X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Gregory Benford


Benford

Gregory Benford, American science fiction author and astrophysicist

Gregory Benford

According to Benford, this lens would diffuse the light from the Sun and reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth by approximately 0.5% to 1%.

Working in collaboration with, among others, science fiction writers Cramer, Forward, and Landis, Benford worked on a theoretical study of the physics of wormholes, which pointed out that wormholes, if formed in the early universe, could still exist in the present day if they were wrapped in a negative-mass cosmic string.

Hugo Award

The New Hugo Winners, edited originally by Asimov, later by Connie Willis and finally by Gregory Benford, has four volumes collecting stories from the 1983 to the 1994 Hugos.

Tachyonic antitelephone

A device capable of "telegraphing into the past" was later also called "tachyonic antitelephone" by Gregory Benford et al.



see also