Robert L. Park is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Park is most noted for his commentaries on pseudoscience such as telepathy and homeopathy in his popular book Voodoo Science. He is also seen in the media as an outspoken critic of manned spaceflight, efforts to colonize space, and the prototype U.S. National Missile Defense. He also gained some notoriety for criticizing Dennis Lee's claims that he had invented a device from which he could extract "free-energy". A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Physics sci. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public coeducational university situated in suburban Maryland just outside Washington, DC. The flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, the university is most often referred to as the University of Maryland, even though the... Voodoo Science, another term for pseudoscience, was popularized in a book of the same title (ISBN 0195147103) written in 2001 by Robert L. Park. ... Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus Space colonization, also called space settlement and space humanization, is the hypothetical permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. ... A payload launch vehicle carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle is launched from Meck Island at the Kwajalein Missile Range on Dec. ... This article or section should include material from Parallel Path See also Perpetuum mobile as a musical term Perpetual motion machines (the Latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon) are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy in a way science cannot explain (yet). ...

Park writes a weekly column, What's New (http://www.aps.org/WN/), for the American Physical Society. The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the worlds largest organization of physicists. ...

External links

• Bob Park's Universe -- personal homepage (http://www.bobpark.com/)
• short biography (http://www.scisoc.net/robertpark.htm)