ReadingsGeneralHere is the story of the "You Are Star Dust" poster."Nuclear Astrophysics 2007" (NA2007) was a conference held in July 2007 at Caltech. NA2007 celebrated 50 years since the publication of the seminal works of Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle, and A. G. W. Cameron. You can download the presentations of many distinquished astrophysicists including Geof Burbidge. Burbidge's presentation is also available on arXiv. StarsSubramanyan Chandrasekhar On Stars, Their Evolution and Their StabilityJohn N. Bahcall on How the Sun Shines Stars Nuclear ReactionsJames Chadwick on The Neutron and Its PropertiesThe discoveries of cosmic radiation and the positron Ernest Lawrence on The Evolution of the Cyclotron Hans Bethe on Energy Production in Stars William Fowler on Experimental and Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics; the Quest for the Origin of the Elements B2FH E. Margaret Burbidge, G. R. Burbidge, William A. Fowler, & F. Hoyle, Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, Rev.Mod.Phys. 29, 547-650 (1957) SupernovaeSupernovaeSupernovae Remnants EinsteinAlbert Einstein 1923 Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity. See, especially, pages 483 and 484.Einstein 1949 Reply to Criticisms. See, especially, Einstein's remarks concerning the essays by E. A. Milne, G. Lemaitre, and L. Infeld as concerns the cosmological problem. FriedmannAlexandr FriedmannТропп, Э.А., Френкель, В.Я., и Чернин, А.Д. 1988, Александр Александрович Фридман (Москва: Наука) The English translation of this book is Tropp, E.A., Frenkel, V.Ya., & Chernin, A.D. 1993, Alexander A. Friedmann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) SchrödingerSchrödinger, E. 1939, Physica 6, 899 The Proper Vibrations of the Expanding UniverseSchrödinger, E. 1956, Expanding Universes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) HubbleEdwin HubbleHubble, E. 1929, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 3 A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among Extra-Galactic Nebulae SumnerSumner, W.Q. 1994, ApJ 429, 491 On the Variation of Vacuum Permittivity in Friedmann UniversesSumner, W.Q., & Sumner, D.Y. 2000, “Nauka i Obrazovaniye,” 4/5, 113-116. Gorno Altaysk, Russia Coevolution of Quantum Wave Functions and the Friedmann Universe Sumner, W.Q., & Vityaev, E.E. 2000, Hubble Redshift Sumner, W.Q. 2005, On the variation of the fine-structure constant in Friedmann Universes This contains a high quality fit to modern redshift data. Free Falling Backwards describes how I came to understand that the universe is collapsing and will end in about 15 billion years. It doesn't use mathematics and describes a bit about life in Uzbekistan and Kittitas. 12 Haiku with Photographs from Chirchik, Uzbekistan. There are hidden links in my head in the kitchen and in the flying swans in the last picture. It may be a challenge to understand President Lyndon Johnson's Texas accent in the first link. It is one of his secret White House recordings where he says "Course, if you start running from the communists, they may just chase you into your own kitchen." Our son Sasha is the boy in this link. |