SIERRA COLLEGE
ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT

Cool Papers

• ER1
• ER2
• Runaway
• Flatland
• Flatland Interviews
• Wanderers
• Dynamic Solar System (Basic astronomy)
• Cruithne (A quasi-satellite) (Basic astronomy)
• Masset & Snellgrove (1999): Solar systems(Basic astronomy)
• Hansen (2009): Solar systems(Basic astronomy)
• Origin of neutrino mass(Basic astronomy)
  
  
• Leavitt (1908) original Cepheid paper(Distance ladder)
• Hubble (1929) original paper(Distance ladder)
• Faber & Jackson (1976) original paper(Distance ladder)
• Tully & Fisher (1977) original paper(Distance ladder)
  
  
• Einstein (1905) photoelectric effect(Special relativity)
• Einstein (1905) Brownian motion [German] [English](Special relativity)
• Einstein (1905) mass-energy equation [German] [English](Special relativity)
• Einstein (1905) Special Relativity [German] [English](Special relativity)
  
  
• News on BICEP2--Physicsworld (Inflation)
• News on BICEP2--Sky & Telescope (Inflation)
  
  
• Rubin & Ford (1970) original Andromeda paper(Dark matter)
  
  
• Salaris et al. (1997) cluster ages(Dark energy)
• Riess et al. (1998) original dark energy paper(Dark energy)
• Schmidt et al. (1998) original dark energy paper(Dark energy)
  
  
• Stephen Hawking on black holes--popular article (Black Holes)
• Stephen Hawking 1994 paper on black holes (Black Holes)
  
  
• Alcubierre (1994) warp drive (Wormholes and time warps)
• LIGO (2016) gravitational waves detection (Wormholes and time warps)
  
  
• Siegfried (2016) Susskind's ideas, pretty readable (Locality and entanglement)
• Grant (2015) Susskind's ideas, denser (Locality and entanglement)
• Susskind (2016) Is space a mass of wormholes conveying entanglement? (Locality and entanglement)
• Einstein & Rosen (1935) ER wormholes paper--super dense, but you might like seeing it (Locality and entanglement)
• Einstein, Podolsky & Rosen (1935) Problems with locality--the EPR paper (Locality and entanglement)
  
  
• Flatland (1884)(Spacetime and hyperdimensionality)

Nifty Videos

• Harmless projectiles (Basic physics)
• Tacoma Bridge Failure (Waves and Particles)
• Electron double slit (Waves and Particles)
• Alan Guth discusses inflation : Part I Part II (Inflationary Big Bang)
• Sean Carroll discusses... (Dark energy)