The Infinity Pool
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-07-13 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Authors:
Abraham Loeb
Abstract
Career opportunities are often a matter of chance, but also of willingness to cross interdisciplinary boundaries.
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@article{arxiv.1507.02524,
title = {The Infinity Pool},
author = {Abraham Loeb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02524},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure, submitted for publication
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