Oct 30 2009
Lab Partner
On the Fermi Blog it says: “We see the Sun, the Moon and the Earth shining in high energy gamma-rays.”* So instead of “the quiet Sun” in the days of EGRET, the more sensitive Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope tracks the Sun across the sky, sensing gamma rays >100 MeV. In the YouTube lecture of January 2008 I explained this and basically foretold that GLAST (former name) would see the Sun in high energy gamma rays and more from the Earth than with EGRET.
To the FGrST people, try looking under your feet! And oh, that lab partner sitting next to you, he’s throwing and catching gamma rays as well.
Sadly, the day GLAST launched, a tornado went through KSU. The tornado went from engineering to physics, and that is what I am trying to do also.