not alone

"But it's not alone; we know of hundreds of pulsars, with over a dozen that are also young. Known binary pulsars, which were used to test Einstein's general relativity theory, can also be explored with the proposed method. This research can indeed broaden our understanding and observation techniques for pulsars, particularly young, energetic ones."

I expect I was not alone in feeling numb at first when the news hit and sunk in Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning with all the other feelings, especially anger and grief under the surface.

“The recommendation we’re making is folks should show up in community together right now, grieve together, and make clear to one another that we’re not alone,” Levin said.

So some of the things that felt important to activists in 2016—like staging the largest protest in U.S. history as an outlet for anger, an easy first step into political action, and a way to reassure one another that they were not alone—may no longer hold the same promise and urgency in 2024.

Gatland finds himself carrying the can but he is not alone.