Adventist Review on Summerscales & Gravity

A Seventh-day Adventist physicist is on the international team that made worldwide headlines by announcing the first detection of gravitational waves, a discovery that promises to open a new era in astronomy.

Tiffany Summerscales, an associate physics professor at Andrews University, assisted in the research by the LIGO Collaboration that detected gravitational waves caused by the collision of two black holes a billion light-years from Earth.

The discovery, published in the journal Physical Review Letters last week, gives scientists a new tool to explore the universe, Summerscales said Thursday.

“I kind of like to think of gravitational waves as being the true ‘music of the spheres,’” she said. “The LIGO detectors are the radios that we have built so that we can hear that music. So far we have gotten just the first note — well chirp actually — but we know there is more that we will hear as we learn to tune our radios better.”

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