Monday, February 19, 2007

Getting denser!

For gold, r(critical) becomes 0.7*10**9km (a shining blackhole!); for platinum, it is 0.55*10**9km.
Now going a bit celestial, the density of a neutron star is known to be in the range of 0.5*10**15gm/cc as they are supposed to contain one solar mass per ball of 20km diameter!
Still one takes the core at which gravitation collapses to a steady state, it is about 10**12 kg/cc or 10**15 gm/cc, said to be close to the density of a typical nucleus! i.e double that of a neutron star. Compare it with that of the neutron I had estimated to be! 5*10**136 gm/cc (at least).

srini

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