Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-08 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 9:24:00 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 8:25 PM Lawrence Crowell  > wrote:
>
> On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:34:24 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
>>
>> * >> Wouldn't a small piece of a neutron star quickly explode via beta 
>>> decay?*
>>>
>>
>> >I worked this out using the old liquid drop model. A baseball sized 
>> neutron sphere would have a surface gravity of around 10^{14}m/s^2, as I 
>> recall, which is enough to drag weak decay positron products back.
>>
>
> If its made of neutronium, Neutron Star stuff, it would have to be bigger 
> than a baseball. We're looking for something about 10 times the mass of the 
> Earth or about 6 *10^25 kg, neutronium has a density of about 4*10^17 kg 
> per cubic meter, so you'd need 150,000,000 cubic meters of neutronium, that 
> would be a sphere with a radius of 350 meters, nearly half a mile across. 
> That's much bigger than a baseball but not large enough to keep it stable, 
> the gravity would be too weak to provide enough pressure to keep it stable.
>
> However planet 9 could be a "Stranglet", that is a body made of "Strange 
> Matter", a theorized form of matter made up of equal parts up, down and 
> strange quarks. If such a thing exists this hypothetical form of matter 
> would be even denser than neutronium and be stable even at zero pressure. 
> In fact it would be the most stable form of matter that there is, and that 
> means it would be just about the most dangerous thing there is. Strange 
> Matter, if it exists, would act as a catalyst and turn any ordinary matter 
> that comes into contact with it into more strange matter.
>
>  John K Clark
>

I did some calculations on this a while back using the liquid drop model of 
the nucleus. This is a semi-empirical model of a nucleus as a liquid with 
various properties. I then included gravity into the model, where for a 
certain threshold of mass it is possible to have a chunk of neutron star 
about the size of a baseball (a few inches or 5 cm in radius) and the mass 
of the moon. 

The strangelet in QCD phenomenology has an (uds) quark configuration 
similar to the Lambda hyperon. A strangelet may then be a nucleus of sorts 
made with hyperons in place of neutrons. A heavy neutron star may have a 
hyperon core, and such a neutron star in a collision could splash out 
strangelet material. These might have some pathological properties, such as 
catalyzing other nuclei to become "strange."

LC

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Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-08 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 8:25 PM Lawrence Crowell <
goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:34:24 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
>
> * >> Wouldn't a small piece of a neutron star quickly explode via beta
>> decay?*
>>
>
> >I worked this out using the old liquid drop model. A baseball sized
> neutron sphere would have a surface gravity of around 10^{14}m/s^2, as I
> recall, which is enough to drag weak decay positron products back.
>

If its made of neutronium, Neutron Star stuff, it would have to be bigger
than a baseball. We're looking for something about 10 times the mass of the
Earth or about 6 *10^25 kg, neutronium has a density of about 4*10^17 kg
per cubic meter, so you'd need 150,000,000 cubic meters of neutronium, that
would be a sphere with a radius of 350 meters, nearly half a mile across.
That's much bigger than a baseball but not large enough to keep it stable,
the gravity would be too weak to provide enough pressure to keep it stable.

However planet 9 could be a "Stranglet", that is a body made of "Strange
Matter", a theorized form of matter made up of equal parts up, down and
strange quarks. If such a thing exists this hypothetical form of matter
would be even denser than neutronium and be stable even at zero pressure.
In fact it would be the most stable form of matter that there is, and that
means it would be just about the most dangerous thing there is. Strange
Matter, if it exists, would act as a catalyst and turn any ordinary matter
that comes into contact with it into more strange matter.

 John K Clark

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Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-07 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:34:24 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
>
> Wouldn't a small piece of a neutron star quickly explode via beta decay?
>
> Brent
>

I worked this out using the old liquid drop model. A baseball sized neutron 
sphere would have a surface gravity of around 10^{14}m/s^2, as I recall, 
which is enough to drag weak decay positron products back.

