John Cramer is the author of the acclaimed hard-SF novels, "Twistor" and "Einstein's Bridge", and writes a bi-monthly column for Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine. He is a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he teaches and leads a research program in ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics using the STAR detector at the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. John also works in the foundations and interpretations of quantum mechanics and travels regularly to Switzerland to work at the particle accelerator at CERN.