Particle Experiment Creates Tetraneutrons, Here's What This Means

[@Bassotronics]

I think people are taking for granted how awesome this is. A whole branch of new technologies with a state of matter that has been unheard of.

[@shoemakerx0105]

We have created a state of matter that 99% of stars can't even create, a state of matter that has never existed on another planet our tiny blue dot is by far the most impressive celestial body in the universe

[@bigzed7908]

@@shoemakerx0105 as far as we know

[@avenoma]

sounds like a great way to create corridors for resistance free electron exchange. maybe we can finally do away with copper wires.

[@ninny65]

@@avenoma heard it all before

[@oliverlaw02]

Like weapons more powerful than current nukes.

[@ForwardSynthesis]

Hang on a minute. Objects feel solid because the electrons in their atoms repel each other. A collection of neutrons that was stable wouldn't have an electron cloud like a normal atom, so it wouldn't be able to interact with normal matter easily. It would sail right through unless it directly collided with a nucleii. Also, objects reflect or absorb light by changing electron orbit energy levels, so neutronic matter wouldn't interact with light either. Could dark matter be nucleonic matter which is created by some unknown means or was created in the extreme environment at the beginning of the universe?

[@Poske_Ygo]

maybe pin this @Anton Petrov Id really like some replies to this.

[@Bassotronics]

Neutron matter is dark matter. Bingo!

[@MrMSBranham]

Except thst dark matter interacts via gravity with nornal matter except on a less forceful way as if the Cavendish constant for dark mattet is a lower value. Losing the electrons from the neutron material doesn't account for tgat.

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

That's what I was pondering while watching the video.

[@kazedcat]

The strong force creates collision pressure. This is the reason why neutron star does not collapse into a black hole. The collision pressure called neutron degeneracy pressure is higher than the neutron star's gravity.

[@BrianFedirko]

Atomic Chemistry? Truly amazing. If one had heard of this in the '70's it would appear to simply be magic talk. These are really exciting times with so much more to learn. Thank you Anton, You Rock!

[@Andrius319]

there was a video several years back. A muon, an unstable heavy version of electron, when muon replaces electron on the atom muon goes really near the nucleu which makes atom seem to be like 1 atomic number lower and this muon lives just long enough for chemical reactions to happen with that 1 atomic number lower atom version before going back up. In the end making unnatural molecules.

[@mt-mg7tt]

Atomic Chemistry is a concept from well before the 70's. It's integral to understanding how radioactive elements decay, and how fusion operates, and how you end up with something *chemically* different, i.e., actual transmutation (because an atom has gained or lost protons/neutrons and thus changed from one element to another). Uranium -> Lead, via several steps, for example.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

There is no atomic chemistry, only short-lived configurations. There are no stable neutron balls less than star-mass.

[@captain_context9991]

The elusive neutron matter was on a bench in the park all this time and nobody knew.

[@iowafarmboy]

Iowa State University graduate here. Pretty sweet to see a professor at my alumni school get recognition on a video here 😁

[@b.s.7693]

The end of his videos is always like a session chair, reminding you that you're running out of time during your presentation

[@paulh2468]

Thank you, Anton. I never knew that a free neutron decays into a proton and an electron. A very complex topic explained exceptionally well.

[@billferner6741]

This is where all the hydrogen in space is coming from.

[@Rut1971]

Amazing Anton!! You are such a gift to guys like myself trying to learn the what’s and why’s of our existence. Pray nothing but the absolute best for you and yours! You are truly a gift granted to us all! It’s not your knowledge, but the sharing of it!! Again, God Bless and let’s find that out of sight element that will bring human kind back together as the brothers and sisters we all are. Good day to all whom read this, remember, you are loved and needed!! 🙏 🤲

[@straa8up]

I’m so excited for our future because of the studies you keep putting us on game with. Thank you for your hard work. Love you.

[@davidarbuckle7236]

Thanks, Anton. Another great video. Keep em coming.

[@JohnSmith-kf1fc]

This is the greatest at what he does. Such a great quality person too

[@theperson23live]

"That's probably not a good idea.." Truer words have never been spoken Anton.

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Thanks Anton. The discussion is beyond my competence level, I know, but the possibilities of manipulating matter this way are well worth exploring.. Who knows what may be discovered pursuing this line of science?

