Entries from September 2009

September 27, 2009

My Gravity paper accepted for publication

I’ve just got notice that my gravity paper, titled The force of gravity in Schwarzschild and Gullstrand-Painleve coordinates has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Modern Physics D, with only a very minor modification.
I’m kind of surprised by this, given that the paper proposes a new theory of gravity. I was expecting [...]

September 5, 2009

The Young Headhunter Returns

I visited the University of Washington bookstore a week ago and they had a copy of the new translation of Táin_Bó_Cúailnge (The Tain) by Ciaran Carson on sale for $5.98 in hardback, so of course I bought it.

If you’re unaware of this classic, I’ll type in a page. For context, Cu Chulainn is returning to [...]