Baylor physics profs explain some of the eclipse phenomena we saw Monday
…, and the sense of nightfall in the middle of the day. During Eclipse Over Texas on Monday, 50+ representatives of Baylor’s Department of Physics were on hand at McLane Stadium to assist and educate those in attendance. We asked a couple of them — Dr. Lorin Swint Matthews (BS ’94, PhD ’98) and Dr. Barbara Castainheria Endl — to help us understand what we saw during the eclipse. Among the event’s highlights: Corona: This is the sun’s outer atmosphe…