Who's afraid of a big bad rock?

[Typhonis 1]

The stufgf may just have been NAMED neutronium without it being made from a neutron star a hyper dense material that was researched and created they were looking for a name and someone could have said"Man this stuff could have come from a neutron star its so dense"thus it was named neutronium.

[AdmiralKanos]

--Speaking of titles, I don't susposed someone would be kind enough to change my current title of newbie to something else. Perferably not youngling, village idiot, or forum bitch...

You get "youngling" when you hit 50 posts. Most of the ranks are automatic. "Village Idiot" was awarded specially to Darkstar because of a series of debates in which he declared victory by simply ignoring all rebuttals and refusing to acknowledge that the red herring "nitpick" fallacy is, in fact, a fallacy.

In short, ranks are not normally handed out manually. They're mostly based on post count.

[Nova Andromeda]

--Okay, I've found the atomic nuclei model:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hb ... ll.html#c1

--Since this model supports my fast neutron decay hypothesis we are probably left with options 1 and 2 Darth Wong suggested.

--Who said quantum physics was difficult...

[Luke Hares]

Sorry - out for the weekend - clearly missed most of the debate...

But,

I'm pretty confident that your basic degenerate matter as found in neutron stars the galaxy over does behave as I expected - ie too little of it in one place and promptly reverts to your basic ordinary matter - so no small non sphereical chunks floating about the place thank you. You also can't plate it onto things - it'll all promptly flow round your fixings and you'll end up with a blob of it somewhere. Most scientific circles have also apparently stopped calling this stuff neutronium, probably because of debates like this one!

So what everybody is actually arguing about is the properties of some artifically manufactured hyperdense material, nominally some kind of vast artifically nuclear structure. Go for it.. but infer its properties from actual on screen, in book, whatever performace, not inadequate psuedo physically arguments - I remember enough of my theoretical physics to know that if you're not swapping equations when talking about this stuff you're not doing it properly.

All that said we can deduce a number of things about Neutronium(tm) so why no attempt to codify a few of them?