Rip Definition and 198 Threads

James Hartle has died. A few years ago I had the pleasure of using his text to teach an undergrad GR course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Deser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM_formalism https://authors.library.caltech.edu/72877/1/PhysRev.116.1322.pdf https://www.brandeis.edu/physics/people/profiles/deser-stanley.html https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=105708...

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2023-04-16/ahmad-jamal-dead-92 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/obituaries/ahmad-jamal-jazz-dead.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2023/04/16/846207919/ahmad-jamal-obituary

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/remember-the-usual-gang-of-idiots.557121/ Al Jaffee, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist, dead at 102 https://apnews.com/article/al-jafee-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dies-f676fbeb190b44c8aa4abcb0daa5d571 “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions” or "Did you catch...

Harry Lorayne was a magician and a memory master (referred to by some as the "Yoda of Memory"). He died yesterday at 96. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lorayne I found his first book, How To Develop a Super Power Memory, when I was in high school. I still use the alpha-numeric code he...

RIP Keith Reid, lyricist and non-performing member of Procol Harum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Reid

Keanu Reeves Mourns 'Beloved' John Wick Costar Lance Reddick: 'Deeply Saddened and Heartbroken' https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/keanu-reeves-mourns-beloved-john-220816769.html He's played some interesting and cool characters, and he was apparently a very nice guy. I've seen his acting...

Died today at 89, one of the Jazz greats

Raquel Welch, a longtime actress, international sex symbol and Golden Globe winner, has died, PEOPLE confirms. She was 82. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/raquel-welch-one-million-years-200425372.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/entertainment/raquel-welch-death/index.html

Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149748001/world-oldest-person-sister-andre-lucile-randon-france-nun What stories she could tell!

Gina Lollobrigida, an icon of Italian cinema who devoted her life to art, died Monday at the age of 95. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/gina-lollobrigida-dies-at-95 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64292026

Jeff Beck, the British guitar virtuoso who rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the Yardbirds and later embarked on an acclaimed and prolific solo career, died Jan. 10. He was 78. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/jeff-beck-virtuoso-rock-guitarist-dies-at-78/ar-AA16eqam...

RIP, Barbara. :( https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/300776427/barbara-walters-tv-news-pioneer-has-died-at-93 Thank you for signing my copy of your memoir in 2008.

Pelé (Oct 23, 1940 - Dec 29, 2022) had been on palliative care for some time. Playing for Brazil, he won 3 World Cups, and during his career scored an impressive (and apparently disputed) 1281 goals, mostly with his Santos team...

Christine McVie has died at age 79. She is best known as a co-lead singer and song writer with Fleetwood Mac, which she joined in 1970. She was semi-retired for FM in 1998-2014.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/obituaries/jay-pasachoff-dead.html "Jay M. Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College who spent more than 50 years traveling the world to observe solar eclipses and, with 74 sightings under his belt, probably witnessed more of them than any other human in...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/olivia-Newton-john-star-of-grease-and-grammy-winner-dead-at-age-73-195050966.html This comes on the heels of the death of Judith Durham of the Seekers. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/we-lost-another-great-icon-of-music-of-the-1960s-judith-durham.1017437/...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-mccullough-pulitzer-winning-historian-165147930.html

Actress Nichelle Nichols, best known for her groundbreaking portrayal of Lt. Nyota Uhura in “Star Trek: The Original Series,” has died at age 89, of natural causes. Besides being on the first Star Trek show, she was also central to some important racial firsts on US TV: The Rev. Martin...

Does this sound too close to being a rip off of Halo. By the 23rd Century, a special component spread out over the Naval Defense Force, Ground Defense Forces, and United Space Force is SPARTAN or SPecial Assault opeRations TeAms Network. SPARTAN is broken up into 10 Units, the GDF has 5, the...

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/eugene-parker-legendary-figure-solar-science-and-namesake-parker-solar-probe-1927-2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Parker

A legend in bowling. A very sad loss, 52 is a young age for a great sportsman. RIP Edit. I remember watching this and thought, how the f what the hell? How did it ... I think everyone did

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/meat-loaf-dies-74-singer-rocker-bat-out-of-hell-rcna13015 :frown:

In order for the big rip to happen, the dark energy equation of state w must be more negative than -1, allowing dark energy density to grow. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip According to Wikipedia, the current observed w value is very close to -1 but it acknowledges that there is...

