Neutron Stars, A Cosmic Gift

Picture taken by my Momma of me in mid-speak.

The lady that introduced Victoria Kaspi

If a neutron star were to be brought to Earth and placed in..Montreal? If this were actually possible, it would not be good for any of us because of the extremely powerful pull of the neutron star. We would be sucked in and compressed really quick.

The super talented Victoria Kaspi and her passion, a neutron star.

These are my notes on the lecture.

This past Wednesday, I went to a public event at SAIC about Neutron Stars. It was pretty awesome. Much of the things that Victoria Kaspi spoke about, were things I had just learned in my Astronomy, Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Epistemology. I really enjoyed the presentation she gave. I went with my Mom and we both laughed so many times because Kaspi had included jokes into her slides and was generally a very good presenter. She was knowledgeable and entertaining. I learned some cool facts that I had not read about in my textbook and saw pictures of some HUGE satellites that are used to detect Pulsars. Pulsars are very impressive. They are the most accurate 'clocks', even more than our best atomic clocks.