Benford's law of controversy, as expressed by science-fiction author Gregory Benford in 1980, states: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real ( true ) information available.

Gregory Benford and David Brin's Heart of the Comet features a comet with a conventional carbon-and-water-based ecosystem that becomes active near the perihelion when the Sun warms it.

Gregory Benford had a form of plasma-based life exist in the accretion disk of a primordial black hole in his novel Eater.

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# A Darker Geometry ( 1996, with Mark O. Martin and Gregory Benford )

* The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

Some hard SF authors have distinguished themselves as working scientists, including Gregory Benford, Geoffrey A. Landis and David Brin, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge.

Science fiction author and physicist Gregory Benford has declared that: " SF is perhaps the defining genre of the twentieth century, although its conquering armies are still camped outside the Rome of the literary citadels.

By then, a neo-Campbellian revival of hard science fiction after 1982 at the hands of David Brin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and others had emerged.

Notable writing judges have included: Algis Budrys, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert, K. D. Wentworth, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Andre Norton, Larry Niven, and Anne McCaffrey.

* Gregory Benford, Threads of Time ( 1974 )

A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and Gregory Benford, is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a very large microwave-sail.

* The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel In the Ocean of Night ( 1977 ) by Gregory Benford

In the officially licensed Foundation sequels Foundation's Fear, Foundation and Chaos and Foundation's Triumph ( by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and David Brin respectively ) the future Galactic Empire is seen to be controlled by a conspiracy of humaniform robots who follow the Zeroth Law and led by R. Daneel Olivaw.

If the rest mass is imaginary this implies that the denominator is imaginary since the total energy is an observable and thus must be real ; therefore the quantity under the square root must be negative, which can only happen if v is greater than c. As noted by Gregory Benford et al., among others, special relativity implies that tachyons, if they existed, could be used to communicate backwards in time ( see Tachyonic antitelephone article ).

* Artifact, a 1985 science fiction novel by Gregory Benford

He is also the central character of the Second Foundation Trilogy written after Asimov's death ( Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford, Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear, and Foundation's Triumph by David Brin ), which are set after Asimov's two prequels.

* Nebula Award: Gregory Benford, Timescape

* Essay by author and Gregory Benford on SFsite

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* Time Travel, Times Scapes, and Timescape ( 2000, with Russell Blackford, Alison Goodman, Damien Broderick, Aubrey Townsend, Gregory Benford ) in The New York Review of Science Fiction August 2000, ( ed.

Gregory was born in the family estate of Karbala outside the village of Arianzus, near Nazianzus, in southwest Cappadocia.

The reform-minded Pope Gregory VII was determined to oppose such practices, leading to the Investiture Controversy with King Henry IV ( r. 1056 – 1106 ), who repudiated the Pope's interference and persuaded his bishops to excommunicate the Pope, whom he famously addressed by his born name " Hildebrand ", rather than his divine name " Pope Gregory VII ".

* Derek Gregory ( born 1951 ), famous for writing on the Israeli, U. S. and UK actions in the Middle East after 9 / 11, influenced by Edward Said and has contributed work on imagined geographies.

* John Gregory Brown ( born 1960 ), American novelist

A letter written by St. Gregory the Great to the abbot of St. Hermes in Palermo mentions an Agatho, a Greek born in Sicily to wealthy parents.

Pope Gregory VI ( died 1048 ), born in Rome as John Gratian ( Latin Johannes Gratianus ), was Pope from 1 May 1045 until his abdication at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046.

Pope Gregory VIII ( c. 1100 / 1105 – 17 December 1187 ), born Alberto di Morra, was Pope from 25 October 1187 until his death.

Pope Gregory IX ( c. 1145 / 70 – 22 August 1241 ), born Ugolino di Conti, was pope from 19 March 1227 until his death.

Pope Gregory XIV ( 11 February 1535 – 16 October 1591 ), born Niccolò Sfondrati, was Pope from 5 December 1590 until his death in 1591.

Pope Gregory XV ( 9 January or 15 January 1554 – 8 July 1623 ), born Alessandro Ludovisi, was pope from 1621, succeeding Pope Paul V on 9 February 1621.

Pope Gregory XII ( c. 1326 – 18 October 1417 ), born Angelo Correr or Corraro, was Pope from 1406 to 1415.

Pope Gregory XIII ( 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585 ), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope from 1572 to 1585.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

Pope Saint Gregory VII ( c. 1015 / 1028 – 25 May 1085 ), born Hildebrand of Sovana (), was Pope from 22 April 1073 until his death.

Gregory was born as Hildebrand in Sovana, in what is now southern Tuscany, central Italy.

Gregory was born around 335, probably in or near the city of Neocaesarea, Pontus.

Gregory Zinoviev was born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire ( now Kirovohrad, Ukraine ), to Jewish dairy farmers, who educated him at home.

Gregory was born in Clermont, in the Auvergne region of central Gaul.

He was born into the upper stratum of Gallo-Roman society as the son of Florentius, Senator of Clermont by his wife Armentaria II, niece of Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons and a granddaughter of Florentinus, Senator of Geneva, and of Saint Gregory of Langres.

As early as 722, in a face to face meeting between Pope Gregory II, born and raised in Rome, and Saint Boniface, an Anglo-Saxon, Boniface complained that he found Pope Gregory's Latin speech difficult to understand, a clear sign of the transformation of Vulgar Latin in two regions of western Europe.

They had a son, Boy Gregory ( born October 16, 1996 ), who was born with Pfeiffer syndrome and died a week after birth.

Pope Gregory XVI ( 18 September 1765 – 1 June 1846 ), born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846.