Leo C. Stein 🦁 Profile picture
Physics Prof @ U of MS. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly @Caltech @MIT @Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him
Oct 16, 2017 5 tweets 2 min read
One cool bit of science you can learn from the #GravitationalWaves from neutron stars is about the "equation of state" of nuclear matter 1/? this is something that simply can't be measured directly in labs or colliders on Earth. Astronomy is the only direct way to measure it. 2/?