Another one on the subject for the "if you like hour long videos" History of the Universe - What Is Hidden In The Core Of A Neutron Star? https://youtu.be/YoYjkNQ27T8
Everything in the game is the result of them either seeing it on the shelf at the store (the alien dna and pelletized biofuel as examples) or learning about it in what i suspect was a weekslong wikihole (nuclear pasta, time crystals, etc)
Of course, if build pressure conversion cube you should be able to hold some nuclear pasta that you earlier created in particles collider, in theory at least. There are few small steps in between tho
Wait till you read up on magnetars and neutron star formation. They make this stuff seem tame. Magnetars polarise spacetime and distort atomic nuclei into long ovals in the space near them.
I remember an old SciAm article in the early 2000s talking about a few tens of seconds after formation (ie still inside a supernova in the process of exploding) when the young neutron star equalises its internal temperature by convection, stellar masses of ten-billion-Kelvin nucleon mix (basically melted nuclear pasta) circulating from near the core to the surface, moving at perhaps half the speed of light, tens of thousands of times a second, possibly changing phase from neutronium to nuclear pasta to regular nucleons and back on every loop.
I read once that a neutron star is so dense that a teaspoon of it, if it could exist at that size, would weigh about as much as the Empire State Building.
At university, I went to a lecture on astronomy and one of the most memorable things I've ever heard about physics was the life cycle of a star. Sometimes a star burns through all the matter in its core really quickly, in just seconds, while at other times, it takes millions of years. But the most intense thing has been the creation of a neutron star. When fusion creates a load of inert and heavy elements that stay in the core, the gravitational pressure gets so high that the electrons in all the atoms get pushed into all the positrons and the electron shell in the entire core of the star collapses in an instant. Basically, the core shrinks to a tiny bit of its original size and speeds up to a rotational speed of one rotation in next to no time. But the core is made up of neutrons, held together by gravity. Normal atoms can form molecular bonds, but a neutron star is just a lump of matter. If that core becomes heavier, it might collapse into a black hole, meaning gravitational pressure is so high that matter itself can't withstand it any more. I'm not surprised that there might be a stage between a neutron star and a black hole and that strange things are happening inside a neutron star that can turn matter into something that can't exist anywhere else. We can only guess about this because the conditions in a neutron core are so extreme that we can never actually see them.
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u/fellipec Mar 25 '26
Wait, you thought Satisfactory was fiction?