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 science.
- 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".