Warp wrote:
> whole core consists entirely and thoroughly of neutron matter, with no
> empty space at all, so the density of the core is the same as the density
> of one single neutron, which is *humongous*.

I'm really curious what QM says about this. As I understand it, "density" 
doesn't really work that way for elementary particles. Like, in a 
"Bose-Einstein Condensate", the "density" of a single particle could be such 
that it fills an entire room.

Not that I'm disagreeing with what you're saying. I'm just saying it's one 
of those areas where the QM and the GR come together to do something 
curious. It's not a big bowl of neurons - it's more a neuron soup. :-)

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