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It has been an exciting day out here in Virginia—I’m sure our “earthquake” was all over national news.
We had a 1.8—hold on, we’ve been upgraded—a 2.0 earthquake (!) early this afternoon. The epicenter was within a one mile radius of Matt’s parents’ house, though only their dogs could tell you what really happened.
So, native [...]

The lunar eclipse tonight was as amazing as we expected. While I was in class, Allegra braved the below-freezing cold and snow flurries for over an hour and a half attempting to get pictures with our high-zoom camera and telephoto lens. Needless to say, once class was finished, I dashed home and took [...]

How exciting - scientists have discovered a double Einstein ring!!!

You might be thinking - what’s an Einstein ring? When two galaxies line up, the one in the front acts like a lens for the one in the back. From our perspective here on Earth, the light from the farther one is distorted and [...]

While Allegra and Grandma Price were off to Chawton, Grandpa Price, Pop-Pop, Mom, Dad, and I braved the typical London fog and headed to Greenwich to see the Royal Observatory and the National Maritime Museum. We headed to the London Bridge station and caught the overground train for a quick 7min ride to Greenwich.

After [...]

Matt again - So I caught this article a few weeks ago about the possibility that our dimension of time might collapse into a dimension of space. After thinking about it, I was disturbed. What does that even mean?
Coupled with reading about simultaneity and relativity in Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps in my History [...]