How Many Neutrons Can You Stack Before Reality Breaks?
1.8M views · Jul 5, 2025 · Education
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@PhysicsExplainedVideos · 1 year ago · pinned
Quick heads-up: Between <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyS7-OK57I&t=1635">27:15</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyS7-OK57I&t=1655">27:35</a> there’s a fast-flashing pulsar animation. If you're sensitive to flashing lights, you might want to skip that part.
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@OrinSorinson · 1 year ago
I was doing some housecleaning and I wanted to organize all my neutrons in neat stacks. This came in just in time.
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@CheetahFoxx · 1 year ago
"A neutron walked into a bar and asked 'How much for a drink?' The bartender said, 'For you, there's no charge.'"
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@erroneum · 1 year ago
I love how pathetically weak gravity is. Everyone is familiar with it, and most people think it's fairly strong, but that's only because there's an entire planet pulling on them.
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@ronaldoribeiro4306 · 1 year ago
"The incredible thing about our universe is that, in a narrow window between too little and too much something remarkable happens, stars explode, elements scatter and planets and people can form "
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@hongkyang7107 · 1 year ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyS7-OK57I&t=333">5:33</a> it call a "weak" force because there is a "strong" force that x1000 time stronger which hold the nucleus itself together. It is insane to think about the potential power in the quantum world.
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@Woloszow · 1 year ago
My jaw dropped at 230N of proton - proton repulsion. I hope you will keep finding joy in making videos. Your deeper, but still accessible level of dive in physics is a gem. Especially when we have more and more channels which shift to shallow, sensational TV-like quality.
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@mr.normalguy69 · 1 year ago
My dumb brain is telling me that you can stack neutrons until the gravity makes it collapse into a neuron star. And continue to stack neutrons until the increasing neutron mass and gravity turns the neutron star into a black hole 💀
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@thelazy0ne · 1 year ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyS7-OK57I&t=10">0:10</a> Yes! It's called a. Neutron star ☺️
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@aliestercardigan8574 · 10 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyS7-OK57I&t=264">4:24</a> that's what she said!
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@imfadedttv · 9 months ago
no i’ve never wondered what happened if i built an object made entirely of neutrons, but here we are at 4 in the morning
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@ethanisnotsleeping · 1 year ago
The real question is can you build a Jimmy out of Neutrons
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