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Chris Impey

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Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor in the Astronomy Department and Associate Dean in the College of Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has written popular articles on astronomy and is the author of a number of popular science books. The Living Cosmos is a tour of the search for life in the universe, and the pair of books How It Ends and How It Began cover the origin and fate of everything in the universe. Talking About Life is a series of conversations with pioneers in astrobiology. With Holly Henry, he wrote about the scientific and cultural impact of a dozen iconic NASA missions, Dreams of Other Worlds. A book about his experiences teaching cosmology to Tibetan monks, Humble Before the Void was published i ...more

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“Every five minutes, a pair of black holes merges somewhere in the universe, pouring gravitational waves out into space.”
― Chris Impey, Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
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“Yet even Newton’s great intellect did not fully illuminate gravity. He couldn’t explain how it operates instantaneously and invisibly across a vacuum. He admitted as much in his masterwork on gravity from 1687, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. He wrote, “I have not been able to discover the causes of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses.”
― Chris Impey, Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
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“Nature guards its secrets zealously, and it takes grit and determination to shed light on them.”
― Chris Impey, Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
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