Why do hospital boards consist of some people that aren't doctors? Why does the library commission consist of some people that have nothing to do with the library?
They do this to give popular insight on a system that would be too closed-minded otherwise.
It's good for a couple of minutes of entertainment, but I'm sure that most slashdotters can figure it out before five minutes. I was confused on how this was supposed to represent 4 dimensions until I saw that the up to down part of the grid represents the 3rd dimension and the left to right part of the grid represents the 4th dimension (time, or what have you) - or vice versa. So I guess it really IS a 4d maze in a very very very limited fashion of the phrase.
That's what the ESO article says (about interstellar dust accretion). I tend not to agree with this simple explanation. Any neutron star can accrete interstellar dust - so why aren't they just as hot? There just isn't enough matter in interstellar space to "light-up" a neutron star that brightly.
Remember good old Cygnus X-1? It's X-ray outpouring couldn't be explained until it was discovered that it was in binary.
I think that in the coming months we will see that this NS has some sort of companion, or that the X-ray source does not actually belong to this particular NS.
So the neutron star emits X-rays...
from what I remember from my stellar astrophysics class, doesn't that imply mass transfer?
Is it possible that this NS has an unidentified partner?
I also remember that there is a significant number of neutrons stars that aren't pulsars, most significantly those that are NOT in binaries, as RX J1856.5-3754 seems not to be in.
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Why do hospital boards consist of some people that aren't doctors? Why does the library commission consist of some people that have nothing to do with the library?
They do this to give popular insight on a system that would be too closed-minded otherwise.
It's good for a couple of minutes of entertainment, but I'm sure that most slashdotters can figure it out before five minutes. I was confused on how this was supposed to represent 4 dimensions until I saw that the up to down part of the grid represents the 3rd dimension and the left to right part of the grid represents the 4th dimension (time, or what have you) - or vice versa. So I guess it really IS a 4d maze in a very very very limited fashion of the phrase.
That's what the ESO article says (about interstellar dust accretion). I tend not to agree with this simple explanation. Any neutron star can accrete interstellar dust - so why aren't they just as hot?
There just isn't enough matter in interstellar space to "light-up" a neutron star that brightly.
Remember good old Cygnus X-1? It's X-ray outpouring couldn't be explained until it was discovered that it was in binary.
I think that in the coming months we will see that this NS has some sort of companion, or that the X-ray source does not actually belong to this particular NS.
So the neutron star emits X-rays...
from what I remember from my stellar astrophysics class, doesn't that imply mass transfer?
Is it possible that this NS has an unidentified partner?
I also remember that there is a significant number of neutrons stars that aren't pulsars, most significantly those that are NOT in binaries, as RX J1856.5-3754 seems not to be in.
I live 20 miles away from Carlsbad. No wonder the salt in my soup tasted a little stale.