Timeline for Can we create neutron star by pressing earth? Or other objects?
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| Jan 4, 2018 at 22:31 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Try dropping Earth onto a large neutron star. Sure, it'd be messy, and a head-on collision may simply blast a lot of the matter back into space, but if you got the angle right I reckon you'd convert a fair proportion of the Earth matter to neutronium. (I specified a large neutron star so that the non-neutronium crust is minimal). | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 6:37 | comment | added | Martin54 | Impossible? Do you know clarke's three laws? :) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 22:59 | comment | added | James K | No that is done on purpose. The impossibilty of compressing matter into neutronium is not a technical limit. It is due to the fact that our tools are made of matter and are limited by their nature. The only way to create the compression required is to use tools that are not made of matter. Ie Magic. | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 21:33 | comment | added | Anders Sandberg | I wish the answer did not use the word "impossible" without the proper qualifiers. The first paragraph makes a very strong claim without backing it up. It might well be true, but that requires either an argument or the honest admission "that requires technology or some physics we do not know about". | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 21:00 | vote | accept | Martin54 | ||
| Jan 3, 2018 at 20:44 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2018 at 20:41 | comment | added | ProfRob | 5th paragraph is inaccurate. A neutron star could be made that was about 0.15 solar masses. physics.stackexchange.com/questions/143166/… | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 19:34 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2018 at 18:34 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |