Invoking The Voyagers Against Id Options

[ljk4-1]

Cornell President Rawlings Condemns Intelligent Design

Drawing from sources ranging from Cornell's founders to Voyager
space missions, Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III condemned
the push to teach intelligent design in public schools Friday. The
attack came during the president's State of...

http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/...4/435c7762cf891


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[deglr6328]

Yes it would, but if you think in depth, the energy of the detonatoin would have to be BROUGHT IN the neutron star by the mechanism able to break it (it will have to yeld a tremendous amount of energy to split apart the parts of the neutron star.) So this is, I think, rather unlikely to happen, and coalescence of two neutron stars or black holes may just yeld larger neutron stars/black holes.

I don't know, imagine a neutron star orbiting a black hole within the Roche limit, material will be sucked off of the surface simillar to what is shown here. If the rate of material loss from the neutron star is sufficient that its mass falls below the critical degeneracy pressure limit before it falls past the schwartzchild radius then we should see an explosion. Though I am not a supercomputer so I could not tell you if this is theoretically feasible or not.

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

I don't know, imagine a neutron star orbiting a black hole within the Roche limit, material will be sucked off of the surface simillar to what is shown here. If the rate of material loss from the neutron star is sufficient that its mass falls below the critical degeneracy pressure limit before it falls past the schwartzchild radius then we should see an explosion. Though I am not a supercomputer so I could not tell you if this is theoretically feasible or not.

Perhaps a black hole is able to suck matter of a neutron star? In this case, the neutron star could become smaller than the minimum limit to form (about 1.3 solar mass). How much smaller? if the neutron star becomes too small, it cannot be sucked by the black hole, or it may fall in it completelly. Before it explodes?

[ljk4-1]

Perhaps a black hole is able to suck matter of a neutron star? In this case,  the neutron star could become smaller than the minimum limit to form (about 1.3 solar mass).  How much smaller? if the neutron star becomes too small, it cannot be sucked by the black hole, or it may fall in it completelly.  Before it explodes?

Have any neutron stars with (suspected) black hole companions been found?

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

Have any neutron stars with (suspected) black hole companions been found?

AS far as I know no, but I read speculations about that. A couple of black holes has been found, so that the phenomenon is not uncommon or impossible. From relativity, two massive objects in close orbit are not stable, and the orbits goes closer and closer, until the two bodies coalesce. There has been some studies about this, as such phenomenon are expected to be the most poweful source of transcient gravity waves.


The difficulty in removing mass to a neutron star is that it is already in a very low energy level (all its energy dissipated during the formation, mainly under the form of thermal neutrinos). So to make it explode we must first bring the energy of the explosion, so me need more energy to remove mass than what was dissipated during the formation. But of course if we succeed in doing so, the neutron star can explode. What deglr6328 proposed is that a black hole could do so.