Which of the authors of "Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour" advocated for the Doomsday Argument?
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Welcome to the Universe Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour is a popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott, based on an introductory astrophysics course they co-taught at Princeton University. The book was published by the Princeton University Press on September 20, 2016.
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J. Richard Gott John Richard Gott III (born February 8, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. He is known for developing and advocating two cosmological theories: Time travel and the Doomsday argument.
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Chris Lintott Christopher John "Chris" Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at Oxford University. Lintott is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomy to a wider audience. He is the primary presenter of the BBC series "The Sky at Night", having previously been co-presenter with Sir Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. Lintott co-authored "Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe" with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May.
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David Mathison David Mathison is an author, blogger, speaker, entrepreneur, new media activist, and event producer. He is best known for his book, "Be The Media", an encyclopedic guide to how individuals, organizations, and non-profits can use new media platforms to become content creators and distributors and reach audiences previously reserved for giant corporations.
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Barbara Marx Hubbard Barbara Marx Hubbard (born Barbara Marx; December 22, 1929) is a futurist, author and public speaker. She is credited with the concepts of ‘The Synergy Engine’ and the 'birthing' of humanity.
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Ultimate Comics: Doomsday Ultimate Comics: Doomsday is a metaseries collection of three 4-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics. All three series ("Ultimate Enemy", "Ultimate Mystery" and "Ultimate Doom") are set in the Ultimate Marvel universe, and are written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Rafa Sandoval.
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Steven Goddard Steven Goddard (pseudonym for Tony Heller) is a blogger and the publisher of "Real Science," a website he established to assert that concerns over anthropogenic global warming are exaggerated. Before establishing his own blog, Goddard built his reputation as a challenger to anthropogenic climate change theories through frequent postings on the Watts Up with That? blog. Goddard wrote pseudonymously until 2014 when he revealed his true real identity on his blog. He has a BS in geology from Arizona State University and a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University.
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Nibiru cataclysm The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) which certain groups believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event usually refer to this object as "Planet X" or "Nibiru". The idea that a planet-sized object will collide with or closely pass by Earth in the near future is not supported by any scientific evidence and has been rejected by astronomers and planetary scientists as pseudoscience and an Internet hoax.
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Space and survival Space and survival refers to the idea that the long-term survival of the human species and civilization requires proper use of the resources of outer space and the need for space colonization and space science. The concept posits that inaction could lead to human extinction. A related observation is that limited time and resources may be available for the colonization of space. Various scenarios for human survival have been discussed in science and popular culture, particularly humanity's prospects after catastrophic events in the solar system and factors that could help or hinder survival.
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Doomsday Clock (comics) Doomsday Clock is an upcoming superhero comic book limited series published by DC Comics. The series is being written by DC's chief creative officer Geoff Johns with art from penciller Gary Frank and colorist Brad Anderson.
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International Halley Watch Halley's Comet, named after English astronomer Edmund Halley who first demonstrated its periodicity, returns to the vicinity of the Sun and Earth approximately every 76 years. Since comets are believed to be the most primordial objects in the solar system, their study is of great importance to planetary science. At the time of the 1986 return (technically, "apparition") of the comet, astronomical telescopes and related instrumentation were vastly more sensitive than for any previous apparition. Consequently, the International Halley Watch (IHW) was organized to stimulate, standardize, collect, and archive observations of the comet.
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Orion's Arm Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA) is a multi-authored online science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and Anders Sandberg and further co-authored by many people since. Anyone can contribute articles, stories, artwork, or music to the website. A large mailing list exists, in which members debate aspects of the world they are creating, discussing additions, modifications, issues arising, and work to be done.
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Science Fiction Foundation The Science Fiction Foundation is a Registered Charity established 1970 in England by George Hay and others. Its purpose is to "promote science fiction and bring together those who read, write, study, teach, research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world." Science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin were founding patrons; current patrons are Le Guin, Neil Gaiman and Professor David Southwood.
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Wonders of the Universe (book) Wonders of the Universe is a 2011 book by the theoretical physicists Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen. The book is about cosmology and the universe, and is explained in a way that is accessible to a general reader. The book is based on a series with the same name "Wonders of the Universe".
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World of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The world of "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" is a fictional universe created by Alan Moore in the comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", where all of the characters and events from literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. The world the characters inhabit is one more technologically advanced than our own, but also home to the strange and supernatural. Beyond the comic itself, the world of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is expanded upon by supplemental prose material, including "The New Traveller's Almanac", "Allan and the Sundered Veil", and the documents from the "".
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Steven E. Jones Steven Earl Jones (born March 25, 1949) is an American physicist. Among scientists, Jones became known for his long research on muon-catalyzed fusion and geo-fusion. Jones is also known for his association with 9/11 controversies. Jones has claimed that mere airplane crashes and fires could not have resulted in so rapid and complete a fall of the World Trade Center Towers and 7 World Trade Center, suggesting controlled demolition instead, based upon his own experiments. In late 2006, some time after Brigham Young University (BYU) officials placed him on paid leave, he elected to retire in an agreement with BYU. Jones continued research and writing following his early retirement from BYU, including a paper published in Europhysics News in August 2016.
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Doomsday Deck Doomsday Deck is an original novel based on the U.S. television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
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Jo Marchant Jo Marchant is a freelance journalist specializing in science and history. After gaining a BSc in genetics from Leicester University and a PhD in microbiology she became a science writer, and is the author of "Decoding the Heavens", an exploration of the history and significance of the Antikythera mechanism, "The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy", and "Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body" (shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016). A former editor of the science journal "Nature" and opinion editor at "New Scientist" magazine in London, she has written for "The Guardian" and "The Economist".
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Adam Frank Adam Frank (born 1 August 1962) is a United States physicist, astronomer, and writer. His research focuses on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution. His popular writing has focused on issues of science in its cultural context, including issues of science and religion and the role of technology in the human experience of time. He is a co-founder of NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog.
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Marshall Savage Marshall Thomas Savage (born 1955), is an advocate of space travel who wrote "" and founded the Living Universe Foundation, which was designed to make plans for stellar exploration over the next 1,000 years.
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Eric Schulman Eric Schulman is an American astronomer and science humorist. Schulman received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He is the author of "A Briefer History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Big Mac" (1999) and has been a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Improbable Research since 1998. He sometimes uses the pen name E. Robert Schulman when writing science humor articles. Schulman was the first "Armchair Astrophysics" columnist for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's "Mercury" Magazine (he was succeeded by Christopher Wanjek in 2001).
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Sticky bead argument In general relativity, the sticky bead argument is a simple thought experiment designed to show that gravitational radiation is indeed predicted by general relativity, and can have physical effects. These claims were not widely accepted prior to about 1955, but after the introduction of the bead argument, any remaining doubts soon disappeared from the research literature.