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66: Inscrutable Neutrons & Perplexing Pulsars

May 22, 202057 minSeason 1Ep. 66
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Special Event! Syzygy Live at the Festival of Ideas — Friday 12 June, 8-9pm UK time. All the details at the website.

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talked about in this episode:

Neutron stars and pulsars

Videos on neutron stars from Kurzgesagt: video 1, video 2

Most precise pulsar, more stable than an Atomic clock

The Crab Nebula pulsar

Video on the Supernova of 1054

P-dot disgram

The Ideal Gas Law

Equations of state

LIGO

Gravitational wave evidence for neutron star mergers

Veritasium video on neutron star mergers

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