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Posted on 08/02/2016 8:05:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Do neutron stars contain exotic matter in the form of dense deconfined quark matter? Scientists performed the first accurate determination of the thermodynamic properties of dense quark matter under violent conditions that occur during neutron star mergers, and suggest a step towards distinguishing between neutron and quark matter cores in neutron stars. The recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by two merging black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up a new observational window into the cosmos.
Future observations of similar mergers between two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole may revolutionize what we know today about the properties of neutron stars, the densest stellar objects in the universe. By providing detailed dynamical information about the material properties of these stars, such measurements will shed light on their internal composition.
- Ultimately, they may answer the question, whether neutron stars are composed solely of ordinary atomic nuclei, or if they contain more exotic matter in the form of dense deconfined quark matter, says physicist Aleksi Vuorinen at the University of Helsinki.
TOWARDS ACCURATE THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL In order to be able to properly take advantage of the future observational data, it is essential that our theoretical understanding of the possible constituents of neutron star matter - dense nuclear and quark matter - be as accurate as possible.
This is, however, an extremely challenging problem, as few first principle tools exist for studying such a strongly interacting medium due to the complexity of the underlying microscopic theory, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The most important tools available for such studies are so-called chiral effective theories for the nuclear interactions, applicable for nuclear matter, and thermal perturbation theory, applicable for deconfined quark matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at helsinki.fi ...
“If you fell off your barstool on a neutron star, you’d hit the floor at more than a million miles per hour... The magnetic fields are so great, they’d rip the iron right out of your blood (and body) from thousands of miles away.”
I really hate it when that happens!
“They applied thermal perturbation theory to a high order, generalizing previous work applicable only at zero temperature.”
They’re completely full of it.
Neutron stars do not exist.
Gravitational waves do not exist.
The whole purpose of this exercise is to make grand claims in the pursuit of government grant money, which under inspection are revealed to be not only entirely hypothetical, but also do not conform to actual observations of reality.
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That periodic table cracks me up.
I noticed the Five Families.
:^) It's an old fave. I also liked that fake world map that came with the National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor (circa 1974).
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