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Neutron Star Pasta - Cray - 12-24-2015
Bless his noodlely appendages, the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the sky has manifested in neutron stars. Or at least in a physics paper about them that needed a lot of pasta analogies.
http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/the-inside-of-a-neutron-star-looks-spookily-familiar
With such structuring of nuclear matter, the question for me is: does this provide an additional mechanism for forming an N-brain?
RE: Neutron Star Pasta - stevebowers - 12-27-2015
Particles in the crust of a magnetar are apparently elongated by the magnetic field into long, thin needles. Looks like the transistion zone is structurally interesting, too.