Blogging and Life-Rearranging Do Not Mix
I know, I know. Let me have it. I said I would do my best to write for HomelyScientist and what did I do? I promptly went a got a new job, moved 1000 miles east and basically changed every single aspect of my life that a person can possibly change.
During the last month or two, it’s taken every spare nanosecond to keep relatively currently on AstronomyBuff, and even then I came up short for a few posts. As a result, I’ve had to lower the priority of writing on this blog.
Well, no more. Things have settled enough that I can get into a regular blogging groove and pick things up here.
A few bits of news: I’m working at the University of Illinois on The Dark Energy Survey, an effort to try and characterize nature of dark energy. Note that we’re not trying to find it, because we can’t interact with it directly, but we going to try and measure a variety of aspects of the universe to try and determine how MUCH dark energy there is and whether it’s always been this amount throughout the history of the universe.
It’s an incredibly interesting problem, one I am very excited and privileged to be a part of.
I’ll write about this effort mostly on astronomybuff, but I wanted to let HomelyScientist readers what I’ve been up to and to let you know that I’ll be tending to things a little more around here.
Thanks for your patience and lets get started…