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DIED. SHIRLEY STRICKLAND DE LA HUNTY, 78, the first woman to win consecutive Olympic titles, in 1948, '52 and '56, including three gold medals in sprinting and hurdling for Australia; in Perth. Also a mother and nuclear physicist, she chased rabbits while growing up on her family farm but took up running seriously only a couple of years before her first Olympics...
...time-traveling exploits of Back to the Future duo Marty McFly and his DeLorean may not be such a stretch after all. In his new book, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, theoretical physicist Brian Greene ’84 suggests that time travel and teleportation are well within the realms of quantum mechanics, a conceptual framework of physics that emerged in the 1930s...
Greene may also be the only person on earth who can discuss supersymmetry and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack in the same conversation. In his occasional visits outside the realm of physics, he revels in music and theatre. If he weren’t a physicist, he says his dream would be to perform music, though he’s not convinced he’s very good at it. Such a predisposition towards the performing arts may have taken root because of the influence of Greene’s composer father. While at Oxford, Greene participated in improvisational theater...
...scenario," says John Hoffman, a physicist at the University of Texas at Dallas who is working on a 2007 Mars probe, "is to send rockets up two years before people go, then robotically make water for an 18-month stay and fuel for the return. Only when it's 100% done do you send humans." For mission planners--not to mention astronauts--spooked by the idea of arriving on Mars and finding that the fuel and water tanks have sprung a leak, redundant tanks could store twice as much as needed and provide some margin of safety...
...Innovators' joy in their work is plain to see. Says writer-reporter Unmesh Kher, who penned the profile of physicist Thundat: "A part of his charm derives from the obvious fact that he isn't so much working in his laboratories as he is having fun. He perks up with boyish glee whenever he finds some reflection of his technology in nature--in the cantilever-like tactile sensilla of ants, for instance, or the clusters of sensory hairs in the human inner ear." We believe that when you read about the Innovators this week and in the months ahead...