The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ that threatened to upend physics
The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ that threatened to upend physics
- September 2, 2012
- An article by Jim Weatherall, logic & philosophy of science assistant professor, is featured in The Boston Globe September 2, 2012
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From The Boston Globe:
In 1972 and 1973, two unmanned spacecraft — called Pioneer 10 and 11 — were launched
on missions to the outer reaches of the solar system. The probes sent beautiful images
of Jupiter and Saturn back to Earth, along with exciting new data about their makeup.
And then the scientists monitoring the crafts sat back and relaxed as the ships began
their long, lonely journeys into deep space. Until something weird turned up in the
data. About the authoer: James Owen Weatherall is an assistant professor of logic
and philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine. His book, “The
Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable,” will be
published in January 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
For the full story, please visit http://articles.boston.com/2012-09-02/ideas/33517621_1_theories-deep-spa...
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