Jeff D. Beish

FOCAL POINTCooperation in Space: The Real WorldWE'VE BEEN HEARING a lot about international cooperation in space. Carl Sagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have urged joint American-Soviet flights to Mars. Others are calling on all spacefaring nations to band together for a "mission to planet Earth" to...

The Inflationary Universe Lives?WHAT AN ASTRONOMER means when talking about the "early universe" will depend on individual interests and prejudices. To some it means the era during which galaxies formed, beginning perhaps 10 million years after the Big Bang. For others, it is the period of helium...

FOCAL POINTCosmic CorrespondenceI seek to contact the scientific community to make a presentation. . . . This letter is the only form of communication I have, because I am in prison.English teachers and romantic neo-Vic-torians both bemoan the decline of personal correspondence. The telephone, jet...