More work stuff. :)

[pasithea]

Oh! Also, a few weeks ago I had an idea for some logo art for the next mission our team plans to fly (STEP, Space Test of the Equivalence Principle) Anyhow, the week before last we'd had a team meeting and I remembered I wanted to do something with the ideas so I started fiddling around with them on paper and then went and bugged Peggy and got some input and great suggestions. I ended up making about 5 different designs (Mostly variations of the ideas she and I brainstormed) and handed them off to the boss (Doing this stuff off company time because this mission isn't fully funded yet and can't pay for art but is in that weird catch-22 where they need art for presentations to get funding) Anyhow, he really like them and chose this one as the logo they are going to start using for presentations. How cool is that? :)

Comments

[revar.livejournal.com]

Sweet! So what would the test be, or can you talk about that yet?

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can talk about it, except I don't know enough to say anything very educated about it. Basically it's a drag-free very precise study of the equivalence principle (Newton's law of gravity). According to string theorists (I think, don't quote me on this) Newton's gravity starts to break down at some very minute level of precision. STEP's aim is to measure gravitational forces down well past that level, in effect to investigate the border between Einstein's universe and String Theory. Information from the probe could constrain quantum theory or break Einstein's model of the universe. It could also help us take a step towards developing a working and provable unified field theory. How's that for cool? :D

[revar.livejournal.com]

If you're taking measurements with that precision, wouldn't ( admittedly currently theoretical) gravity waves cause noise in the measurements? Or would detection of that just be considered an alternate bonus?

I read this aloud to Dan (who thinks you're cool)

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

He said that's very cool. Did he happen to mention he mixes cement? :D