{"id":1373,"date":"2007-09-05T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/09\/05\/national-academy-dark-energy-first-maybe-lisa-second\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:21:57","slug":"national-academy-dark-energy-first-maybe-lisa-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/national-academy-dark-energy-first-maybe-lisa-second\/","title":{"rendered":"National Academy:  Dark Energy First, Maybe LISA Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/books.nap.edu\/catalog.php?record_id=12006\">National Academy of Sciences panel<\/a> charged with evaluating the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/04\/05\/to-infinity-although-beyond-might-be-too-expensive\/\">Beyond Einstein<\/a> program has come out with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.nationalacademies.org\/onpinews\/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12006\">recommendations<\/a>.  Briefly:  the first priority should be the <a href=\"http:\/\/universe.nasa.gov\/program\/probes\/jdem.html\">Joint Dark Energy Mission<\/a> (where &#8220;joint&#8221; means &#8220;with the Department of Energy&#8221;), but we should keep up some amount of work on <a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.nasa.gov\/\">LISA<\/a>, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/2007\/09\/beyond_einstein_verdict_1.php\">Steinn<\/a> has the lowdown, so you should go there for details.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to know that JDEM will go forward (if NASA listens to the panel, about which I&#8217;m less sure than Steinn seems to be); <strong>very<\/strong> happy that LISA gets at least some support, although if I were the European Space Agency I&#8217;d certainly be shopping around for more reliable partners; slightly bemused that little effort seemed to go into pushing a CMB probe; and very sad to see X-ray astronomy get the shaft, as <a href=\"http:\/\/constellation.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">Constellation-X<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/exist.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">EXIST<\/a> seem right out of the picture.  We can only hope for happier times ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences panel charged with evaluating the Beyond Einstein program has come out with its recommendations. Briefly: the first priority should be the Joint Dark Energy Mission (where &#8220;joint&#8221; means &#8220;with the Department of Energy&#8221;), but we should keep up some amount of work on LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Steinn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}