Can neutrons be isolated and accumulated? How would a glass full of neutrons look like?
Can neutrons be isolated and accumulated? How would a glass full of neutrons look like?
Nathaniel White
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Kayden Reed
yup, neutron stars are huge spheres made of neutrons.
Brody Taylor
neutron is a meme
Dominic Jones
The answer is yes, though you should be reminded that neutrons decay and have a half-life of about 11 minutes.
It's possible to slow neutrons down from some source (usually produced by an accelerator) and trap them magnetically. There's no way to make them as dense as you're imagining though. A cold neutron gas that lasts less than an hour is the absolute best we can do.
Gabriel Price
>Can neutrons be isolated and accumulated?
I guess? That is pretty much all that your brain is at least.
>How would a glass full of neutrons look like?
Like a cup full of your brain?
Ryder Martin
I am not inundated with physics to any real degree, so I;m not comfortable prefacing this with "It's my understanding that...". Regardless:
Neutrons can be accumulated, and they are, in neutron stars. However, neutrons repel each other by the pauli exclusion principle and cannot be corralled in earth conditions. In the case of a neutron star, we have the immense gravity of the star to counteract this.
Caleb Reyes
I thought protons were the meme.
Angel Morgan
You are confusing neutron(particle) with neuron(cell).
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Luis Johnson
nope
Connor Murphy
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