Re: Two neutron stars on a collision course?

On 2008-03-03, Crown-Horned Snorkack <chornedsnorkack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The neutrons in the torn-out pieces decay over a period of 1000
> seconds.

That's a decay rate appropriate to isolated neutrons, but not to bulk
neutron matter.  The energy density in the pressure of a neutron star
core is far more than the energy of neutron decay anyway.


> Some beta-minus radioactive nuclei decay faster, but even the least
> stable of nuclei short of neutron dripline

All but the very upper surface of a neutron star is way, way beyond
the neutron dripline.


- Tim