• Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest material in the universe
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuclear-pasta-neutron-stars-may-be-strongest-material-universe?tgt=nr
So Thor's hammer? Neat.
Leave it in boiling water for 10 minutes and it'll be soft
Talk about al dente.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_UA3s-jTdc
Problem is that a teaspoon of the stuff weighs as much as new york
But can I eat it?
You first
Neutron stars are already some of the craziest shit in the universe. Some of them might even be composed of quantum particles, making them quark stars. Whatever properties those things have must be beyond anything we could reasonably imagine
It'll be pretty funny if there are some potential investors who read a headline like this and ask the researchers to pursue practical uses of it. If you know anything about neutron stars, you will know why this is an impossible proposition.
No, any macro level observable neutron star density mass will immediately explode when taken out of the neutron stars sphere of influence.
Delicious
Wouldn't just immediately explode out if you took if off the neutron star though? It's only kept that way by the immense gravity surely? Someone summon JohnnyMo
The forbidden noodle
It'll explode with flavor.
So marginally less dense than your average Trump supporter.
I was wondering about this, actually. Is it the strongest material because of its own structure when taken in a vacuum divorced from gravity? Or is it simply that strong because the gravity is ridiculous and virtually unconquerable? Or, more to the point, is there a meaningful difference there when it comes to physical properties?
both. It's strong because it's so densely packed due to gravity forcing it to be, and it's also strong because of gravity forcing the neutrons into a grid where only degeneracy pressure keeps everything from collapsing in on itself. When it's "divorced" from gravity as you speak of it explodes because things at high pressure have a bunch of energy stored up and want to get to a low energy state, in this case so much energy is trapped inside it it just goes kaboom.
The city, or the state? This is important.
now that's a spicy meatball!
What if this pasta gets spaghettified in a black hole?
Pasta^2 finally becomes a reality, kickstarting Italy's path towards intergalactic domination.
I thought quantum particles were just normal particles?
Should have put it more plainly as 'subatomic' particles, but that really doesn't explain much since neutrons already fit that bill despite not being 'quantum.' More specifically I meant quarks, as in quark stars can exist. Such as strange stars, which would be made up of strange quarks (if they actually exist). @Headhumpy I know you're a chemist and not a quantum physicist but you should get this much
Yeah, explode with flavour. Smh
but can jet fuel melt nuclear pasta?
if you mouse over his avatar in beat with the music it gets even better
If we can get a petition going to drink some bone juice from a coffin, we can surely get one to taste Nuclear pastas
This is what I was thinking. It's only stable because of the immense gravity. It's that strong only because of gravity.
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