i have a hypothetical question and i dont need u to point out that its probably impossible im just bored and thought this up lol.i just wondered if u had an electron star and a proton star and u put the proton star next to the neutron star and had the elctron star orbitting them,wouldnt u have amde a huge atom of hydrogen?i dont care if u just want the 2 points also.it doesnt matter to me im just curious lol.
2006-07-19 11:30:37 · 11 answers · asked by chevyman502 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Sorry, this system is absolutely impossible. Stars are held together by gravity alone, and the electromagnetic force is about 10 to the 23rd times stronger than gravity, so your electron star especially would explode before it could form, as well as your proton star, even though it would be ~1800 times heavier. Also, electrons don't really orbit the nucleus, they are standing waves about the nucleus, to the closest approximation. Furthermore, the orbital speed of your electron star around your proton star would have to be so fast to counteract the gigantic attractive force between the two that it would probably exceed the speed of light. But I agree, it is fun to think about!
2006-07-19 11:44:39 · answer #1 · answered by Sciencenut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sciencenut is right. Neither a proton star nor an electron star can exist because gravity could not overcome the repulsion of the charged particles. The star never would accrete into a mass in the first place.
It's got me wondering, though, whether there might be such a thing as an electric field "Swartzschild radius" for opposite charged particles only. Hmm...
2006-07-19 11:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by David S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Proton Star
2016-11-14 04:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by proto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing in the laws of physics that prohibits a positively or negatively charged star. If the star's density is too low and the charge too high then the star will fly apart. However, if the density is high enough the charge is irrelevant. General relativity dictates that such a star will collapse to form a charged black hole. However, this is not likely to happen in any "real life" situation.
Even if such stars existed, the system you describe would not be stable. Any object in orbit is being accelerated by gravity, and when a charged object is accelerated it emits EM waves. This would cause the charged star to lose kinetic energy and eventually spiral into one of its companion stars.
This is the same reason why the structure of the atom was so mysterious before the development of quantum physics. Classically, the electron should emit radiation and spiral inward.
2006-07-19 11:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by Aaron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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i have a hypothetical question and i dont need u to point out that its probably impossible im just bored and thought this up lol.i just wondered if u had an electron star and a proton star and u put the proton star next to the neutron star and had the elctron star orbitting them,wouldnt u have amde...
2015-08-08 17:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Gravity is a much weaker force than the electrostatic repulsion you'd get from a large mass of protons or electrons. It wouldn't hold together. The reason you get a neutron star from a large enough mass of ordinary neutral matter, made of protons, neutrons and electrons is that gravity squashes the electrons and protons together and converts them into neutrons.
2006-07-19 15:20:28 · answer #6 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is pretty much made up of hydrogen neuclei (protons), so I guess you could say the sun was a "proton" star. Electrons are mere wisps of stuff and they repel each other so I don't see how they could stick together to form an "electron" star. As far as your macromolecular question goes, though, who knows? You saw the end scene of Men in Black? A whole galaxy contained in a little marble . . .
2006-07-19 11:46:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't most of the mass of a neutron star composed of protons, which have been "squeezed together" with their orbital electrons? Ie, a neutron star is mostly made from 99.99+% protons by mass?
2014-03-08 00:48:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to make a proton star, why bother with deuterium which has neutrons? jsut stick with hydrogen. And yes, it would be VERY hard to keep them together since they all are positively charged.
2016-03-19 12:06:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "proton star" or "neutron star" cannot exist, since in the universe there is only equality and no monopoles can exist.
A neutron star can exist since it is neutral. A proton / electron star cannot exist, and therefore you could not make the described "huge atom of hydrogen".
[NOTE: Of course, this is not a known fact, and can only be THEORETICALLY stated, so it is open for discussion... ;)]
2006-07-19 11:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