1 Spoonfull

[Arkaign]

Pretty cool

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/...ustisstrongerthansteel

 

[schneiderguy]

If you were to hold that empty teaspoon just one yard above the star's surface and drop it, it would strike the surface at 4.3 million mph. :Q

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
If you were to hold that empty teaspoon just one yard above the star's surface and drop it, it would strike the surface at 4.3 million mph. :Q

No it woon't. :laugh:

 

[keird]

This my ammunition for my rail gun.

 

[waggy]

great read.

 

[tboo]

Those facts are almost mind boggling!

 

[Balt]

I guess that means I can only bench two spoons then.

 

[KK]

100 million tons. That seems impossible. Only so many molecules could be contained in a spoon, if you pack them in with no spaces I don't see how it could way that much. I dunno.

 

[Freshgeardude]

space is just amazing in general

 

[Freshgeardude]

Originally posted by: KK
100 million tons. That seems impossible. Only so many molecules could be contained in a spoon, if you pack them in with no spaces I don't see how it could way that much. I dunno.

black hole.


black holes from what we know is just compressed matter

 

[bdude]

Originally posted by: KK
100 million tons. That seems impossible. Only so many molecules could be contained in a spoon, if you pack them in with no spaces I don't see how it could way that much. I dunno.

Atoms are mostly empty space. Just as crazy a thought.

So imagine instead of that empty space, pack it with neutrons.

 

[SagaLore]

There is no spoon.

 

[Jeff7]

I'm going to guess...neutron star......



Yay!

Originally posted by: bdude

Originally posted by: KK
100 million tons. That seems impossible. Only so many molecules could be contained in a spoon, if you pack them in with no spaces I don't see how it could way that much. I dunno.

Atoms are mostly empty space. Just as crazy a thought.

So imagine instead of that empty space, pack it with neutrons.

And of course, your atoms never really touch anything you get close to. Like two magnets repelling one another, it's just electric repulsion keeping your atoms from getting very close.


But yes, the vast majority of matter is just empty space.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: bdude

Originally posted by: KK
100 million tons. That seems impossible. Only so many molecules could be contained in a spoon, if you pack them in with no spaces I don't see how it could way that much. I dunno.

Atoms are mostly empty space. Just as crazy a thought.

So imagine instead of that empty space, pack it with neutrons.

Nod. I normally hate analogies which make science relatable for the masses but one that really raised my eyebrows was that if a neutron / proton were the size of a marble, the electron(s) in its atom's orbit would be cross-sections of human hair 20+ miles away.

 

[OUCaptain]

Would the tea spoon weigh 100 million tons over the neutron star or on earth. Are they stating mass or weight.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
If you were to hold that empty teaspoon just one yard above the star's surface and drop it, it would strike the surface at 4.3 million mph. :Q

No it woon't. :laugh:

This source shows a calculation of the acceleration due to gravity on a neutron star being 1.86 trillion m/sec^2 and giving the same 4.3 million miles per hour figure for a 1 meter drop.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Ast...60/Neutron-Stars-2.htm

 

[ScottyB]

So, it's just like my penis then?

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
So, it's just like my penis then?

The size of a spoonful?

Sounds right.

 

[Baked]

The only thing denser is a black hole. God's anus = black hole?

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
So, it's just like my penis then?

collapsed and untouched?

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: KK
100 million tons. That seems impossible. Only so many molecules could be contained in a spoon, if you pack them in with no spaces I don't see how it could way that much. I dunno.

Neutron stars create such a strong gravitational field that the ONLY thing that produces a stronger field is a black hole, which is so strong it rips matter apart. It isn't surprising to think that a neutron star could pack matter in a density that we can't even conceive of.

 

[TridenT]

Yeah well... One teapsoon of a blackhole is infinite. So thar, in ur face.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Yeah well... One teapsoon of a blackhole is infinite. So thar, in ur face.

Something never stood right with the concept of blackholes to me. Obviously, the matter cannot disintegrate to nothingness. This may mean that a blackhole can only get larger, eventually consuming the entire universe. However, it has been shown that every galaxy has a blackhole at its center, just like every rapidly circular movement has a vortex in the center. Hence, it must be turned to pure energy and released on the otherside.

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Yeah well... One teapsoon of a blackhole is infinite. So thar, in ur face.

Something never stood right with the concept of blackholes to me. Obviously, the matter cannot disintegrate to nothingness. This may mean that a blackhole can only get larger, eventually consuming the entire universe. However, it has been shown that every galaxy has a blackhole at its center, just like every rapidly circular movement has a vortex in the center. Hence, it must be turned to pure energy and released on the otherside.

Uh, you should read about them. I think you'd be interested. Matter doesn't just go into nothingness. It's all there, slowly falling into the black hole from a distant viewer, and already torn into subatomic particles in the reference frame of the fallen objects. Black holes supposedly emit radiation, too. This hawking radiation is what keeps microblackholes from growing.

 

[Agentbolt]

The crust is basically a solid shell of neutrons, right? Neutron stars were always my favorite Astronomy Thing. Black holes are pretty easy to understand/explain, but Neutron stars are just plain weird.