As you may recall, two months ago UW physicist John Cramer was looking for contributions so that he could try to make light particles go backward in time.
Today, we learn from Tom Paulson's PI article that Cramer has received enough donations to go forward with his experiments — though he could still use more money.
(Kudos to Paulson (and Sytman and Boze) for publicizing this effort. I would add a suggestion for further reading on this subject, suitable for those who have not studied quantum mechanics, except that I don't know of any. The subject is difficult, and there is no getting around that.
Incidentally, as the article mentions, Cramer is also a science fiction author. I thought his book, Einstein's Bridge, was pretty good; among other things, it provided the most agreeable explanation for the 1992 Bush defeat that I have seen.)
Posted by Jim Miller at June 12, 2007 07:48 AM | Email Thishttp://www.deloreannorthwest.com/
You may have been serious and you may have been joking, but you mentioned "science fiction author" and then immediately in the same paragraph talk about a theory for the Bush 1992 defeat.
P.S. I probably won't read the book, but might if I see it in my book store.
Posted by: swatter on June 12, 2007 02:16 PM