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muriel_volestrangler

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7. Hey, you guys should be looking at neutron stars
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:14 AM
Jan 2016
Studies of low density nuclear matter have found that
the attractive-repulsive interplay of nuclear and Coulomb
forces drive low-density nuclear matter to form nonuniform
structures which are collectively known as “nuclear
pasta”. Such arrangements go from condensed
phases with voids filled with nuclear gas, to “lasagnalike”
layers of nuclei surrounded by gas, to “spaghettilike”
rods embedded in a nuclear gas, to ever decreasing
“meatball-like” clumps which practically dissolve into a
gaseous phase [2].
...
To investigate this point further, we created artifi-
cial structures in the form of gnocchi, spaghetti, lasagna
and crossed-lasagnas, which we call “jungle gym”, and
their inverse structures (with voids replacing particles
and viceversa) and calculated the values of the two topological
variables; some of the structures used are shown in
figure 12 and their location in the Curvature-Euler plane
in figure 13.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4793.pdf

It's not just that paper; that really is how scientists have been talking about neutron star structure for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta

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