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Matt Visser: Pedagogical articles

Pedagogical articles in Popular Magazines/Newspapers


3. Black Stars, not black holes
   (with Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Liberati, and Sebsatiano Sonego)
   Scientific American, October 2009, 38-45. 

2. They're playing our song:
   Cosmologists find the ``music'' that got everything started.
   St Louis Post-Dispatch, 18 May 2001.

1. Why wormholes?
   Phlogistin, March 1997.

Book Reviews 

2.   Music of the Spheres [postscript]
     Book Review: 
     Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the sounds of spacetime, 
       by Marcia Bartusiak.
     Science  291 (2 February 2001) 834.
     
1.   Book Review: 
     Supermanifolds, 
       by Bryce DeWitt.
     Physics Today 40 #3 (March 1987) 72.

Pedagogical articles in Professional Magazines


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6. Quantum gravity: Progress from an unexpected direction
   Matters of Gravity, Number 19, Spring 2002
   e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0202044.
   http://gravity.phys.psu.edu/mog.html

5. Report on the workshop: Analog models of general relativity
   Matters of Gravity, Number 17, Spring 2001
   e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0102044.
   http://gravity.phys.psu.edu/mog.html

4. Experimental Unruh radiation?
   Matters of Gravity, Number 17, Spring 2001
   e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0102044.
   http://gravity.phys.psu.edu/mog.html

3. Condiciones de energía y escalares fundamentales: duelo en el crepúsculo
   (with Carlos Barceló)
   LAEFF Reporter 6 #27 (November 2000) 7--10. 
   (Madrid, Spain)
   [Madrid PDF (26 M)]
 
2. Optical black holes?
   Matters of Gravity, Number 15, Spring 2000
   e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0002027.
   http://gravity.phys.psu.edu/mog.html

1. A New Twist [postscript]
   ``Perspective'' article in Science magazine,
   Science 282 (9 October 1998) 249.
   Local copy of figure [postscript]
   Local copy of figure [postscript, with caption]

Pedagogical articles in the Internet 

1. What is the zero point energy? 
   http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/physics/physics33.html

2. What are wormholes? 
   http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/physics/physics34.html

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