[@lordalexandermalcolmguy6971]

Great stuff Anton

[@kaitlyn6853]

I feel like i vaguely remember being friends with someone who looked at least vaguely like Anton Petrov as a kid. It is interesting to note my familiarity bias when watching your videos haha At least I am aware :)

[@l.clevelandmajor9931]

What you are describing already has a name; 'Neutronium'. That name was first used in the Star Trek - The Original Series episode 'The Doomsday Machine'. The person that wrote that story must be credited with coining that word. Now we see a new term or word being used; 'Tetra-neutron'. I think this describes how a stable form of Neutronium is possible. Thanks to the scientists formulating the hypotheses, theories, equations, and doing the experiments. Thank you Anton Petrov for reporting their findings.

[@RavenLuni]

Maybe they'll create something so dense that it will cause a runaway gravitational effect that pulls in everything around it and turns the planet into a neutron star :p

[@alphagt62]

Or perhaps create artificial gravity on space ships just like in the movies, just make the floor out of this stuff and instant gravity?. Maybe a bullet proof shield so thin it could make tanks or ships indestructible? Or maybe something we can’t begin to imagine at this time, new semiconductors or some other exotic matter?

[@RavenLuni]

@@alphagt62 Then youd still have to move all that planet-sized mass

[@alphagt62]

@@RavenLuni one problem at a time! But excellent point.

[@CChissel]

Dude… the possibilities excite me. Can’t wait to see what can be done with tetraneutrons.

[@thegaminggetaway4134]

Thank you Anton. I've been watching your channel for years. You are always very informative on giving updated information and very interesting. I appreciate your intelligence and the way you teach .

[@tuxuhds6955]

My "Master of Orion 2" fantasies are coming true: Neutronium Armor Plates - Here we come!

[@simplesimon8586]

So…neutronium is an actual thing. Great. Now I need to update my table of elements to add element 0.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

It isn't an actual thing. It is extremely unstable.

[@jonathang1080]

@@annaclarafenyo8185 yet it exists

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

@@jonathang1080 No it doesn't, Anton just doesn't know how to report science properly.

[@finlaygreenaway193]

Isn’t that like saying element 114 doesn’t exist because it’s so unstable?

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

@@finlaygreenaway193 There's a point at which the lifetime is so short, the thing doesn't merit a name. If you place a ball of neutrons together, the lifetime to beta decay goes to zero as the ball gets larger, it's like any other weak decay, 10^-9 seconds, something like that. The ball of neutron instantly turns into a positively charged sphere of neutrons with a proton surface ejecting electrons and neutrinos, then the charged ball disintegrates into smaller positive balls in a cascade until you have a collection of stable nuclei. That's the fate of neutronium. If you wanted to artificially stabilize it, you might be able to use a positively charged and neutral pion-laser (this is science fiction) to constantly swap protons to neutrons and back quickly enough to prevent decay, but then you would need to replenish the neutral pions decaying to two photons, and it's completely ridiculous.

[@LoanwordEggcorn]

Thanks for a superbly clear explanation of some neutron processes.

[@leilarivera9721]

Very blessed to watch another wonderful Anton video.

[@knotgood9077]

NOW, more than ever, TY for all your hard work and content contributions…just appreciating

[@gardnep]

Well put together Anton.

[@garygreen7552]

I am overwhelmed by your videos, and I admit to knowing very little about the science involved. That being said I have learned from your presentations. One question about neutrons that may have been addressed before is how do they "stick together." Protons have a positive electrical charge and electrons are negative. That is how they are attracted to each other. The place of neutrons in the center of an atom is to allow the protons to stay together. Without them the protons would repel each other. If this was discussed in a past video I will look for it. Otherwise this might be a topic for a new video for those of us fascinated by what you present but are lacking the scientific knowledge needed to understand all of what is given. Than you.

[@barryon8706]

Neutrons are held in the nucleus by the strong nuclear force.

[@goorooken9055]

in some sense proton and neutrons are the same type of particle so their interaction is also quite similar and it has a very strong attractive character at short distance called strong force

[@semmering1]

I love your content so much.. Can´t thank you enough Anton

[@davee902]

Amazing. This is why I subscribed.

[@JohnSmith-kf1fc]

Thanks Anton for all you do. Much love your way

[@2006chame]

your work is awesome, thank you very much for everything!

[@N1gel]

great explaination.

[@Reeuwijk78]

Would it interact with photons? If not any form of neutron matter could make it a dark matter candidate.

[@Kualinar]

A particle need to have an electric charge to interact with photons. So, it should be totally transparent to pretty much any light. Probably even to gamma rays.

