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Re: Can Neutron Star Become Black Hole
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Originally Posted by litespeed
Free - You provided: "... fall from just one meter high it would hit the surface of the neutron star at 2 thousand kilometers per second, or 4.3 million miles per hour." Since the speed of light is 670,616,629 mph, relativistic effects would be negligible.
I invite a mathematician to calculate the impact velocity from one kilometer above the surface.
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I knew somebody was going to call me out on that. 
I'm not sure how they came to that number really. Figuring it out using Newton's method seems fairly straightforward, but using GR to incorporate pressure is another story. I, too, will await someone with more math prowess than I have. 
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