If I could through you a neutron star the size of a baseball,what would happen when you catch it???

Question

Say anything is possible,just for now...Thanks

Imaginaton is key..Thanks again

Answer 1

What would happen if I were to CATCH it? My body would collapse and hit the surface of that little neutron star ball with the force of a small atomic bomb. It's bad news for me, but no problem for the ball.

Answer 2

Nope, imagination leads to colorful guesses. Let's look at facts.

OK, instead of a neutron star (which can not exist in the size you want) let's say we have an object, the size of a baseball with the density of a neutron star.

A baseball has a radius of 3.660563691 cm or a volume of 205.4624736 cubic cm. The density of a Neutron star is between 8E13 and 2E15 grams/cubic cm. Using the highest figure because I want to, that gives your "neutron basball" a mass of 4.10925E+17 grams or 4.10925E+14 kg.

With that radius and mass we can calculate the gravity of your baseball, which comes out to 2.05E+07 meters/sec/sec or 2.09E+06 times that of Earth.

Now, that sucks!

I am going to assume (I am assuming a lot, but I have to) that you are 3 meters from me when you throw the ball (and are protected from it's gravity and tidal forces buy a super-duper-anti-gravity suit you borrowed).

At three meters, the gravitation forces on me would be 3.05E+03 meters/sec/sec or 3.11E+02 times that of Earth Since I don't have your anti- gravity suit, as soon as the ball left your hands I would be pulled towards it with a force of over 300 times the gravity of the Earth.

The tidal forces would first stretch me out like cooked pasta a brief instant before the radius of the ball grew by maybe a millimeter of pure me.

So, I would never catch the ball. There goes my dreams of a career in the majors.

Answer 3

I would jump for joy and capitalize on my fame for being the man to have caught the heaviest baseball in the history of the universe!

On a side note, I could calculate how fast you threw the ball at me by counting the revolutions of light coming from the baseball... assuming it doesn't blind me.

Answer 4

I'd never make the catch because the immense x-radiation and thermal temperature of the neutron star would fry me long before it got near.

Answer 5

It would be real heavy and i will most likely get suck by it. As it is so small, i will not get suck into it as its gravity is not strong enough for that kind of effect. Whats more, the size of the star is too small for the gravity between my feet and head to tear me apart.
If it was a black hole, then....blarrk!

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

One teaspoon of matter from a neutron star would weigh as much as mount Everest.
You would ruin your catchers mitt!

Answer 7

Neutron Star:
http://www.bjp.org.cn/apod/glossary.htm

If you could throw it to me, it would pull me apart before it ever reached me. The are relatively cool, very small, and VERY VERY dense "old' stars. This is one of the ways a star can spend its old age...

Som of the "pulse" as they rotate, and those are called "Pulsars"

Mack

Answer 8

You'd better catch it in the webbing of your mitt or it will hurt like Hell.

Answer 9

you can not trough it.. it would be something like trying to through a much heavier earth.. (taking earth in example because you live at it and you know you can not through it)..

catching it will be more like falling in it.. and get sucked in it..

Answer 10

I'm glad someone did the math so I didn't have to bother, thank you walking man!!