[@noname-rg3tx]

the photons are neutrally charged, neutrons ARE NOT neutrally charged, the neutron is made of positive and negative charge and the negative and positive charge equals to each other, so yes the neutron CAN interact with the photon since the neutron is made up of positively and negatively charged quarks

[@billthomas7644]

Neutrons have a magnetic moment so they are not dark matter.

[@Kualinar]

@@noname-rg3tx Maybe, but they'll only interact with photons of extremely high energy : Gamma rays.

[@maudley]

@@noname-rg3tx but then wouldn't it have to hit it dead on, rather than the electron cloud?

[@NeemeVaino]

1) neutron matter would stay together relaying only on nuclear forces, means it is way denser than proton matter 2) it would not interact with proton matter which is held together by charge, it would not feel it just like lead does not feel soap foam. it would fall through the floor just at the moment it is created.

[@robdenton1568]

That smile at the end cracks me up bro.

[@bloodyorphan]

We have been creating Neutron weights for over 70 years. It's all about the input temperature and how long it takes to find stability which is a half life calculation. i.e. Time for a new particle to have spend one second and half its' output temperature = (Temp/5)^2 seconds. You repeat that calc for the new temperature until temp equals zero and sum all the times for the substance half life duration. If the plutonium is fully insulated it will exhibit half temperature photons into the chamber which will form a layer of "Stability" and the Plutonium stops emmitting photons or becomes "Stable" within the confined insulated space otherwise it will emitt 10,000 for it's half life calculated time. Any non stable particle that is over 40 degree celsius will eventually find its' place in the Neutron weight space and its' compression will be approaching or below Planck making it is "Invisible" to us or Hyper Dimensional. We only "See" it through it's temperature emmissions and it's Gravity projecting back into our space. A fission reaction is when a neutron fractures in half and two half weight particles go up to the neutrons' half weight temperature (This is a natural anti-matter reaction), they are still time-dilated for the original weight and will stay that way for the same time-dilated rate before assuming the time-dialtion of their new weight space. They will acellerate the entire trip to their new weight space likely achieving near light speed velocities. The entire time they are more time-dilated than their new weight space they can "cut" that weight spaces' particles in two hence causing massive photon discharge increasing the local ambient temperature far beyond the 10^4.5 range that stable visible space can sustain. Creating a critical mass explosion, this explosion starts as an aperture down to the 10^4.5 degrees celsius weight space and it will burn its' own aperture out to a radius of approximately 50 meters with the internal temperature going up to the electron weight space temperature which is 10^18 degrees celsius. The recent fusion experiments fwit scientists have conducted have a half life stability time of more than 6.9 million years! and the majority of the "weight" they created ends up in the core of the planet it was only visible for 17 seconds FFS!. Love your work Anton.

[@frankgray3279]

It would end very well if we made a neutron star on earth trust me.

[@chitlitlah]

Humanity would transcend into an advanced state of existence as beings of neutronium... or more likely, we'd all perish.

[@ExternusArmy]

@@chitlitlah there is no scientific evidence for either. Let’s do the experiment

[@thevoid010]

@@ExternusArmy alright- *Earth spontaneously combusts*

[@S1V3L]

It would fix inflation

[@nicholasn.2883]

Is a tiny bundle of matter a star?

[@justingrey6008]

The wellstone. A novel by Phil McCarthy Neutronium is a prominent plot device in that book and the rest of the series. The author put a bit of research into how to do it too

[@rubenducheny2788]

You are a great Teacher! Thanks.

[@larry785]

You just discovered the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator!!!

[@javieroliveras344]

Anton greetings from Michigan USA

[@deafstratso]

Thank you for your videos. Please keep it up!

[@stevewilson5546]

That's all we need. Our very own neutron star. Congratulations! (slurrp)

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always anton. Thank you. 😊👍

[@davidva8694]

5:08 Reminded me of the Omega particle

[@PersonneAll]

Thanks Anton for this one : cant wait to see what technologie got for us in the future. Stay wonderfull (as you defenetly are) !!!

[@sayyamzahid505]

I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your website

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

I heard that CERN scientists are afraid that 10 years after the discovery of Higgs Boson, LHC has run out of things to find. Sounds like this will be a great thing to explore.

[@STriderFIN77]

Tetraneutrons are Amazingk!

