Re: Two neutron stars on a collision course?

On 2008-03-07, Crown-Horned Snorkack <chornedsnorkack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> At densities which do not get much higher than that, what you have
> is stable neutron matter. The reason it turns into something else is
> that the densities have got lower.

Given any density range you like, there will be a time period during
which the system has that average density.


>> High temperatures?  Yes, absolutely.
>
> But matter cools on expansion.

Not always by much.  In particular, there will be a huge phase
transition as the density reduces enough to permit neutron decay, and
it slowly transforms to a mix of neutrons, protons, and electrons
while maintaining constant temperature.

That will be long before the temperature and density decrease enough
for discrete nuclei to condense out.


- Tim