“How can there be so much damage from one hit to his head?” “We call it the starburst effect,” the doctor says. “What’s the starburst effect?” “Picture it like this. Imagine someone hit a car windshield with a baseball bat. There would be a concentrated area of damage where the bat hit the glass, but then shooting out in every direction, like a starburst, would be a whole web of cracks. It worked the same way with Noah’s brain. There’s severe damage where his brain hit his skull, but webbing out from that are hundreds of tiny tears in the tissue. Those tears make it impossible to know the
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