Neutron Star

Surely a flake from a neutron star would piece the earth with it having a
small service area and being so heavy

DemoDisk wrote:

I'm new here, so please excuse, but what would happen to the material in a
neutron star if it could be separated from the rest? Wouldn't a 30-ton mass
explode into whatever volume it formerly occupied before gravity collapsed
the star? Would it be 30 tons of dust [Hoovering joke to follow], or does
the neutron star create an entirely new form of matter?

Those are good questions. Neutron stars are supposed to be made of a
special state of matter called "neutronium", but I don't think it's
"entirely new" in that it works pretty much like a gigantic atomic
nucleus. It wouldn't be stable without the enormous gravitational
strength of some large 'critical mass', on the order of the Sun's. I
don't know how one would go about breaking a piece off, but I suppose
that if one could it would behave pretty much like a thermonuclear
device -- or a 'micro-star'!

See http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707230.

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DemoDisk wrote:

I'm new here, so please excuse, but what would happen to the material in a
neutron star if it could be separated from the rest? Wouldn't a 30-ton mass
explode into whatever volume it formerly occupied before gravity collapsed
the star? Would it be 30 tons of dust [Hoovering joke to follow], or does
the neutron star create an entirely new form of matter?

Those are good questions. Neutron stars are supposed to be made of a
special state of matter called "neutronium", but I don't think it's
"entirely new" in that it works pretty much like a gigantic atomic
nucleus. It wouldn't be stable without the enormous gravitational
strength of some large 'critical mass', on the order of the Sun's. I
don't know how one would go about breaking a piece off, but I suppose
that if one could it would behave pretty much like a thermonuclear
device -- or a 'micro-star'!

See http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707230.

So what is the minimum stable mass? About the same as the sun? Judging
by the suitably astronomical size of the explosion these people are
talking about that sounds right.
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How slow does a clock tick on the surface of a neutron star?. How much
more distance is created by a neutron star spinning around 50 times in
one second from its equator to its center? How much stronger is the
gravity field at the poles? Can a small piece of a neutron star exist
in space,or would it decay into hydrogen atoms? Can a neutron star get
fat,and someday be as heavy as a blackhole? Does a neutron star
have an horizon with physical properties,like the blackhole horizon.
Do we need and equation like the Schwarzchild radius used for
blackholes? Could we just say a neutron star with three times more mass
density would be a blackhole Bert

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:
How slow does a clock tick on the surface of a neutron star?. How much
more distance is created by a neutron star spinning around 50 times in
one second from its equator to its center? How much stronger is the
gravity field at the poles? Can a small piece of a neutron star exist
in space,or would it decay into hydrogen atoms? Can a neutron star get
fat,and someday be as heavy as a blackhole? Does a neutron star
have an horizon with physical properties,like the blackhole horizon.
Do we need and equation like the Schwarzchild radius used for
blackholes? Could we just say a neutron star with three times more mass
density would be a blackhole Bert


How slow does a clock tick? its really how fast. Time accelerates near
massive boddies.

t = t0*sqrt( 1 - v²/c²) if i remember. Where t is the adjusted time,
t0 is the original time.

To find the time you can use newtonian mechanics to do it.

Yoyoma_2 wrote:

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:

How slow does a clock tick on the surface of a neutron star?. How much
more distance is created by a neutron star spinning around 50 times in
one second from its equator to its center? How much stronger is the
gravity field at the poles? Can a small piece of a neutron star exist
in space,or would it decay into hydrogen atoms? Can a neutron star get
fat,and someday be as heavy as a blackhole? Does a neutron star
have an horizon with physical properties,like the blackhole horizon.
Do we need and equation like the Schwarzchild radius used for
blackholes? Could we just say a neutron star with three times more mass
density would be a blackhole Bert


How slow does a clock tick? its really how fast. Time accelerates near
massive boddies.

Oops thats slows down, sorry i just woke up