Copernicus on the Science of THE FORCE AWAKENS Part 1 Read the full article on AICN INTRODUCTION These articles often attract people who don't usually come to the site, so it is worth an introduction. I’ve been writing for Ain’t It Cool for a long time, but I’m also a professor of astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a staff scientist at the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. I often write about the science in movies, and just recently we made the first video version of one of these articles, Science vs.