Re: Two neutron stars on a collision course?

On 2008-03-06, Crown-Horned Snorkack <chornedsnorkack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Probably nickel.

Oh, right.  Nickel-62 in particular.  For some reason I had thought
that Iron-56 had lowest energy per nucleon, but it seems that's third.


> But the conversion would be extremely slow. Nuclear fusion and
> fission require high temperature and density for a prolonged time.

High density?  Densities don't get much higher than that.

High temperatures?  Yes, absolutely.

Prolonged time?  Given the conditions of the expansion, certainly.


- Tim