Faculty: 28
Staff: 12
Post Docs: 16
Grads: 55
Under Grads: 85
Research Areas:
Astrophysics, Relativity, and Cosmology; Condensed Matter Physics; Laser and Optical Physics, Solar Physics; Space Physics; Physics Education Research
Facilities:
Image and Chemical Analysis Laboratory; Optical Technology Center;
Spectrum Laboratory; Solar Image Processing Laboratory; Space Science and Engineering Laboratory;
Montana Space Grant Consortium
'The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative... '