Bill Wheaton is a physicist & astronomer working at Caltech. I have especially strong interests in physics, and in space exploration and associated technology. I have a personal web page at

http://www.wwheaton.com/waw

and a work page at

http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/waw.

Contents 1 Wiki Projects 2 Wikipedia interests 3 Barnstars 4 Subdirectories

[edit] Wiki Projects

[edit] Wikipedia interests

Some Wiki articles I have contributed to include

• Bevatron
• Particle accelerator
• Viking (rocket)

The works of Arthur C. Clarke, especially

• Childhood's End
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
• Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Orbit
• Wolf-Rayet star
• Rocket engine
• Space exploration
• HEAO Program
• HEAO 3
• GRO J1655-40
• Black hole
• Large Hadron Collider
• Safety of the Large Hadron Collider
• Eddington Luminosity
• L-shell
• Space colonization
• Milton W. Rosen
• Oreste Piccioni
• Wendell H. Furry

Pages I watch and likely have an interest in are (as of 11/18/2008):

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 2MASS
• 4U 1700-37
• Alex (parrot)
• Altair (spacecraft)
• Apollo program
• Arches Cluster
• Ares I
• Ares V
• Ariane 5
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Astronomical Netherlands Satellite
• Atomic number
• Balint Karosi
• Bell's theorem
• Benny Peiser
• Bevatron
• Black hole
• CCNet (network)
• Celestial mechanics
• Childhood's End
• Cl* 1806-20
• Constellation program
• Cosmic infrared background
• Counterfactual definiteness
• Cygnus X-1
• Cygnus X-3
• Dirac large numbers hypothesis
• E-Prime
• Earth Departure Stage
• Eddington luminosity
• Einstein Observatory
• Exploration Systems Architecture Study
• FSC15307+3253
• Faster-than-light
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• Flyby anomaly
• GRO J1655-40
• GRS 1124-683
• GRS 1915+105
• GX 339-4
• Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
• Gamma-ray astronomy
• Gamma (satellite)
• Gamma ray spectrometer
• General relativity
• Granat
• Gravastar
• Gravity Probe B
• HEAO Program
• HEASARC
• Hadron
• Hawking radiation
• Henry Kolm
• Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere
• High Energy Astronomy Observatory
• High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1
• High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3
• High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
• Hubble Space Telescope
• IRAS
• Infrared Space Observatory
• Infrared astronomy
• International Space Station
• Interplanetary Flight: an introduction to astronautics
• Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Interstellar travel
• Interstellar travel and the Wait Calculation
• Introduction to general relativity
• Introduction to special relativity
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Developmental Ephemeris
• L-shell
• LBV 1806-20
• Large Hadron Collider
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• Life
• Liquid rocket
• List of X-ray pulsars
• List of basic space exploration topics
• List of most luminous stars
• List of space telescopes
• Local hidden variable theory
• Lunar space elevator
• Many-worlds interpretation
• Matter
• Metric expansion of space
• Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets
• Minkowski diagram
• Near-Earth asteroid
• Near-Earth object
• Opacity (optics)
• Orbit
• Orbital mechanics
• Oreste Piccioni
• Orion (spacecraft)
• Orion abort modes
• PSR J0737-3039
• Particle accelerator
• Philosophical realism
• Phoenix (spacecraft)
• Photometry (astronomy)
• Photon
• Pioneer anomaly
• Potentially hazardous asteroid
• Principle of locality
• Project Constellation
• Project Vanguard
• Quantum field theory
• Quark
• Quasar
• Quintuplet cluster
• Resveratrol
• Rietdijk-Putnam argument
• Rocket engine
• SGR 1806-20
• Safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
• Safety of the Large Hadron Collider
• Saturn (rocket family)
• Shape of the Universe
• Solar power satellite
• Space Shuttle program
• Space colonization
• Space debris
• Space elevator
• Space elevator economics
• Space exploration
• Space solar power
• Special relativity
• Speed of gravity
• Spitzer Space Telescope
• Stellar black hole
• Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
• Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
• Strong
• Strong (relative detectability)
• Strong (source)
• Supermassive black hole
• Topic outline of space exploration
• Topical outline of space exploration
• Uhuru (satellite)
• Unruh effect
• Van Allen radiation belt
• Vanguard (rocket)
• Vanguard rocket
• Vela X-1
• Viking (rocket)
• Viking rocket
• WR 102ka
• Wendell H. Furry
• White hole
• Wolf-Rayet star
• Wormhole
• X-ray astronomy
• X-ray binary
• X-ray pulsar
• XTE J1650-500

Please understand that I know essentially nothing about many (or most!) of these.

[edit] Barnstars

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For helping out a n00b(me!) 11341134a (talk) 19:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For helping me out everytime. -- Extra999 (talk) 19:50, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Subdirectories

test1 Asteroid table test formatting.

test2 Symbols 4/3/2009

test3 sockpuppets

test4 Ref library for LHC safety

test5 Ref library for Life -- Thermoeconomics aspects.

    -- Princess

test6 X-ray Astronomy table formatting experiments.