(UKPA) – 2 days ago
Physicist Andrew E Lange, co-leader of an international team that produced a detailed image of remnants of the Big Bang showing the universe is flat, has died in an apparent suicide, police said. He was 52.
Dr Lange was a physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). University President Jean-Lou Chameau notified the institution in an e-mail that Dr Lange apparently took his own life on Friday.
"It appears to be a suicide," Det Lt John Dewar said.
Dr Lange recently resigned as chairman of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech said.
He was best known as co-leader of project Boomerang, which in 1998 used a telescope, carried over Antarctica by a balloon for 10 and a half days, to study the so-called cosmic microwave background - a gas of thermal radiation left over from the embryonic universe.
The experiment showed the spatial geometry of the universe is flat and supported theories that it will expand forever and not collapse upon itself.
The observations were considered the first detailed images of the infant universe, according to Caltech.
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What a shame, it makes you wonder why someone like this would take his own life, did he know something that we don't.
If you're still breathing, it's not too late!