Neutron star?

sean_s · Apr 17, 2012, 12:53 PM

not just iron, and the sea of electrons is not relevant here.

There is a limit, the limit of weak interactive force. This force works at a certain distance . If the distance of two interacting particles is lesser than the threshold, it breaks down, giving way to other forces. In a neutron star, the gravity causes the the nuclei to push against each other, pushing the outer electron shells closer to the nucleus. Thereby, the weak force gives way to first electromagnetic whereby ellectrons collide with protons, creating nuetrons and a neutrino, and then gradually to the strong interaction force, whereby the neutrons clump together.

zanderbaxa · Apr 27, 2012, 04:47 PM

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not just iron, and the sea of electrons is not relevant here.

There is a limit, the limit of weak interactive force. This force works at a certain distance . If the distance of two interacting particles is lesser than the threshold, it breaks down, giving way to other forces. In a neutron star, the gravity causes the the nuclei to push against each other, pushing the outer electron shells closer to the nucleus. Thereby, the weak force gives way to first electromagnetic whereby ellectrons collide with protons, creating nuetrons and a neutrino, and then gradually to the strong interaction force, whereby the neutrons clump together.

Does this also mean no light is emittrf from neutron stars because they have no electrons, only those impacting the mass from outside?

zanderbaxa · Apr 27, 2012, 05:08 PM

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Since they are no longer electrons, the only other thing neutron stars have is heat from its collapse (temperature). Therefore the light we see are other electrons entering the heat, around the star where the heat is the catalyst for transition in the atoms gravitating toward the star.

What I thought. Extending that to black-holes, then BHs may be gigantic masses (like neutron stars) not singularities. In that case they are black because they lack electrons and the event-horizon are the stimulated electrons (from its heat) as atoms impacting the mass.

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