Re: Two neutron stars on a collision course?

"Tim Little" <tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:slrnfsjpjh.5sc.tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 2008-03-01, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I imagine even in a head-on collision there'd be a lot of
>> "spray". Since neutron star material isn't stable in the absence of
>> neutron star gravity, might the decay of all that neutronium produce
>> a significant amount of energy?
>
> That paper I mentioned calculated that a barely-stable neutron star
> losing a tiny bit of mass would cause it to explode with supernova
> energy in a very short time.  So I'd say it's very likely.

Hey, we need to figure out how to make a bomb using this principle.  We 
could call it the Neutron Bomb.

What?  Oh.  Darn.

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