Do you guys think we will ever be able to obtain neutronium or it is nothing more than hipotetical thing
Lots of elements were first discovered in stars before we found or distilled them on earth.
you mean, like, a bare neutron??
>>16386779Or a substance made purely of neutrons. Dineutron, where each particle is a pair of neutrons, is the only one that's not purely hypothetical, it has been detected in experiments but is unstable and very short lived
>>16386658Probably exists in Blackholes, but we'll never get it. Unless the Black hole is just one giant atom.
Neutrons have a half life of like half an hour, so even if you did get say 1 gram of it, it would immediately start changing into protons and would blow itself apart from electric repulsion... so good luck with that
>>16388569That kind of shit isn't very interesting. A clump of neutrons cannot form any matter worth seeking or that can be maintained.
The only way to make neutrons on their own is when a star dies:https://www.space.com/22180-neutron-stars.html
>>16388606Isn't that because we live in constant stream of particles that penetrate all the matter?
>>16386658"neutronium" beams are literally used for imaging proteins
neutron stars?
>>16388606Only unbound. Neutrons bound together should be stable.
>>16386658It's not hypothetical, just look at neutron stars. They're basically made of neutronium with huge electron rivers flowing on the surface as does water on Earth. Neutrons are only stable in extreme conditions, where the gravity is so powerful it's energetically more feasible for electrons to combine with protons. Neutrons also become stable when paired with a proton, which is extremely interesting. Why is the neutron stabilized against beta decay once paired with a proton? Deuterium is an example of a simplest system containing one proton, one neutron and one electron. Possibly the best for studying the interactions between atomic contents. Neutrons apparently decay because the proton is an accesible, less massive state in standard conditions. Okay, but what kind of interaction causes neutrons to be observationally stable once paired when a proton? It seems the proton-neutron-electron system begins to be governed by different laws once they come together.
