust off Asymptotic Essence, my gaming and fiction blog. It sat dormant for four years but I'm putting some new stuff on it. Check it out. Add it to your RSS feed.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
New(ish) Gaming Blog!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Hypericon Gaming Schedule
The Hyperion 2009 game schedule has been posted. We've also added some new guests.
Hypericon 5! June 5 - 7. Nashville, TN.
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
News From The Future: Green Lasers
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Green lasers!
The advance will allow for laser-based video displays that are small enough to fit in a cell phone.Read the rest.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
"The Discovery of the Accelerating Universe" -- Saturday at 10AM PDT in Second Life
“Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy”, in association with MICA (www.mica-vw.org)
Saturday, April 4, 10AM SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/StellaNova/213/210/32
The Discovery of the Accelerating Universe
In 1998, two teams of astronomers observing supernovae discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. The speaker, Dr. Knop, was on one of the two teams, working with Saul Perlmutter. In this talk, I will describe just how it is that you can measure the expansion history of the Universe by observing distant exploding stars, and what surprising things we saw in our results that indicated to us that the expansion of the Universe was in fact accelerating. At the end, I'll briefly mention some things about "dark energy," the mysterious substance that is causing this surprising universal acceleration.
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