hitt's blog

Many may know that my wife Loraine and I are expecting our first child in mid-March. That puts her at around 21 weeks right now and at about 20 weeks, most doctors like mom and baby to have an ultrasound to check how things are going. Well, Loraine and I were treated to this very special glimpse of our son, Samuel Hitt, this past Wednesday! Have a look!

Reading a 1996 Scientific American article about Titanium-44 was my first exposure to real nuclear physics. I was a senior in high school at the time and the magazine was part of a year-long subscription I had been given as a Christmas gift. I can't remember many details about it but, the article was about the discovery of this isotope in supernova remnants. A few things that blew my mind then and continue to fascinate me now are, for instance, you can do spectroscopy on distant star light. This was really amazing to me.