black holes

The author uses imagery very well in this piece. They paint the picture of the stars and use size comparisons to Earth to put it all into prospective. One of my favorite lines is “A neutron star’s gravitational pull is so severe that if you were to drop a marshmallow on it, the impact would generate as much energy as an atom bomb.” It really puts the whole idea into perspective and how little our Earth would be compared to other stars. To keep attention the author the author uses references to the atomic bomb as a comparison of the energy that stars have. The author also uses a bit of a cliff hanger. On the second page he keeps breaking down the material until nothing. He then explains what we have figured out so far. His cliffhanger at the beginning of the paper really made me want to read more. I thought the history was interesting as he built to the idea that made me think the most. The idea that gravity can trump time. This really made me think about our universe and continue to read the paper until the end. The ending of the paper is very well done I think. The author introduces the idea of the multiverse. The fact that there could be thousands of universes that all exist and black holes connect them seems impossible. The author uses only scientific data in his paper so these aren’t ideas he made up. What ultimately kept my attention was these ideas that made me think about how small humans are.