Alex Kaplan
@alexkaplan0
Coffee guy @cometeer, physics @princetonphys, supporter of @BrosForDecarb, and your favorite source of superconductor disinformation
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22-06-2019 23:25:31
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This is the coolest experiment ever. Alex Lupsasca is building the biggest telescope in history with an effective aperture 3x the size of earth to capture photons that have been circling a black hole. You've heard of EHT, now prepare for BHEX (1/6)
Incredibly cool project — Alex Lupsasca and team are quite literally making a telescope that’s bigger than Earth (!) to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Alex was one of the most brilliant people I crossed paths with in college, excited to see novel, major foundational