[@charles_the_elder]

another great video, thank you

[@vangavrish3797]

Finally, a matter that would really matter

[@onaughto]

This is incredible.. what an amazing achievement.

[@miettoisdev]

very very nice Anton

[@davidtindell950]

FANTASTIC !!!

[@sugarfrosted2005]

This reminds me of the omega molecule from voyager, mostly just based on that resonance and stability.

[@brianstocks8049]

thanks man, you always test me

[@mjmeans7983]

If tetraneutron matter is stable, and since neutrons by themselves naturally become hydrogen, then maybe there is a way to catalyze or initiate breaking tetraneutrons into individual neutrons and as a way to make a hydrogen generator that takes a stable tetraneutron 'fuel'.

[@Anonymous-yh4ol]

OR HYDROGEN INTO NEUTRONS AND NEUTRONS INTO TETRANEUTRONS

[@Anonymous-yh4ol]

IT'S AN INTERESTING IDEA

[@thearchivalist6749]

Holy! I like the way you think this is great! Assuming that we can easily create this new form of matter. Whatever the process for creating and breaking this matter is has to cost less than just making hydrogen the current way

[@Bassotronics]

The possibilities are “endless” and a new Table Of Elements would need to be created.

[@magnemoe1]

Creating this cost way way more energy than splitting water. Now it might have use cases like very high energy rocket fuel, think metallic hydrogen level

[@darrenwoolley8736]

They were so excited by what could be done, they didn't give a thought as to whether they should!!

[@frankcowan6625]

No way , Anton. Here in Earth? That's new.

[@peterolsen9131]

hello anton! i have always thought that tetra neutrons will be the key to minutrization of matter and the creation of incredibly dense and strong metals like in science fiction , having a single tetra neutron orbiting between the nucleus and the electron cloud would remove a lot of empty space in an atom, the more tetraneutrons , the more the atom would be compacted , dilithium and naquada here we come!

[@freehat2722]

Cool. Sounds promising.

[@jenaidetempslaverteyere3562]

Could it be a start to find receipe for heavier stable nucleus? Theoretically, it was predicted to be around element 118 but never been found…

[@SebastianA.W.]

you know what ? i think you onto something. . who knows what kinda of stable new atomic forms could there be, and what amazing proprieties they may have.

[@ihatecrackhead]

it was a found and created, element 115 is stable bob lazar, an area 51 employee first reported it decades ago, before it was ever created and named To make this element, the scientists accelerated ions of calcium-48 (48Ca) to around 10 percent of the speed of light and then bombarded americium-243 (243Am) with them. Through this bombardment, they were able to successfully fuse the nuclei of 243Am and 48Ca atoms, says Gates. "To create a super-heavy element, you need the complete fusion of two lighter elements," she notes. This process produced four atoms of moscovium

[@MyVlogTubes]

Good job

[@byronwatkins2565]

This is awesome! I am curious what their decay modes are.

[@Paul-rs4gd]

This is scary stuff. It reminds me of the worries about strangelets. There are many arguments that say these things cannot be dangerous because we have not seen any evidence of them in cosmology, but we don't understand the theory at all. There must exist some possibility of creating a self sustaining reaction which converts normal matter into something different. There would be no way we could stop it.

[@gerardmason7349]

I can't help but think it means that a neutron actually *is* a proton and an electron. I realise that that makes me a hopeless dinosaur.

[@alberon554]

thank you

[@user-livetoknow]

Hello wonderful person!

[@perlindholm4129]

Security guess - The reason why we are not allowed to create new matter is that the inverse function of a sphere particle is a black hole. They could potentially be creating new not so distant black holes that potentially would take our energy, eat us.

[@Nefville]

I don't think there's enough mass in the solar system to create an actual neutron star. I do find them to be way more fascinating than black holes, primarily because they have more than 3 properties, but the forces involved are just unbelievable.

[@djdaddy8080]

There’s actually just enough mass in the solar system to compose a neutron star (1.1 solar masses). It would not occur naturally, obviously, but if we could condense all matter in the solar system together and spontaneously convert it all to neutrons by magic/Clarke tech, it would be a valid neutron star

[@ll7868]

What if instead of creating energy with mass (E=Mc2) you could create mass with energy? Higgs boson feilds are a relatively new feild of scientific study but you might be intereted.

[@ll7868]

Think about it, the first "matter" in the universe was formed because of energy, electromagnetism.

