As part of the cosmic recycling system, the solar wind dumps hundreds of millions of tons of solar material into outer space each second. By using artificial satellites that can move through the solar wind and transmit back data about its activity, scientists hear the creaks, groans, screams, thunderclaps and drumrolls of our sun’s song.
—Heinz R. Pagels, Perfect Symmetry
Professor Pagels, somewhere in our galaxy
evolved intelligence perhaps
considers us: “Their sun makes quite a racket
with its creaks and thunderclaps,
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