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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by firebaze on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:00PM (#26960755)
Really don't want to be dismissive, but this guy appears to me as having one gesture (both hands towards the viewer, to underscore the graveness of his words), a good haircut and that's about it.

If find it hard to take a presentation like this serious. Most of the mentioned facts are right as far as i can judge it without having a major in physics, but to me this is so very much worse than a link to backreaction (Sabine Hossenfelder), startswithabang (Ethan Siegel) or almost any other serious physics blog out there as anything else.

I suppose this will get downvoted, and I'm fine with that, but please explain to me why a self-promoting video guy with probably 5% understanding of the matter compared to a serious pop-sci blog is so relevant to you.

Heck, even wikipedia has more information than this clip. And it doesn't cost 13 minutes + ads, just 5 minutes to read.

It's not a paradox a neutron star gets smaller the more mass you add to it. This is also true for Jupiter-sized objects; it is a function of density, matter and gravity, and not related (in this case) to special relativity.

Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by gizmo686 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:10PM (#26960877)
That self-promoting video guy is an astrophysicist, with a significant amount of papers published about black holes.

You are free to not like his mass-market material, but from a technical level, he is quite qualified to talk about the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_O%27Dowd_(astrophysicist)

https://www.mattodowd.space/

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/p_=0&q=author%3A%22O'Do...

Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by ramraj07 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:07PM (#26960831)
I have no idea what you’re talking about? It’s a pbs YouTube channel, the host is a professor in astrophysics and has generally made sure he doesn’t oversimplify anything. I like Sabine’s videos sometimes when she’s not bonkers kookoo but this guys not trying to be controversial.
Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by nynx on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:05PM (#26960814)
Matt O'Dowd is a well-known physicist. I'm not sure why you feel that you can judge him so quickly.
Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by prawn on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:19PM (#26975886)
This could be one of the greatest own-goal posts on HN I can recall reading.
Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by LASR on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:20PM (#26960997)
Lots of assumptions in your comment. They happen to be very wrong.

Maybe as a default position, you should assume less about someone’s credentials based on hand gestures and haircuts.