[@ll7868]

Black holes have more than 3 "properties". Space is 3 dimensional time is the 4th, black holes manipulate the relative "speed" or passing of time just like they manipulate space/time and the flow of light and energy waves from gamma to ultraviolet to gravity waves.

[@ll7868]

To get a better understanding of space/time look up Weak Force (atomic decay) and entropy, science speak for chaos.

[@GodlyAtheist]

Every video introduces a new idea that could lead to the unthinkable in a thousand years from now or so. It's like watching the birth of a whole new reality where we can only experience it in our minds as it gets refined over eons to become something far greater than anything we could ever imagine. As always, great reporting, Anton.

[@Wilky971]

What he's saying is that in any case we get hydrogen that collapse into stars making nuclear reaction creating new elements that combines themselves with others to make everything we know 😅. That process is just too good 😲

[@diraziz396]

Thank G for that Automatic Kill Switch of the Neutrons. Somehow the Possibilities are Very disturbing

[@goldplatealuminum1102]

Can you make a video about the latest CERN experiments? I read somewhere this week was going to be important at CERN.

[@mattphorwich]

Exciting stuff! Neutron matter!tetra neutrons!!nuclear pasta!!

[@howtoappearincompletely9739]

Make mine a rigatone!

[@MCsCreations]

Fascinating!

[@sebolddaniel]

Hopefully we can turn Earth into a neutron planet and get rid of our political and economic problems..

[@farrier2708]

I'd just be happy getting rid of all Politicians and Bankers and get back to bartering. 🐷=🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻 : 🤣

[@sterlingthibodeaux3690]

Hey Anton... very cool video.. you always produce great content.. I'm 52. When I was in school and was first taught about black holes, it really didn't make sense to me especially when we were also taught about how matter/energy converts into another but never goes away. That's why I also asked "Well, if there are "black" holes are there any "white" holes?"... My teacher thought I was being a jerk but it was a serious question. Keep in mind it was around 1985 and I was 15 and my teacher was a very proud educator and didn't apprieciate me asking a question he didn't have an answer to... lol...

[@mp6756]

LOL That is great story and the best part is it was a very good question.

[@lucidd4103]

👌 Yea was my experience with school when i was a kid too, thankfully we have people like Anton that make it for all the bad teachers.

[@TheSulross]

well, a challenge would be how to contain and manipulate a form of matter that has no electrical charge. Wonder if these structures would respond to radio frequency energy such as standing wave chambers (e.g., microwave ovens) - or lasers... Or perhaps even chambers filled only with a noble gas and resonated acoustically. The noble gas atoms would kinetically collide with these neutron structures and impart an acoustic energy by which to achieve some desired resonant frequency (presumably a resonant frequency conducive toward the stability of the neutron matter structure).

[@monnoo8221]

always wonderfully at the forefront of what is known, thank you so much. regarding a macroscopic assemblage of tetraneutrons, all "stabilized" by quantum effects on the microscopic level, well... I would expect that it could develop a hull of positrons, or, viewed from the other side, it may be kind of a electric fuel... ;) but in the worst case, it wold be a derivative of a taser bomb

[@randybrisendine2043]

This sounds eerily similar to the creation of the Neutron Bombs if the 80s that were supposedly able to blow up and kill everything in a city yet leave the buildings intact. No radiation residue after a few hours.

[@noname-rg3tx]

they existed, the W70 used to be a part of US nuclear force, all pieces got dismantled during the 80s

[@olencone4005]

@@noname-rg3tx Yeah, the idea behind them was for use as more of an artillery replacement for "tactical" nuclear strikes, providing maximum casualties from the radiation with minimum destruction from the blast. To Randy's comment, there would still be lingering radioactive fallout tho -- it's still a nuclear bomb after all -- but it would be less widespread than with a conventional nuke (something like a city block might be irradiated, for example, instead of the entire city). A number of nations developed them as I recall, but no one has kept them around.

[@sojourner.]

@@noname-rg3tx Sort of. The neutron bomb classification of the W70 differs from the hypothetical discretional radiation burst caused by a _Neutron Bomb_. The creator Samuel Cohen stated as much, the W70 still blows things up!

[@TheEmissaryofCheese]

I think that this is both cool and kinda scary. The thing about a neutron "object" is that if it were something that could fit in your hand and be visible, then it would be super dense. I mean because all matter that we interact with is composed of empty space. The amount of space between the outer shell of electrons and the nucleus of the atom is enormous. Whereas with neutron matter, there are no electrons. So I don't know if you would even be able to see it really. Even the color of the object is determined by how photons interact with the elections of the atoms of the molecules that make stuff up.

