If ordinary matter accretes onto a neutron star it becomes degenerate and turns into neutrons. If you reversed the process by scooping up some neutrons (density 2 billion tonnes/cubic cm.) and removing them from the neutron star's intense gravitational field, what would they reconstitute as?
2007-04-23 12:58:48 · 8 answers · asked by zee_prime 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Althought it's an interesting question, I don't think it really works. You can't unbake a cake.
They are neutrons, any information as to what they once were has been lost, it literally is just a blob of neutral particles.
2007-04-23 13:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by TheUKDave 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Neutron stars have not have been given any gasoline. they are the effect of a extreme-mass megastar demise, mutually as no longer leaving a black hollow in the back of. Neutron stars kind because of the fact the protons and electrons interior the middle of a megastar are pushed mutually lots they fuse right into a neutron. those neutrons are so compressed mutually that each and everything interior the megastar rebounds off the neutrons inflicting a kind 2 supernova. If the megastar replaced into great sufficient, it may ruin the neutrons to a smaller entity, forming a black hollow. so which you will possibly be able to desire to sum it up, a neutron megastar isn't a residing megastar, purely a quickly rotating middle of a megastar that has died.
2016-10-28 19:21:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the gravity and pressures to hold the neutrons together they would fly apart at close to the speed of light. Some would decay to sub atomic particles, some would collide with ordinary matter and cause those atoms to break apart, some of those atoms would absorb the neutrons, the rest would streak out into space and eventually decay into a Proton, and Electron.
2007-04-23 14:15:28 · answer #3 · answered by MSG 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A neutron in a neutron star is no different than a neutron on earth.
2007-04-24 04:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They probably wouldn't turn into any kind of atomic matter for some time. However, over time the neutrons may decay into electrons and protons, which would probably form hydrogen more likely than anything else.
2007-04-23 13:27:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A neutron is a neutron is a neutron.... Removing them from a neutron star won't affect that at all.
2007-04-23 13:03:50 · answer #6 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
one teaspoon of the material of a neutron star would weigh as much as a mountain :) if you dropped it, it would go completely through the earth to the other side and back and never stop.
2007-04-23 13:02:36 · answer #7 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) You can't
2) There is no theory which could predict the outcome
2007-04-23 13:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