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Saturday, November 17, 2012

supernova nuclear blasts produce a paste


When dying stars detonate as supernovae, spread out a shock wave lead the so-called "rebound" - matter and elementary particles are compressed towards the center of the star to achieve the density that come into play in the nuclear force.

In the development of a supernova nuclear particles can create different and often bizarre forms, such as rods, plates or vials and long threads - which gave the name to this phenomenon, associated with the famous Italian pasta. Creating a "paste" because in the dying star DIURNAL two types of forces - the Coulomb revulsion of the same charges and nuclear forces of attraction.


Dzhirina Stone of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her student, Helen Pace is currently working on a new computer model that assumes the appearance of another, a new form, reminiscent of the "cross" or "phase of the paste in the form of a double bow-tie ', as they say in jest of it by their colleagues.

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