[@nerd31415926535]

7:10 How can you create a neutron object that is not super-dense?

[@Martial-Mat]

The question should not be "Could we" but "Should we?" This seems to me to be the definition of mad science. I wish someone would take their particle accelerators away from them.

[@myriaddsystems]

It's solid Neutronium captain....

is the long lifespan due to the high speed they move at?

[@psyboyo]

A neutron decaying into a proton and an electron, I never heard of this before, how does that happen?

[@CaptaineRed]

Check Free Neutron Decay on wiki, it must be what we're talking about here

[@noname-rg3tx]

neutron can be turned into proton, and the proton can be turned into neutron like anyday, the proton and neutron are totally the same

[@Ratzfourtyfour]

A neutron is made of three quarks: Up Down Down One quark switches from Down to Up, so we get Up Up Down, and that's a proton.

[@chitlitlah]

This is what happens in beta decay. It happens all the time in radioactive elements.

[@noname-rg3tx]

@@Ratzfourtyfour well said, it can happen via the beta decay

[@nuassul]

Si esa hipótesis es correcta sobre la estabilidad de los tetraneutrones a condiciones ambientales sin duda sería una revolución en la industria espacial con nuevos combustibles en tanques más compactos , nuevas cámaras, sensores detectores de partículas más sofisticados y baratos, materiales más delgados livianos e impermeables a la radiación, microelectrónica, nanotecnología, almacenamiento de energías en menor espacio, sin duda sería algo equiparable a la revolución del plástico a mediados del siglo XX. Este tema me hizo recordar a la teoría sobre la estabilidad del hidrógeno líquido metálico a condiciones ambientales que aún no se a demostrado, pero si eso ocurre sin duda estaré en primera fila para poder verlo ya que tiene una incontable cantidad de aplicaciones en donde su potencial podría brillar más dentro de los combustibles para cohetes y trasportes terrestres.

[@Hamishamishamishamish]

Wow never been this early to a video

[@cjperry2731]

Anton usually uploads every day at 6pm eastern, quite reliably..

[@montyklio666]

@@cjperry2731 so reliable that you can easily catch a 10second old video

[@kjnoah]

Why not put into tokamak for resonant stability and then slowly bring up to plasma level?

[@HaloInverse]

TIL that free neutrons have a half-life, and effectively decay into hydrogen atoms if they don't find another nucleus in time. This seems like significant and fundamental information that I _should_ have accidentally learned long ago, but somehow never did. Also, what's with all the "posschain" chatter? Is Anton being used as a backup communications hub for when the main subreddit/discord goes down?

[@Tomemos1Jager]

Same question lmao

[@noname-rg3tx]

neutrons do not decy into hydrogen atoms

[@Kualinar]

Does that mean that the neutronium from StarTrek could be more than SF fantasy ?

[@filonin2]

Well it is what neutron stars are made of so we know for sure it isn't.

[@bytefu]

No. How would you even hold neutrons together? They are electrically neutral, after all.

[@Kualinar]

@@bytefu Even the weak force would do a better job at holding them together than the electromagnetic interactions.

[@garystinnett8321]

A moon based accelerator could accommodate this. We need *A LOT* of fuel and *A LOT* of energy. This is to create a longer sustained reaction at the energies needed to create the condition for neutrons to find a stable bind. It would create a lot of radiation with such a process

[@gristlevonraben]

very cool

[@psyekl]

I just hope I'm long dead before someone from the control room of one of these huge colliders looks up and says "oops."

[@nadahere]

@ Anton, there is a better way to make 'neutron matter', making your presumption of 'needing to add neutrons' inapposite. A recent high end experiment demonstrated that elements can be formed by subjecting hydrogen atoms to electric current, having thus formed half a dozen elements, i.e. low temperature, aneutronic transmutation. 😎👍🥇☣↩ ♏

[@marginbuu212]

Cool. Does this mean we get to have neutronium armor on our space ships right away? Also, what are the chances we accidentally create Strange Matter and doom everything?

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

Chance of strange matter is probably bigger, because its made out of chaos. To make the neutronium armor, you probably need to follow the specific requirments to create it.

[@bytefu]

If strange matter was real and stable, our planet would become that already, since it is has been bombarded by all kinds of particles for billions of years.

