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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Color of Neutron Stars.
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 09:38:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 10 09:38:01 1985
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> > It would
> > be expected that the "typical" neutron star would have a
> > very intense magnetic field, a result of compression of the
> > "ancestral" stars ordinary magnetic field.  
> 
> It's probably true that most neutron stars have very intense magnetic
> field densities, but probably NOT the result of compression of
> the "ancestral" star state.  In fact, that ancestral field is swept 
> away by the outward snow plow action of the outer plasma mantle 
> of the star as the mantle is driven by the release of energy arising
> from the "gravitational collapse of the inner core of the star.  
> It is sort of an inverse inverse pinch.  The field of the collapsed 
> star probably has its origin from unified field related processes 
> which are not yet known, or well understood, but may well be mass 
> density, star body spin and precession related.  I like crimson.
> | pmk@prometheus: (301) 445-1075                        | FUSION | 

    Since most stars revolve about their axes, wouldn't a neutron star,
being a collapsed star, be expected to revolve extremely quickly about
it's axis?  And revolving so quickly, wouldn't it be expected to have
an intense magnetic field if it has a reasonable charge?  Why aren't
these well understood effects sufficient to explain a neutron star's
intense magnetic field?
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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