Scientists have discovered a substance 10 billion times harder than steel-nuclear pasta

Over the years, we all like to use the adjective "hard" very much.
This dish is very hard, the relationship between two people is very hard, and the person is very hard, etc.
, which means great, great or NB
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It is also used to measure the hardness of the substance.
This is the hardness.
For thousands of years, human beings have been searching and exploring the hardest things in nature
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If you ask you what is the hardest thing on the earth, although you may say different answers, I believe that you can basically say a few names, such as diamond, metal osmium and so on
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And if you say what the hardest matter in the universe is, I believe few people know it.
According to the research of scientists, there is a substance called "nuclear pasta" inside the neutron star.
It may be the universe that humans have been looking for.
The hardest substance
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A research report called "The Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta" was published in the "Physics Review Letters".
This research report was developed by Professor Walter Burke of the California Institute of Technology, the Institute of Theoretical Physics, and Indiana University.
Published jointly by the Nuclear Theory Center
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This report mainly introduces the hardest "noodles" in the universe that exists inside neutron stars
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Neutron stars Neutron stars are stars that are 20 times larger than the sun.
When their internal nuclear fuel is exhausted, the outside begins to collapse and form many small stellar bodies.
These small stellar bodies are neutron stars, and neutron stars are the densest stars in the known universe
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A neutron star is mainly composed of neutrons, and only a small part of electrons and protons exist.
A neutron star can be considered similar to a huge atomic nucleus.
Under the action of gravity, matter is compressed to the same density as the atomic nucleus
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Its density is terribly large.
The density of neutron stars is equivalent to a weight of more than 100 million tons per cubic centimeter, which is almost one trillion times the density of water
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What is nuclear pasta? Nuclear pasta is a substance that exists inside a neutron star, but it is very interesting to see its name.
How can such a hard substance be named the same as food
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Nuclear pasta is currently impossible to directly obtain physical objects to study, so physicists use computer simulations to better understand the nuclear pasta inside neutron stars
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Through simulation, the researchers found that the material inside the neutron star is constantly squeezed and pushed in different directions, and the movement during the interaction will show strange but interesting pasta shapes
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The surface features of nuclear pasta are complex and irregular shapes, such as twisted tubes or flakes, because it is similar to various pasta or macaroni, such as waffles, spaghetti and lasagna, so it is called “nuclear pasta” "
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Through these simulations, it was also found that the hardness of nuclear pasta gradually increased from the surface to the center, and its center hardness was about 10 billion times that of steel, which also made it easy to make it the strongest material known in the universe
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Scientists have also discovered many secrets of neutron stars and nuclear pasta through continuous research.
For example, these strange pasta-like structures may limit the speed of neutron stars, the surface of neutron stars is very smooth, and there are gravitational waves.
These many secrets still need to be studied continuously
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I wonder if such a hard substance is difficult to use and cannot be processed.
Besides, its density is too high.
A small piece of it can derail the earth under pressure
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