Recent content by spmodoc

The star reference is not really about fusion, I understand fission v fusion and iron and all, I was referring to the gravity it takes to keep neutrons from decaying, there is surely a threshold gravity that may or may not exist, and correct me if I'm wrong, but larger starts are, as a rule...

LOL, just a bunch of math jibberish. Why do people do that when they can't answer the question in laymens terms? I know what half life is, its a bell curve of decay and 10 min would mean half went poof. But a few might survive hours or days, and we are talking about a lot of tiny bits here...

Thanks for answering, but if free neutrons have a 10 min. halflife, how do they form neutron starts? Is not 20min enough time for at least some of them to fall to Earth's center? Seems they would fall pretty quickly. If gravity stabilizes neutrons, as in a neutron star, is there a threshold...

Don't think me silly, but the first question is, where do excess neutrons go? If I do a fission reaction and get protons they are just ionized hydrogen atoms, a free electron is just a negative charge to find a free proton somewhere. But since a neutron can't get back in a nucleus, where does...