Word: lightman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While observers at the multi-mirror telescope in Arizona will study the ends of the visible universe, Alan Lightman, assistant professor of Astronomy, is now reaching for knowledge out at the brink of the unknowable. In his carpeted nine-by-twelve office, Lightman is doing theoretical studies of star patterns adjacent to black holes. Existing instruments cannot observe these patterns...
Because black holes emit no radiation, they can never be directly observed. Their existence may be deduced only from the extraordinary effects black holes have on nearby objects, outside the event horizon. Lightman is attempting to predict the influence of black holes upon the distribution of stars, anticipating the day when such stellar patterns can be observed...
...some reason, the Miscellany box tends to collect science announcements, which as a rule don't sound too exciting. Alan Lightman of the Center for Astrophysics is speaking on "Quasars and Collapsing Clusters" at the Cahners Theater of the Museum of Science at 8 p.m. on October 20--go right ahead if you want, but don't blame me. If I were you, I'd wait until November 10, when William Press, also of the Astrophysics Center, is speaking on "Gravity Waves and Black Holes...
...seen it grow from a small, quiet reading room to one of the largest journalistic research facilities in the world. Its 14 research librarians field more than 100,000 queries a year from Time Inc. people (53,000 last year from TIME alone). Presided over by Chief Librarian Benjamin Lightman, the library holds extensive microfilm records of TIME correspondents' dispatches, plus 500,000 highly specialized file folders containing countless millions of newspaper and magazine clippings (sample subjects: children's motels, underwater painting, women astronauts). There are also some 75,000 books, including all standard reference works and such...