[@TheGanamaster]

Why on 7:05 I am seeing the mandelbrot set(B figure)on the so called "Neutron matter"?, is that the picture of the predicted exotic matter?

[@professorxgaming2070]

Wow this is freaking Epic!!!!! This could possibly lead to a neutron periodic Table. So is this considered Neutron Hydrogen?

[@johnrobholmes]

Fun fact, the neutron is 1 trillion times smaller than a hydrogen atom. Imagine if this can be harnessed for fuel cell use....

[@noname-rg3tx]

the atom is from 99% empty space

[@jackholman5008]

@@noname-rg3tx does that mean matter is also 90%+ empty space

[@Blubiblub1]

@@jackholman5008 what exactly do you refer to with matter? if you are talking about pretty much anything made out of atoms, then yes. but its more like 99.999999% empty space.

[@deftones8717]

Is that illustration of the neutron star being depicted at 0:08 on Long Island? How dare you Anton! Are you trying to destroy my home and kill me?! Lol jk.. this concept is so interesting! You always educate me consistently with your videos. I appreciate it so much man. Sure, a lot of the technical stuff and the science jargon goes right over my head, but for the most part you have this magical ability to explain these things in somewhat layman’s terms so us dummies can comprehend better. What I find really sad is that all of these major achievements in astronomy and all of the other sciences seem to be totally ignored by main stream media! It says A LOT about the society we live in, where petty, immature, pathetic drama in politics, among other meaningless things, seem to be all that the news reports on these days, ignoring major breakthroughs in science, as if they are insignificant or some sh!t. The geniuses who are behind such discoveries, making technological achievements, etc should be celebrated and admired, yet the world admired celebrities and corrupt, brainless politicians. Sorry.. I just wanted to show some appreciation for all that you do Anton! It’s people like you who should be working in government.. I know science/astronomy is your passion, but we need bright minds like yours in government. People who don’t entertain the bullsh!t, and prioritizes learning and striving to reach the stars, literally. I wish governments around the world could stop treating one another as enemies, and start working together at progressing our species rather than regressing. Just imagine how much more science would blossom and grow if the greatest minds from al countries around the world could work together with common goals. It’s quite sad how these things are never encouraged. Okay, that’s my rant! Sorry 😆 I’m just so glad that we have you Anton. The “news” networks can keep pushing their hateful, divisive rhetoric, and fear mongering, politically driven narratives.. I’ll just get the news that actually matters from the man, the myth, the legend, Anton! You’re a wonderful person! Okay, time to unpause and actually watch the video lol.. I only got 10 seconds in and just HAD TO leave a comment for ya. Hope all is well with you and the fam Ant. I hope you’re holding up okay. The world loves you man.

[@fatman9644]

I am no particle physicist or anything close, but I have been thinking about certain effects this would create, so feel free to correct me As far as I know the electromagnatic force creates the repelling force between normal atoms, wouldnt this imply that neutron matter is extremly dense since there is nothing that blocks those neutrons from minimizing the space between because gravity still exists. I know that just four neutrons wouldnt be anything heavy, but if we have like a mol of tetraneutrons, would it be extremly dense?

[@Cliff_Anderson]

There's no getting around the fact that an entire object created from this neutron matter would be extremely dense, in effect, one giant nucleus. Keeping anything but a sphere stable would be difficult if not impossible once it reached macroscopic size. Very interesting, though. I think it's just completely awesome that a free neutron just spontaneously turns itself into a proton if left alone. It's like the universe knows the neutron is useless on its own and changes it back into something useful. Like a programmer's garbage collection routine...

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

also like a person selling organs stolen from children

[@YodaWhat]

Neutrons *do not change spontaneously!* The assistance of a W boson is required, and _they are only found as Virtual Particles (note1),_ only rarely emerging from the Quantum Foam because each is more massive than an entire atom of Iron. Note1: The possible exception to that always/only is in the formation of a Neutron star, in a core collapse supernova, in which several times the mass of the Sun must turn into Neutrons in a split second. Under those super-extreme conditions, REAL W bosons may be created as particle pairs such as W-boson and anti-W-boson.

[@Cliff_Anderson]

@@YodaWhat So, if a free neutron is ambling by , and a virtual w boson pops into existence just in time to help the neutron transform into a hydrogen atom, that's still pretty cool.

[@YodaWhat]

@@Cliff_Anderson Yes, and the time required for that random coincidence explains neutrons' _half life._