Featured article out today in the New Yorker about a class on existential risks taught at UChicago by the inimitable Daniel Holz (@decohere) and myself this spring: https://t.co/fREGqhbPfI
The Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight. @decohere and former executive director Kennette Benedict join @JBWolfsthal and @heatherwilly to share what actually goes into the decision to set the time, and how panicked should we really be.
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An article about the Are We Doomed? class I taught with James Allen Evans. The material seems to be ever more relevant. We’ll be teaching it again Winter quarter, and hope to place all of the material online and freely available. https://t.co/zaDtap1JRV
Excellent article by @majohnso . Perhaps the first time that scientists worried that their advances could doom humanity. But certainly not the last time. https://t.co/spabp8Fv8y
Did physicists worry there was even a tiny possibility that detonating the first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site in New Mexico might destroy Earth? This comes up in the movie "Oppenheimer." I have a story on the actual history in today's Post. https://t.co/FHt60ORxfS
The 4th observing run of our gravitational-wave detectors officially starts today!! Stay tuned for lots and lots of black holes. And neutron stars too! @LIGO
Welcome to the fourth observing run! #O4IsHere
O4 will last 20 months, with @ego_virgo and @KAGRA_PR joining us in the run. We expect the detection rate will be roughly twice in our past observing run
More news linked from https://t.co/kHnyuP8I2I #ObservingRun4
Please join us to watch and discuss the movie Fail Safe at the Siskel Center. As the announcement says, “We recognize this is a bummer. Complimentary popcorn will be provided with every ticket purchase—and drink specials will be offered!” https://t.co/RrgQabEfdH @BulletinAtomic
A new paper on gravitational lensing of gravitational-wave sources, led by Mesut Caliskan (started while he was a UChicago undergraduate) with @jmezquiagabravo and Otto Hannuksela. It's surprisingly difficult to distinguish lensing and (bad) luck! https://t.co/O0KdBkzQlr
The latest issue of the #LIGOMagazine is out! This one includes lots of @LIGO@ego_virgo@KAGRA_PR excitement for O4 (we plan to turn back on in May!). It also includes an article on the collaboration's carbon footprint.
Issue 22 of the #LIGOMagazine is now live! In this issue we hear about the preparations & hopes of our analysis & commissioning teams as we look forward to Observing Run 4 & consider our role in global climate change. @LIGO@ego_virgo@KAGRA_PR
Read free https://t.co/uLyAwCE21F
Mike Warren was an amazing friend and collaborator. He was one of a kind. Helped invent beowulf clusters (with numerous Gordon Bell prizes to prove it). Also expert at mountain rescue, bicycle racing, guitar, poker, pool, etc. So many happy memories. https://t.co/txywCFbHEQ
Fun, fresh paper led by Reed Essick, asking whether GW sources are random on the sky. Although data is consistent with isotropy, we find an excess in the direction of constellation Equuleus. @GWastrology Note: title is pun intended. https://t.co/M1HHPO6XpL @farrwill@mayaKfish
Congratulations to Yiqi Xie on publication of "Breaking bad degeneracies with Love relations". We explore using the neutron star equation-of-state to improve gravitational-wave cosmology. And who can resist a New Mexico-inflected pun? https://t.co/gOTCxtwiqh
UN Secretary-General @AntonioGuterres tells us “the Doomsday Clock is a global alarm clock.” and “We need to wake up—and get to work.” We couldn’t have said it better. @francoisdm@BulletinAtomic https://t.co/Lj7e3xHYvZ