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Question

If it were possible to take a very small chunk of neutron star matter (extremely dense) and brought it to earth and dropped it into the ocean from thousands of feet high, what would happen??!

Answer 1

The matter will be extremely hot, may be with millions of degrees temperature, so I guess its not just its density going to bother us. It would create a great explosion both due to is expansion in this atmosphere, speed, gravity as well as temperature. I guess it compresses the atmosphere between it and the earth due to its speed. If we are nearer, we would not have anything to bother with it because we would not know what happened. And nearer might mean 1000s of kilometers nearer. A huge climatic change which world has never see will occur. Tsunami, even unseen on any Hollywood films will occur. That could probably end human dynasty but its more likely to cause huge destruction.

We will know more about neutron stars but we would never be happy with it.

Answer 2

i am sure i don't know. my guess is a sphere of water.

Answer 3

The material on the Earth would be attracted toward the neutron star mass first, including the atmosphere and the liquids on the Earth first.

Then the Earth and the mass would accelerate toward one another due to their mutual gravitational attraction.

Crash and implosion.

End of life on the little sphere that used to be Earth.

Answer 4

First, it would explode, because outside of the pressure present in the neutron star, it will become VERY unstable.

But, assuming you put it in a really strong baggie, you've basically got a penetrator warhead.  Your very small piece of matter will arrive at the same speed a rock dropped from 1000' would.  So, not that big of a splash.  However, it won't stop until it gets near or to the center of the Earth, making a small hole all the way down.  So, you'd get a bit of lava, but not much.

Answer 5

Before it hit the water, the water would be pulled up off the earth and form a sphere around the chunk.  The sphere would then contract under the gravitational influence of the chunk.

And that's just the begining....