In a nutshell...
In the beginning, the Universe
was born in a gigantic explosion. Some time later (September 21,
1972), I was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I grew up in Calgary,
Alberta, and received a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy from the
University of Calgary in 1994. I then went to graduate school at the
California Institute of Technology, to study gravitational physics
under Kip Thorne. I defended my Ph.D. in 1999, and did a postdoc at
the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee for two years. During
that time (October 15, 2000), I married Pu Chen (³ÂÆÓ). I returned to
Caltech for a second postdoc starting in 2001.
The following timeline puts these events in their proper context.
The axis scaling exponentially approaches both of its endpoints in
time (the Big Bang in one direction, the present day in the other),
according to the bilogarithmic or “logistic” differential
equation:
where l is distance along the timeline, t is time
since the Big Bang, T is the present time, and 8px and 48px are
the decade spacings as one approaches the Big Bang and the present
day, respectively.
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