I have just been informed, by his sister, that long-time member @wolram passed away back in August. wolram was one of the first PF members and was a mainstay in general discussion since last year. wolram was never shy asking questions and his curiosity was endless. wolram RIP, thank you for your...

Moody Blues drummer, co-founder Graeme Edge dies at 80 https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-europe-england-justin-hayward-music-4539837e7e0a8f59c2050c87c260ee42 Nights in White Saturn I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band

Thanu Padmanabhan hasd died at age 64. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/theoretical-physicist-thanu-padmanabhan-passes-away-in-pune-7514922/ I have his book Foundations and Frontiers, which he "Dedicated to the fellow citizens of India". I have always intended to get his book...

As a high school student, I remember getting tickets to the Tattoo You tour. I was going redeem a voucher to buy tickets in New York City (these vouchers were distributed by randomly selected self-addressed stamped envelopes). A few blocks from the box office, I was offered $500 for my voucher...

https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/28/zz-top-bassist-dusty-hill-dead-dies/

He made history with his selection of Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his VP running mate. He was the first major-party presidential nominee to put a woman on the ticket. But his intentions to raise taxes led to one ofthe most lopsided losses in a presidential election. On Election Day...

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/375206219/lawrence-ferlinghetti-beat-poet-and-small-press-publisher-dies-at-101

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/science/isadore-singer-dead.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadore_Singer https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.php?pid=249 https://infinite.mit.edu/video/isadore-m-singer t=35m11s for an attempt to explain the theorem...

"It is with great sadness we announce that on February 9th, Chick Corea passed away at the age of 79, from a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently," an announcement from his official Facebook page reads...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/us/chuck-yeager-death/index.html What an amazing life. I'm glad we had him all the way to 97!

Argentine football (fútbol, soccer) star and legend passed away at age 60 from a heart attack at his home in Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Apparently he had a number of health issues, some of which were apparently complications related to an addiction to cocaine. :frown...

RIP Alex Trebek, https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/entertainment/alex-trebek-jeopardy-host-death-trnd/index.html Alex Trebek, the genial "Jeopardy!" host with all the answers and a reassuring presence in the TV game-show landscape for five decades, has died. He was 80 years old. The cause of...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/arts/spencer-davis-dead.html :frown:

Super loss, what a brilliant man! https://www.thewrap.com/james-randi-magician-and-paranormal-debunker-dies-at-92/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-molina/mexican-nobel-laureate-molina-ozone-layer-prophet-dies-at-77-idUSKBN26T03Q Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Crutzen and F Sherwood Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation...

Eddie van Halen, rock guitar legend, passed away following a battle with cancer today. He was 65! https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/eddie-van-halen-dies-65-193805148.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Van_Halen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen

Two months late, but I just found out she died back in July. First two paragraphs from the Economist obit which just appeared this week (I'd copy the whole thing but I don't want to do that w/ a copyrighted article) And after she had studied them for a while in adulthood, the statement "no...

Congressman John Lewis lost a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer. "He was the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, and was serving in his 17th term in the House until his death, having served since 1987, and was the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation...

I just saw this today: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/us/pistons-palace-demolished-trnd/index.html For 15 years I lived in Canada and less than one mile from Detroit. I never went to see the Pistons play at The Palace of Auburn Hills (I did see Gretzky play the Wings at Joe Louis), but I did...

http://www.cmt.com/news/1822744/charlie-daniels-83-dies-of-a-stroke/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/07/02/hugh-downs-newscaster-today-show-2020-dies-age-99/331803002/

Sad. There were a lot of reports on Twitter... but, at the time of this posting, nothing points to the usual reliable sources. https://trenden.nice2have.jp/april-11th-2020-at-1300-john-conway-twitter-buzz/ Wikipedia has been going back and forth with edits... but now seems to have accepted it...

It doesn't seem anyone had mentioned this, but the great physicist Philip Warren Anderson, who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for his investigations in the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, and who has made contributions particle physics, emergent phenomena, among many other...

The great Swedish actor has passed away. Very sad. I rewatched The Seventh Seal recently and his was an astonishing performance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51803195

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51209197

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/neil-peart-rush-drummer-dead I first saw anything Rush in an 8th grade Jazz Band practice in 1989 (I played trumpet), when my instructor put on a video of a solo similar to this and I was just blown away. I'd never seen anything else like it and still...