Word: interstellar
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Goodman's best known work has come in the field of measuring magnetic fields in star formations, an interest she has pursued since writing her doctoral thesis at Harvard a decade ago on interstellar magnetic fields. She has taught at the University since then...
Goodman introduced a graduate course in 1997 on "The Physics of the Interstellar Medium," an area where she concentrates much of her work. She is in the process of writing her first textbook focusing on the interstellar medium...
...stars typically pulsate comparatively slowly, Horowitz's device is calibrated to spot intense stellar flare-ups lasting only a few billionths of a second. Such "events," he figures, would probably be powerful bursts of artificial light aimed at us from an inhabited planet orbiting that star. In short, an interstellar hello...
Could aliens actually send a flash across our Milky Way galaxy? Without a doubt, says Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who first suggested lasers as a tool for interstellar communication nearly 40 years ago. Adds Werthimer: "They may have stuff out there we couldn't even dream of." O.K., E.T., never mind the phone call. Start blinking...
...plot moves forward as a sense of urgency is introduced: Martin must repair the spaceship soon or else the ship's Interstellar Safety System, designed to keep other races from acquiring the advanced Martian technology, will explode. Meanwhile, a government agency, SETI has been trying to find the Martian. Will Uncle Martin get off the planet before the greedy scientists get their hands...