Not to mention an astrophysics blogger.

I met Louise Riofrio last week at the conference in San Jose. She has a lot of posts, and pictures. And she likes to put herself in the pictures, for an "I was there" feel to it. Keep scrolling.

(Note to readers from the distant future--this is just a link to the blog, not a permalink, so you'll have to dig into the archives for the date of this post.)

She's also going on the blogroll.

I was curious and had some time to kill so I took a look. How to say this in the most inoffensive way possible? Read her GM=ct^1/3 “paper”. I wonder if she graduated or was ask to leave. The internet is a great thing, but be afraid, be very afraid.

Yeah, that's probably a nice way to put it.

She also improperly identified the Atlas w/ capsule in one of her pictures as a Falcon w/ Dragon. (The "Lockheed-Martin" on the background might have been a hint. That or the fact that it's clearly an Atlas.) Maybe it was a mistake uploading pictures, but it sure doesn't seem like it from the text.

That said, I'm always a fan of enthusiasm, and I'm glad she's writing.

“That said, I'm always a fan of enthusiasm, and I'm glad she's writing.”

Fair enough, but I don’t care for people giving themselves deceptive titles. She calls herself a research scientist. So she has an interest in science; great. I have an interest in art, but I don’t call myself an artist.

Hmmmm, darn! *scratches "Porn Star" off of business card*

A couple of us had dinner with Louise in Mountain View the other night and her theory does sound interesting. The gist as she explained it is that (c) is decreasing over time and this explains the evidence that is otherwise interpreted as an inflationary universe (when the universe expanded rapidly at the beginning of time after the big bang) as well as eliminating the necessity of dark matter (which by the way is only a theoretical construct as of this time).

Her theory is also testable. We should be able to devise an experiment to measure the decrease in (c) over time. (c) is the result of the permitivity of space over the suseptability of space. If these can be measured to change over time it would provide validation.

Her theory may not be right but it is testable, which is the fundamental premise of science.

Dennis

Brian, the equation is GM=tc^3.

I fell asleep while reading the physics, but she does look nice in a star trek security officer outfit.

lol at the anonymous commenter, the Atlas V is correctly recognized, you just have to read a bit further.

Why the hate?

lol at the anonymous commenter, the Atlas V is correctly recognized, you just have to read a bit further.

Dude, no it isn't. (At least not clearly.) She explicitly calls it a Falcon, and then later also mentions that there are some pictures of Altas above. The original identification of the Atlas as a Falcon was wrong,and it isn't corrected later.

Reading comprehension: work on it.

she does look nice in a star trek security officer outfit.

She does look nice, but that's an engineers outfit, security wore yellow like the outfit to the left. It is interesting that nearly all her poses have her left leg bent. She also apparently likes that uniform.