American Institute of Physics Announces Winners of the 2011 AIP Science ...
Newswise - College Park, Maryland (October 14, 2011) - theories that predict the end times and the quest for a pioneering astronomer to find distant cousins of the Earth are the stories honored with this year's American Institute of Physics ( AIP) Science Communication Awards.
George Musser will receive the award in science writing for her article "Could End Time?", Published in the journal Scientific American. Oransky Vicki Wittenstein will receive the award in the category of children's book Planet Hunter Geoff Marcy and the search for other lands.
A clear and engaging style, ambitious subjects, and excellent science content were some of the traits that won these pieces top praise from the selection committee.
“These outstanding stories present complex science topics in entertaining and thought-provoking ways,” said Catherine O’Riordan, AIP vice president for Physics Resources. “Both Musser and Wittenstein really captured the universal excitement of physics and astronomy through their writing, and we are pleased to recognize them for their excellent work.”
The winners will each receive an award of $3,000, an inscribed Windsor chair, and a certificate of recognition. The awards will be presented at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, in Austin, Texas.
Science Writing Award
That time could have a beginning is mind-blowing enough, but how could time possibly have an end? What does that even mean? How can there be a moment without another moment that comes after it? The idea violates our deepest intuitions about the world, and George Musser explores these and related themes in his Scientific American article about the physics of time as we understand it – and don’t.
For millennia, the end of time has been a conversation-stopper, and even today, researchers still face the same basic dilemma. General relativity predicts that time ends in spacetime singularities, yet most physicists take this as a failing of the theory rather than a real feature of nature. Musser’s article "Could Time End?" delves into several research programs that are not directly connected and finds in them a common theme: they treat the end of time as a process rather than an abrupt event. Time might lose its many attributes one by one – a picture that is natural if spacetime is emergent rather than a fundamental ingredient of nature. Such a conception of time might resolve our conflict in understanding.
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His first trip was in June 1936, when he attended the Seattle-Victoria Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. At this conference he met many American and Canadian astronomers, some becoming Herzberg's close friends.
From 1994 to 1998, Musser served as editor of Mercury magazine and of The Universe in the Classroom tutorial series at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He then went to Scientific American, where his primary focus has been space science,
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