Updated October 28, 2024: I added information about the new companion website for the book! We’ve launched! While the official release date of the book is October 31 (aka Dark Matter Day … aka Halloween!), it is now available to order. Copies should start arriving on or about October 31 […]
Writing
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Jodi and I were very fortunate to be able to get a lot of feedback on our book draft for “The Dark Matter Discoverer’s Guidebook”. We finished receiving all the feedback a few weeks ago. This was the scariest part of the writing process. You spend so much time with […]
Three years in the making, “The Dark Matter Discoverer’s Guidebook” – a labour of love and intellectual pursuit – is almost ready for publication. The goal is to have this published and available on or around Dark Matter Day (October 31). This book was born from a pandemic delay, a […]
I recently had the humbling experience of officiating the second wedding of my life. The first was my sister’s wedding. The second, just a week ago, was that of my most recent PhD student, Chris. This one was, however, unique: I had to do some writing for the ceremony. Apparently, […]
The pastor was prayin’For sinners unpracticed,Preparin’ communion(Except for us Baptists) And I’m in the second pew ready for healin’When a voice next to me says “We should be wheelin’;The ERs the place that I want to beOn Christmas Eve, o brother, why can’t you see?” We’ll go to the ERAnd […]
Pop on over to Goodreads’s Science Book Club, where “Reality in the Shadows (or) What the Heck’s the Higgs?” is the book of the month for discussion in the forum! Frank Blitzer, Jim Gates, and I are available to chat about the book, about the science behind the book, and […]
When I joined the existing co-authors of “Reality in the Shadows” to contribute to the book, I hesitated. It had nothing to do with them. Jim Gates is renowned in my field for his intellectual prowess, considered a founder of key ideas in the theory of supersymmetry. Frank Blitzer is […]
In our book, “Reality in the Shadows,” we devote an entire chapter to the phenomenon of the black hole (“A Shadow Where No Light Shines“). We dealt in things that are known – for instance, that black holes exist and that they can be detected using their effects on the […]
Sometimes, scientific fields move fast. They move so fast, even three authors working with a really responsive and excellent publisher who has fully embraced “print-on-demand” as a business model cannot keep up. Such is the reality of the new astronomy, gravitational wave astronomy. The LIGO, and then the VIRGO, instruments […]
In our book, “Reality in the Shadows,” Jim Gates, Frank Blitzer, and I take a look at the history of the Higgs particle, see the day the discovery was announced through the eyes of one of the co-authors (me), and explore what the Higgs might be besides being just another […]
“Reality in the Shadows” is a book that required years to write. I was the latest addition to the creative team, but it is very much a shared vision between three co-authors each with different perspectives on the subject matter. Jim Gates has a keen mathematical mind and delights in […]
A human being is the sum of the influences of all their caregivers and bullies, successes and failures, dreams and fears… all bound together by that something special each of us has inside, that thing that ultimately makes each of us unique. I am no different. As a teenager, and […]