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According to calculations by Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the collision of two neutron stars may produce no less than ten times the mass of the Moon in pure gold. In fact, almost the whole cosmic inventory of this precious metal — including the gold in your wedding ring.. has probably been created in neutron star collisions.. For obvious reasons, another popular name is “bling nova.“” (Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy, Govert Schilling and Martin Rees, p258).
The first time we ran Thor Oeschner’s corn, there was a sort of gravitational pull we all felt towards the mill. Everyone in the building was drawn near by the richness of it. We described it in the story of Moon Lake, which gets its name from the corns home in the Finger Lakes. You go through your life smelling something, like corn, all the time. You have a memory for it – it’s familiar. And then you smell it again, only this time, it’s the most corn-rich corn smell you’ve ever smelled.. like the volume has been turned up, LOUD. It’s a smell you never knew you were missing, but as soon as you get up close to it, it makes you long for it in a most nostalgic way, as with borrowed memories of someone else’s grandmothers cooking.