Mike Morris (physicist)

Michael S. "Mike" Morris, is a physics professor at Butler University.

Academia

He earned a PhD in physics from Caltech under the supervision of Kip Thorne.[1] Among his nine published peer-reviewed papers, his most notable theoretical contribution is his pioneering analysis of time travel through traversable wormholes, coauthored in 1987 with Kip Thorne, and Ulvi Yurtsever. Kip Thorne tells the story of this discovery in his 1995 book Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy.

Usenet

Mike Morris is a Usenetter known in that medium for lengthy discussions on rec.arts.books,[2] mainly concerned with his advocacy of scientific realism and Classical Liberalism, punctuated by occasional apologetics for conspicuous consumption,[3] as well as his advocacy of homeschooling on misc.education,[4] misc.education.home-school.misc,[5] and misc.education.home-school.Christian.[6]

Publications
  • Morris, Michael S. (1989-03-15). "Initial conditions for perturbations in R+εR2 cosmology". Physical Review D. American Physical Society (APS). 39 (6): 1511–1516. doi:10.1103/physrevd.39.1511. ISSN 0556-2821.
  • Morris, Michael S.; Thorne, Kip S.; Yurtsever, Ulvi (1988-09-26). "Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition". Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society (APS). 61 (13): 1446–1449. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.61.1446. ISSN 0031-9007.
  • Morris, Michael S.; Thorne, Kip S. (1988). "Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity". American Journal of Physics. American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). 56 (5): 395–412. doi:10.1119/1.15620. ISSN 0002-9505. (A tutorial paper)
gollark: I also used it to pick up ADS-B a bit, but it wasn't massively interesting since I had a not-very-optimized antenna and hadn't got a high-up outdoorsy spot for it.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: It's not very hard. There's software for it already.
gollark: Yes, which you can decode pretty easily.
gollark: I found out with my RTL-SDR a while ago that the local authorities appear to use unencrypted *pager* communications for somewhat sensitive-looking stuff. I hope that's being phased out.

See also
  • Roman arch

References
  1. Ph.D.'s Awarded by Caltech, with Thorne as the Thesis Advisor. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 26 Apr. 2007.
  2. "Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
  3. "Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
  4. "Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
  5. "Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
  6. "Google Groups". Groups.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-08.


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