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Worth noting the authors, Henry Lin and Max Tegmark, are both astrophysicists. Among other things.
by Gargoyle 10y ago
Worth noting the authors, Henry Lin and Max Tegmark, are both astrophysicists. Among other things.
- spdustin 10y agoNot to nitpick, Max Tegmark is a cosmologist. I only recently learned the difference when I called a cosmologist friend an astrophysicist. Cosmology deals with the big stuff, almost philosophically, like: "where did the universe come from" and "what is the fate of the universe", while astrophysics deals with the nature of the things within, like: "how do stars form" and "what happens when black holes collide". Max is deeply invested in modeling, analysis and prediction software, and I suspect did the bulk of the work in the paper. Henry Lin is a student who is focused on astrophysics. He gave an interesting TED talk (http://www.ted.com/speakers/henry_lin http://www.ted.com/speakers/henry_lin) a few years back about studying distant galaxy clusters. Henry is energetic and almost viscerally inspired by the beauty of science and mathematics, such a wonderful quality! His voice is definitely in the prose of the paper.