Neutron Stars

Modern science is riddled with theories that are presented as facts to the general public. As Mark Twain put it: “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

This is especially true in astrophysics where distant objects are given all sorts of exotic properties based on a handful of observed facts. As an example, we have the neutron star. Virtually all literature on it is presented as facts when in reality it’s mainly conjecture.

Jumping to conclusions

All that we know from observations is that there are some distant objects that emit little to no visible light, yet radiate strongly in radio-wave and x-ray bandwidths. To conclude from this that we are dealing with stars made up of super-dense matter is quite a stretch of the imagination. The observations may just as well be caused by electromagnetic interactions between stellar bodies, in which case no super-dense matter is required.

Further undermining the conventional interpretation is the fact that the observed radiation has glitches in it. While very regular in general, there are little lapses in the radiation ever now and again. This is easy to explain electrically because electric flows are easily altered. But gravity and rotation cannot be altered equally easily, so the glitches pose a problem to the gravity model, but not the electric model.

Dodgy science

The whole premise of the existence of neutron stars is also dodgy because it presupposes that stars in a certain size range will collapse into this kind of body when they run out of fuel. But gravitational collapse defies the laws of thermodynamics in that it suggests that a system can do work onto itself. There’s also the assumption that gravity acts uniformly regardless of density. However, in a strict particle model of physics, such as the one suggested in my books, there are limits to how dense something can become before electric, magnetic and gravitational forces break down.

The aether

The impossibility of neutron stars becomes clear in light of any model where the electric force, gravity and magnetism are transmitted by the aether because extremely dense matter will have no room for the aether. With nothing to communicate these forces, they become weaker.

Furthermore, the only reason gravity can be communicated from the center of astronomic bodies is that matter is made up of atoms that are largely empty space. The aether has plenty of room to communicate information from the center of objects and out into the surrounding space. However, if all the space between atoms should disappear, as would be the case for a body made up of nothing but neutrons, then there would be no room for the aether. Gravity would no longer be communicated for the whole body. Only the outer surface would do this, and this would make neutron stars weak when it comes to gravity. With nothing to keep these bodies together, they would quickly fly apart.

Free neutrons don’t exist in nature

Neutron stars don’t exist for much the same reason that free neutrons don’t exist. With no space between the proton and the electron, there is no electric force keeping a free neutron from decaying into a proton and an electron within a few minutes. The neutron star, made entirely up of free neutrons, would similarly radiate away due to a lack of forces to prevent this from happening.