It’s so great that you were able to come to Japan! And thanks so much for your question!

Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of days!

It was a true privilege to read it!

I'll write up my own tribute once the PSA craziness is over.

Thanks! Yeah, that was fun! George and I spent a month together at Stanford doing those lectures. At one point George and I were going to try to put a book together based on them, but the pandemic kind of killed the momentum on that.

Yes, right?

Yeah, that’s right, I was thinking that myself after I posted it. George didn’t think much of that quote anyway. He thought it might be a veiled insult to Hooke.

Dammit, George would absolutely hate being compared to Newton like this! Sorry George!

My talk at the symposium will certainly mention him extensively. All of my work is just trying to push forward things that he started. Giants and shoulders and all of that…

Thanks! Yes, I think I will do that but I need some time to write it up.

All the more reason to complete the work as George envisioned.

I don’t know what to say. He was my teacher, my friend, an exemplar. I am going to write something up and post it somewhere.

Thanks for posting this photo with me right next to George!

This philosopher of geoscience would like to join.

Thanks for the shoutout! Yes, Gordon’s paper was indeed inspired by some of my early work on inverse problems in seismology. Some of that material eventually made it into my “Uncertainty and Modeling in Seismology”, in Reasoning in Measurement, 2017, Moessner and Nordmann, eds.

Congrats! I learned so much reading it!

Looking forward to i!

Yes, I know about your paper on stellar structure models, as well as your earlier work on models, of course. The admiration is mutual!