One year after the Obama White House announced National Lab Day would be part of the President's inaugural Educate to Innovate initiative, research and development engineer Marshall Barnes has emerged as its brightest and most innovative component.

The physicist J.R. Gott was unable to answer a challenge from noted R&D engineer and conceptual theorist Marshall Barnes, who pointed out a flaw in the physicist's idea of a universe
"that is its own mother". A classroom project will result in 2011