Newsday
Professor Duncan Brown on Major Discovery of Origins of Gold
Tuesday, October 17, 2017,
By Sawyer Kamman
After a team of scientists detected a collision of two neutron stars, they now know the origins of heavy metals like gold a platinum. Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, talks to Newsday about this disovery.
“This is getting everything you wish for,” he said. “This is our fantasy observation. We see the gold being formed.”