Janna Levin Books

Born 1967, Barnard, MIT, UCB, Cambridge

How the Universe Got Its Spots

2002 523.1 LEVIN, Janna West Slope

Skimmed after page 57. Autobiography mixed with speculation about repeated structure spacetime. So, why would the multiple connections be geometrically simple? If so, how would we know?

Unlikely;

• https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310233 rules out topology to 24 Gpc.

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2939 rules out topology at an angle >10° to 26 GPc (98.5% of the last scattering surface).

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

2006 LEVIN, Janna Beaverton Biography

Strange pseudo-fictional mixed biography of Turing and Gödel. Skimmed most of the Turing bits, the Gödel stuff is too depressing.

== Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space ===

2016 523.8875 LEV Tigard

Read cover to cover before PSU lecture. Useful history of LIGO people, no useful technnical details.

• Rainier Weiss MIT
• Kip Thorne Caltech
• Ron Drever Glasgow then Caltech (strange, died Alzheimer's)
• p27 Trinity test: "... carried in a fighter plane over a target ..." . Nope, tower.

• p121 "... and an H. G. Wells submarine." Nope, "my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea".

• p245 2015 Sept 14 0250 LHO 0450 LLO
  • LHO morning meeting Mike Landry asks blind injection team member
    • "Are we in a blind injection phase?"... No
    • "Did you test blind injections" ... No
    • "Did you test regular injections" ... No