Things That Go Bump in the Universe Quotes

“Pope was almost reverent about the subject. “Trees provide this world-scale observatory. There’s information that has been hiding all around us all this time. It’s amazing that if you go and touch a bristlecone pine, in its body—encoded in ways that we can’t see—are measures of extreme astrophysical events.”
― C. Renee James, Things That Go Bump in the Universe: How Astronomers Decode Cosmic Chaos

“Their greater masses and smaller separation mean that more energy is being carried away by gravitational waves. But like the Earth-Sun system, the stars of KIC 9832227 have 99 energy-altering problems, and gravitational radiation isn’t one of them.”
― C. Renee James, Things That Go Bump in the Universe: How Astronomers Decode Cosmic Chaos