Tag: Education

• A scientific love affair

  When I was in sixth grade or so, I read Frozen Star by George Greenstein. I’m fairly sure that was my first real exposure to modern astrophysics. My family owned Our Universe, a lovely picture book by Roy A. Gallant from National Geographic, which provided a pretty thorough overview of the state of astronomy at […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 7, 2013

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Personal Musings

  black holes, Education, general relativity