LC
 

>
> On 11/7/2019 4:24 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
>
> I would say if this is something exotic it may be a piece of neutron star. 
> Neutron stars are largely a neutron liquid of sorts. When they collide this 
> splash may hurl pieces of neutron liquid the size of a baseball on up. This 
> baseball sized piece of neutron liquid would have the mass of our moon. 
> These objects may be more common that we might suppose. 
>
> LC
>
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 2:44:18 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: 
>>
>> Due to the odd orbits of recently discovered Trans-Neptunian objects 
>> astronomers say that, unless it's just a very unlikely coincidence, there 
>> is probably a unknown planet between 5 and 15 earth masses orbiting the sun 
>> between 300 and 1000 times as distant from the sun as earth's orbit is, but 
>> other than this indirect evidence optical telescopes have been unable to 
>> find the slightest trace of it. A new paper suggests that the reason it's 
>> so hard to find is that the gravitational mass may not be a planet at all 
>> but is a Primordial Black Hole about the size of your fist, and says we 
>> need to look for it with a Gamma Ray Telescope not the optical sort.
>>
>> What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? 
>> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf>
>>
>> The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment has detected ultra short micro 
>> lezing events caused by gravitational masses in the same range in the 
>> distant Magellanic  Cloud (a dwarf galaxy) that they assume were 
>> caused by free floating planets not connected to any star, but perhaps 
>> it was caused by something even more exotic like a Primordial  Black Hole. 
>>
>> Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment 
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment> 
>>
>> It's probably just a boring planet but maybe not, it would be GREAT if 
>> it turned out to be true, we could actually sent a robot spacecraft to 
>> explore a BlacK Hole, and if it used the sun grazing "Goddard orbit" to 
>> boost its speed it could get there in less than a decade.
>>
>> John K Clark
>>
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Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-07 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List

Wouldn't a small piece of a neutron star quickly explode via beta decay?

Brent

On 11/7/2019 4:24 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
I would say if this is something exotic it may be a piece of neutron 
star. Neutron stars are largely a neutron liquid of sorts. When they 
collide this splash may hurl pieces of neutron liquid the size of a 
baseball on up. This baseball sized piece of neutron liquid would have 
the mass of our moon. These objects may be more common that we might 
suppose.


LC

On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 2:44:18 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:

Due to the odd orbits of recently discovered Trans-Neptunian
objects astronomers say that, unless it's just a very unlikely
coincidence, there is probably a unknown planet between 5 and 15
earth masses orbiting the sun between 300 and 1000 times as
distant from the sun as earth's orbit is, but other than this
indirect evidence optical telescopes have been unable to find the
slightest trace of it. A new paper suggests that the reason it's
so hard to find is that the gravitational mass may not be a planet
at all but is a Primordial Black Hole about the size of your fist,
and says we need to look for it with a Gamma Ray Telescope not the
optical sort.

What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf>

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment has detected ultra
short micro lezing events caused by gravitational masses in the
same range in the distant Magellanic  Cloud (a dwarf galaxy)that
they assume were caused by free floating planets not connected to
any star, but perhaps it was caused by something even more exotic
like a Primordial Black Hole.

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment>


It's probably just a boring planet but maybe not, it would be
GREAT if it turned out to be true, we could actually sent a robot
spacecraft to explore a BlacK Hole, and if it used the sun grazing
"Goddard orbit" to boost its speed it could get there in less than
a decade.

John K Clark

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Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-07 Thread Lawrence Crowell
I would say if this is something exotic it may be a piece of neutron star. 
Neutron stars are largely a neutron liquid of sorts. When they collide this 
splash may hurl pieces of neutron liquid the size of a baseball on up. This 
baseball sized piece of neutron liquid would have the mass of our moon. 
These objects may be more common that we might suppose.

LC

On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 2:44:18 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:
>
> Due to the odd orbits of recently discovered Trans-Neptunian objects 
> astronomers say that, unless it's just a very unlikely coincidence, there 
> is probably a unknown planet between 5 and 15 earth masses orbiting the sun 
> between 300 and 1000 times as distant from the sun as earth's orbit is, but 
> other than this indirect evidence optical telescopes have been unable to 
> find the slightest trace of it. A new paper suggests that the reason it's 
> so hard to find is that the gravitational mass may not be a planet at all 
> but is a Primordial Black Hole about the size of your fist, and says we 
> need to look for it with a Gamma Ray Telescope not the optical sort.
>
> What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? 
> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf>
>
> The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment has detected ultra short micro 
> lezing events caused by gravitational masses in the same range in the 
> distant Magellanic  Cloud (a dwarf galaxy) that they assume were 
> caused by free floating planets not connected to any star, but perhaps it 
> was caused by something even more exotic like a Primordial  Black Hole.
>
> Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment> 
>
> It's probably just a boring planet but maybe not, it would be GREAT if it 
> turned out to be true, we could actually sent a robot spacecraft to explore 
> a BlacK Hole, and if it used the sun grazing "Goddard orbit" to boost its 
> speed it could get there in less than a decade.
>
> John K Clark
>

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Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-07 Thread ronaldheld
Not certain there is a planet 9, but my first choice would be a Superearth 
overall PBH.   Still need to rule it out.

