An earlier movie by Polley, Away From Her, stood out as well but had the beneift of an Alice Munro story as the source material and Julie Christie as the star.

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In this case the source would have to be something far more exotic, such as a neutron star being swallowed by a black hole or colliding with another neutron star.

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Dr Ardavan is confident that, if the machine can be coaxed into doing this, it will radiate in exactly the way he predicts, providing a tuneable and compact source of high-frequency microwaves in effect, a tabletop pulsar, without the neutron star.

ECONOMIST: Physics