{"id":79,"date":"2005-05-12T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/we-try-harder\/"},"modified":"2005-05-12T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T10:36:00","slug":"we-try-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/we-try-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"We try harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of the Gravity Research Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2005_05_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#111573055826094038\">essay competition<\/a> have been announced. (And if you&#8217;re wondering how they did it so quickly, the deadline was actually the end of March.) Links where I could find them. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gravity Research Foundation<br \/>PO Box 81389<br \/>Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-0004<\/p>\n<p>Roger W. Babson, Founder<br \/>George M. Rideout, Jr., President<\/p>\n<p>The trustees are pleased to announce the Awards for Essays for 2005.<\/p>\n<p>1.$3,500 <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/gr-qc\/0503120\"><i>The String Coupling Accelerates the Expansion of the Universe<\/i><\/a>, by John Ellis*, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos+, and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos#; *TH Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; +Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, King=E2=80=99s College London, Strand WC2R 2LS, UK; #George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&#038;M University, College Station, TX 77843, Astroparticle Physics Group, (HARC), Mitchell Campus, Woodlands, TX 77381, Academy of Athens, Division of Natural Sciences, 28 Panepistimiou Avenue, Athens 10679, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>2.$1,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/gr-qc\/0505037\"><i>Does Inflation Provide Natural Initial Conditions for the Universe?<\/i><\/a> by Sean M. Carroll and Jennifer Chen, Enrico Fermi Institute, Department of Physics, and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.<\/p>\n<p>3.$750 <i>Gravity from Local Lorentz Violation<\/i>, by V. Alan Kostelecky* and Robertus Potting+, *Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; +CENTRA, Physics Department, FCT, Universidade do Algarve, 8000 Faro, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>4.$500 <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/astro-ph\/0505277\"><i>Gravity-Wave Detectors as Probes of Extra Dimensions<\/i><\/a>,  by Chris Clarkson and Roy Maartens, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, UK.<\/p>\n<p>5.$250 <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/gr-qc\/0505052\"><i>Classical and Quantum General Relativity: A New Paradigm<\/i><\/a>, by Rodolfo Gambini* and Jorge Pullin+, *Instituto de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Igua 4225, esq. Mataojo, Montevideo, Uruguay; +Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001.<\/p>\n<p>Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order)<\/p>\n<p>D.V. Ahluwalia-Khalilova; Giovanni Amelino-Camelia; Vijay Balasubramanian, Vishnu Jejjala, and Joan Simon; Mihai Bondarescu; Xavier Calmet, Michael Graesser, and Stephen D.H. Hsu; Saulo Carneiro; F.I. Cooperstock; F. de Felice; Cedric Deffayet; Alessandro Fabbri and Jose Navarro-Salas; G.W. Gibbons, H. Lu, Don N. Page, and C.N. Pope; Yuan K. Ha; Veronika E. Hubeny, Mukund Rangamani, and Simon F. Ross; Viqar Husain and Oliver Winkler; Mark G. Jackson; David W. Kraft; Jnanadeva Maharana; M.D. Maia; Hrvoje Nikolic; T. Padmanabhan; Fabrizio Pinto; Sanjeev S. Seahra; M. P. Silverman; C. Sivaram; Dejan Stojkovic, Glenn D. Starkman, and Fred C. Adams; John Swain; Daniel R. Terno; Paul S. Wesson; G.Z. Xie and Hong-Tao Liu; Winfried Zimdahl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Ah well, it&#8217;s not whether you win or lose, and all that. In the immortal words of Geddy Lee, &#8220;Ten bucks is ten bucks, eh?&#8221; Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/orangequark.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/inflation-and-initial-conditions-of.html\">Mark<\/a> fills us in on why you need a smooth patch of the early universe in order to start inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition have been announced. (And if you&#8217;re wondering how they did it so quickly, the deadline was actually the end of March.) Links where I could find them. Gravity Research FoundationPO Box 81389Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-0004 Roger W. Babson, FounderGeorge M. Rideout, Jr., President The trustees are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}