On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 12:44:18 AM UTC-8, John Clark wrote:
>
> Due to the odd orbits of recently discovered Trans-Neptunian objects 
> astronomers say that, unless it's just a very unlikely coincidence, there 
> is probably a unknown planet between 5 and 15 earth masses orbiting the sun 
> between 300 and 1000 times as distant from the sun as earth's orbit is, but 
> other than this indirect evidence optical telescopes have been unable to 
> find the slightest trace of it. A new paper suggests that the reason it's 
> so hard to find is that the gravitational mass may not be a planet at all 
> but is a Primordial Black Hole about the size of your fist, and says we 
> need to look for it with a Gamma Ray Telescope not the optical sort.
>
> What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? 
> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf>
>
> The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment has detected ultra short micro 
> lezing events caused by gravitational masses in the same range in the 
> distant Magellanic  Cloud (a dwarf galaxy) that they assume were 
> caused by free floating planets not connected to any star, but perhaps it 
> was caused by something even more exotic like a Primordial  Black Hole.
>
> Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment> 
>
> It's probably just a boring planet but maybe not, it would be GREAT if it 
> turned out to be true, we could actually sent a robot spacecraft to explore 
> a BlacK Hole, and if it used the sun grazing "Goddard orbit" to boost its 
> speed it could get there in less than a decade.
>
> John K Clark
>

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Re: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-06 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List

No planet or frozen comet is boring if we can treat it as real estate, to be 
mined by your QC AI robots. "We go to the Moon, not because it is easy, but 
because it is hard." -John Kennedy I would push for the Moon out to the Oort 
Cloud to make a butt load of wealth for the entire species. If we can harvest 
the gravitational force of a primordial black hole to catapult it out to 
Proxima and Barnard's Star for similar pursuits, all the better! 

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Subject: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

Due to the odd orbits of recently discovered Trans-Neptunian objects 
astronomers say that, unless it's just a very unlikely coincidence, there is 
probably a unknown planet between 5 and 15 earth masses orbiting the sun 
between 300 and 1000 times as distant from the sun as earth's orbit is, but 
other than this indirect evidence optical telescopes have been unable to find 
the slightest trace of it. A new paper suggests that the reason it's so hard to 
find is that the gravitational mass may not be a planet at all but is a 
Primordial Black Hole about the size of your fist, and says we need to look for 
it with a Gamma Ray Telescope not the optical sort.
What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment has detected ultra short micro 
lezing events caused by gravitational masses in the same range in the distant 
Magellanic  Cloud (a dwarf galaxy) that they assume were caused by free 
floating planets not connected to any star, but perhaps it was caused by 
something even more exotic like a Primordial  Black Hole.
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment 
It's probably just a boring planet but maybe not, it would be GREAT if it 
turned out to be true, we could actually sent a robot spacecraft to explore a 
BlacK Hole, and if it used the sun grazing "Goddard orbit" to boost its speed 
it could get there in less than a decade.
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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

2019-11-06 Thread John Clark
Due to the odd orbits of recently discovered Trans-Neptunian objects
astronomers say that, unless it's just a very unlikely coincidence, there
is probably a unknown planet between 5 and 15 earth masses orbiting the sun
between 300 and 1000 times as distant from the sun as earth's orbit is, but
other than this indirect evidence optical telescopes have been unable to
find the slightest trace of it. A new paper suggests that the reason it's
so hard to find is that the gravitational mass may not be a planet at all
but is a Primordial Black Hole about the size of your fist, and says we
need to look for it with a Gamma Ray Telescope not the optical sort.

What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf>

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment has detected ultra short micro
lezing events caused by gravitational masses in the same range in the
distant Magellanic  Cloud (a dwarf galaxy) that they assume were caused by
free floating planets not connected to any star, but perhaps it was caused
by something even more exotic like a Primordial  Black Hole.

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment>

It's probably just a boring planet but maybe not, it would be GREAT if it
turned out to be true, we could actually sent a robot spacecraft to explore
a BlacK Hole, and if it used the sun grazing "Goddard orbit" to boost its
speed it could get there in less than a decade.

John K Clark

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