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From: Lawrence Krauss 5
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: things
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:28:39 +0000
back from class, and revising.. am calling you now at the number below.. but no answer....
my cell is if you want to try me..
Lawrence M. Krauss
Foundation Professor,
Director, Origins Initiative,
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Associate Director, Beyond Center
School of Earth and Space Exploration,
Beyond Center,
and Department of Physics,
Arizona State University
PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ 85287-1404
On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Lawrence Krauss wrote:
I called the number you gave but got the answering machine.. then went off to Mary Poppins with my
daughter.. the broadway musical... a little bonding.
will get the letter off to you tonight.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Foundation Professor
Director, Origins Initiative
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Earth and Space Exploration
PO Box 871404 Tem e AZ 85287-1404
ulty.asu.edu
Assistant (Jessica)
On Feb 17, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
now?
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Lawrence Krauss c wrote:
am back from seminars and writing letter now.. still wanna talk?
Lawrence M. Krauss
Foundation Professor,
Director, Origins Initiative,
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
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Associate Director, Beyond Center
School of Earth and Space Exploration,
Beyond Center,
and Department of Physics,
Arizona State University
PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ 85287-1404
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
yes„ however email me a letter that says how important it would be for me to actually spend time at
origins. conference research things that i would be needed physically there to do..
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Lawrence Krauss < > wrote:
will do.. am off to a seminar now.. can I call in 2 hours?
Lawrence M. Krauss
Foundation Professor,
Director, Origins Initiative,
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Associate Director, Beyond Center
School of Earth and Space Exploration,
Beyond Center,
and Department of Physics,
Arizona State University
PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ 85287-1404
On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
call me if you can
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Lawrence Krauss c > wrote:
was working on 1.5 hours sleep yesterday, so I may not have been coherent.. our conversation last
night felt like a dream this morning, though I know it happened. The greatest gift that I can get is
to be given the time and space to enjoy ideas and what means so much to me
is that I know that is the thought behind what you offered, and that alone means a tremendous
amount to me.... and I am not blowing smoke up your ass by saying that being able to share that joy
with you has been something that I have always enjoyed. Thanks Jeffrey. And I truly believe you
are right, I would provide you the same in a heartbeat if I could and if it was ever necessary. I will
also ponder creative ways to enact this once I get over the shock of it.
Enough schmultz perhaps.. On other matters.. regarding Origins Board.. I will check on things at
this end.. I assume you have the Florida Science Foundation still, and having you there as
representing the foundation cannot, as far as I can see, possibly be questioned (of course even if it
was we could answer back saying, 'what is your problem with the goals of the florida science
foundation?"..) so I would genuinely like you on the board because I think you will be a
provocative and creative exponent of doing interesting and novel transdisciplinary things and not
the status quo.. If you ultimately decided that it was better to be behind the scenes, we could ensure
that you were a part of the meeting itself by indeed having the board meeting in St. Thomas with
you as our host.. (that is possible of course whether or not you are on the board, and may be easier
to justify if you are anyway) and it occurred to me last night that depending upon the timing of it,
Nancy and I could stay on and we could finally get you in the water to do some diving.. :)
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Regarding science, I will be contacting Martin.. I would really like to put something together for
sometime next winter after January.. Interestingly, Sid Altman, who won the Nobel Prize for
showing RNA was a catalyst, allowing the possibility of an RNA world before a DNA world,
contacted me the other day and said he heard about origins and wants to come out.. so we talked
about Jan-Feb next year sometime, maybe at the same time as Frank W. is visiting, and having a
workshop on the origin of life.. I could in fact make origin of life a theme of next winter-spring, and
have several shorter workshops on interesting aspects of this.. We are also talking about doing a
larger related public origins event sometime in the spring, and we could cap off a term of various
workshops with something interesting on evolution, and also maybe get some people like Jim
Watson out here for color..:)
I am going to prepare some proposals for Bamaby as well.. If we are going to do serious workshops
where we bring people out for an extended period to try and make real progress in a field, I figure it
will cost about 750K- I M/term long workshop.. I am looking with people here at starting a charter
school to really teach science, and potentially building a building that co-joins it with an Origins
meeting center.. The University here is very entrepreneurial and I am intrigued by ways we might
fund real science without using the money just to support the university.. because of the ASU
foundation we can funnel money in private ways to do whatever we want, so being creative in this
regard is both possible and advisable.. and as I say, that even includes supporting work elsewhere if
Martin is hampered by Harvard rules regard external support. I actually think you would enjoy
meeting at talking to Michael Crow here (the president of asu) as he is really a remarkable man, and
an interesting intellect.. so it might be nice for you to consider coming to phoenix sometime just to
hang out a bit, see the area, including real estate if you want, and meet with Michael.. if we timed it
and Martin and Frank W could come out for a few days we could talk ideas as well..
some thoughts..
Lawrence
Lawrence M. Krauss
Foundation Professor,
Director, Origins Initiative,
Co
-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Associate Director, Beyond Center
School of Earth and Space Exploration,
Beyond Center,
and Department of Physics,
Arizona State University
PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ 85287-1404
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