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...imaginary time machine that takes advantage of an Einsteinian concept: that both space and time are distorted in the presence of very large masses or when objects are moving at speeds approaching the velocity of light. Gott is not the first to take this tack; in 1988 a Caltech physicist, Kip Thorne, and two colleagues constructed their own theoretical time machine and wrote about it in the same journal...
...Caltech machine involved travel through a wormhole, a bizarre object that physicists believe might exist at the core of a black hole. Under the infinite density and gravity at the black hole's center, space could be so profoundly warped that a tunnel would form, far narrower than a subatomic particle, that might reach to some distant part of the universe. Anyone or anything entering the tunnel would appear instantly at the other end and, under special circumstances, would essentially travel into the past...
...physicist who laid the intellectual groundwork for this now mainstream theory, Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann, long ago won the Nobel Prize. But it was not until last week that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored the men who first detected the existence of quarks. Americans Jerome Friedman, 60, and Henry Kendall, 63, of M.I.T., and Richard Taylor, 60, a Canadian working at Stanford, share the physics award for discoveries made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in the late 1960s...
...male student in the face with a well-aimed snowball, he and some buddies retaliated by handcuffing her to a urinal and photographing her in that humiliating situation. No one, including Dreyer, reported the incident, but when her father complained, Dreyer, who had previously talked of enrolling at Caltech, quit the academy...
...MacCready's fascination with flight, aircraft account for only a small fraction of the total business of AeroVironment Inc. The company, which he founded in 1971 with fellow Caltech aeronautical engineers Tombach and Peter Lissaman, derives most of its annual $17 million revenue from the monitoring and control of air pollution and hazardous wastes. One current contract, for example, involves determining the contribution of Arizona's giant coal-fired Navajo power plant to the haze that sometimes hampers visibility around the nearby Grand Canyon...