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Old 01-April-2003, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Donnie B.
Good points all, Kaptain K.

One can always argue that the neutronium in question is not stable, but a slowly-decaying remnant of a larger chunk.
Physically untenable since you cannot separate out the stuff save for a catastrophic collision and even then the neutron star would have to be very close by. The rates of reaction would be phenomenally fast since there are no stable nuclei that last for more than microseconds above about 300 in atomic mass

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Or, some process or environmental condition is keeping it stable artifically (certainly plausible if it's a weapon rather than a natural object).
You're going to have to invent some new physics to do this.
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