When I was a kid, after I read a Wrinkle in Time and thought about alternate worlds being neat, I would read about neutron stars in our set of Encyclopedia Britannicas. Boy, with all that gravity, it'd be a crazy place to be. The whole dying from heat thing wasn't part of the thought. I thought it'd be a blue dense place full of short, squat things.
It was a set from the early 60s, so I'd learn about how some day we hoped to go to the Moon and such things.
Also, I never learned what the neutron dance was.
Edited, May 15th 2009 8:32pm by Annabella