Comments on: Don’t panic!

By: JessM

JessM — Tue, 17 May 2005 05:37:32 +0000

Well, we’ll hear the “AIEEEEEE! WHAT’S THE HECK IS THAT BIG BLACK THING?”….

*laughs at “closeup of black hole” picture*

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 May 2005 16:33:30 +0000

If scientists create a black hole in a lab and it ISN’T benign… we won’t hear about it at all.

By: Zimbel42

Zimbel42 — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:58:07 +0000

I’m a litle disappointed that you didn’t read the draft article that this high-level news article was based on:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0501/0501068.pdf
If the author (Horatiu Nastase) is correct, this has large implications for the testability of string theory.

By: Ben Lillie

Ben Lillie — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:33:36 +0000

I tried posting links to my favorite astronomy-ish blogs (aside from this one of course ), but the spam filter ate it. So, I’ll let you do the googling:

Sean Carroll at preposterousuniverse is a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.

Mark Trodden at orangequark does cosmology and particle physics in Syracuse.

The Quantum Diaries site has blogs from a number of scientists for the World Year of Phycis. They’re mostly particle people, but a few are in Cosmology/Astrophysics.

On a more general science note the editors of Scientific American have a blog that they comment on occasionally.

Also, the Panda’s Thumb could be called “Bad Evolution”, great site.

Hopefully there was some new information for you in there somewhere.

By: Wolfgang Draxinger

Wolfgang Draxinger — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:01:12 +0000

I’ve read about this in the webnews of german tech magazine publisher Heise.

However my first thought was: You loosers, I’ve a block hole in my bathroom since years. But somehow it has specialized in sucking single sox, but I’m still not sure if this singularity is a bug or a feature of my washing machine

By: Michael Baker

Michael Baker — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:36:23 +0000

“Closeup of a Black Hole,” that’s just about the funniest pic I’ve ever seen… right up there with “A Closeup of the Horizon.” Keep up the good work BA!

By: Ben Lillie

Ben Lillie — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:45:08 +0000

It’s not Astronomy blogs exactly, but you might like to check out the whole quantum diaries site:

http://interactions.org/quantumdiaries/

They’ve gotten a bunch of high-energy phyicists and cosmologists to blog about life and science, as part of the world year of physics.

Also, one of my favorite all-around blogs is cosmologist Sean Carroll’s:

http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/