Voyage of the Stars

According to the data returned by the detector, some human astronomers believe that this neutron star was a magnetar in its early days. However, after a long time, its magnetic field became much weaker, but it was still stronger than an ordinary neutron star. Quite a few.

Therefore, the environment of this binary star system can be described as very harsh.

A magnetar is one type of neutron star, and it is also a neutron star, but it has a stronger magnetic field than an ordinary neutron star.

What can be called a magnetar is undoubtedly the type of object with the strongest magnetic field in the universe. It generally has a super strong magnetic field of 10 to the 9th power to 10 to the 11th power T. T is Tesla, the unit of magnetic field. Under normal circumstances, as long as the magnetic field strength of a neutron star reaches 10 to the power of 10 Tesla, it can be directly called a magnetar.

The magnetic field of this intensity is about one trillion times stronger than the magnetic field around the earth. The earth's magnetic field is only about 30 to 60 microtesla.

As for the magnetic field strength of this neutron star, it is about 3*10 to the power of 7 Tesla, which is 30 million Tesla.

It may not be intuitive to just talk about the numerical value. Let’s put it this way, with such a strong magnetic field, when it is close to a neutron star, even non-magnetic objects will be instantly magnetized, such as humans or other living things. Kilometers away, there is no need for the gravitational tide of a neutron star to tear apart the human body. The human body will be instantly magnetized by the super strong magnetic field, and then the diamagnetism of the water in the body will immediately cause the cells to rupture, and then be torn to pieces, referred to as gray and gray. .

Yes, the cause of death is not gravitational tearing, but magnetization.

With the magnetic field strength of this neutron star, human warships are now completely unable to get within an astronomical unit of it. Human scientists have calculated that as long as a human battleship approaches a certain distance, the battleship's magnetic shielding material will be instantly magnetized by the super strong magnetic field of the neutron star, causing the entire battleship to be magnetized.

The consequence of this is that all crew members, all equipment, and all devices will be magnetized at the moment when the magnetic field shielding material collapses. At that moment, the living things will be completely torn apart by the diamagnetic water molecules and proteins in their own bodies, and the battleship will blow you up. It will also turn into a pile of scrap metal in a burst of sparks and lightning.

Regarding this ultra-strong magnetic field neutron star, some astronomers believe that its current stage is not in the weakening stage of the magnetic field, but in the stage of evolving into a true magnetar.

Some scientists believe that this neutron star has the same dipole magnetic field when it is born. After a long evolution, it will eventually become a magnet star with a different dipole magnetic field.

This evolution process is mainly reflected in different rotation period jumps. During the jump process, some of its physical quantities will change from finite values ​​to infinite values, including mass, volume, density, temperature, period, frequency, rate, etc. . Of course, becoming infinite does not mean that these physical quantities will become infinite or infinitesimal, but that it increases from one value to another in units.

If such a neutron star does not restore the magnetic field strength before the transition after the transition, then it can maintain the enhanced magnetic field intensity. Such an evolution often takes millions of years.

Therefore, some scientists believe that this neutron star is in the process of evolving into a magnetar, rather than changing from a magnetar to a normal neutron star.

Of course, no matter which situation it is, it means one thing, that is, the environment here is very, very, very bad.

It can be said that when human civilization and Nel civilization entered the scope of this binary star system, it was equivalent to sailing from the calm sea into the raging waves of the wolf.

In such an environment, as long as there is a problem with the magnetic shielding materials of battleships and spaceships, the battleships and spaceships will be directly destroyed in a strong magnetic field environment without any other strikes, and then the ship will be destroyed and people will die.

Of course, when you look at this starry sky and this binary star system from the perspective of the human eye or visible light, what you see is still a calm starry sky.

Without an X-ray perspective, people would not even be able to see the neutron star in the binary star system. They would only see a red dwarf star moving in an inexplicable way around a non-existent center of mass in the void.

But if a person has an X-ray perspective, a magnetic field perspective, and an intuitive sense of magnetic induction lines, then what he sees will be a galaxy more dangerous than hell. In his eyes, this place will be an eternal raging sea, a place full of dangers, a sea area full of endless swallowing whirlpools, and a sea area full of endless huge waves.

In a word, this is the world of electromagnetism, the second strongest force in the universe! It is a surging ocean of electromagnetic force!

The thing that creates such an environment is the neutron star that is invisible to the naked eye and has a diameter of only 13 kilometers.

What's even more frightening is that scientists have discovered that this neutron star is also a violent neutron star. While it radiates energy outwards, it also periodically experiences magnetic storms.

Generally speaking, magnetic storms refer to violent changes in the Earth's magnetic field caused by solar explosions. They are disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by the interaction between solar wind vibration waves or magnetic clouds and the Earth's magnetic field.

This kind of thing often happens in the earth's era. When the sun's surface activity is strong, especially when the sunspots are at their maximum, the number of flares on the sun's surface will increase. When the flares explode, they will radiate X-rays and ultraviolet rays. , visible light, and high-energy proton and electron beams.

Usually manifested as "aurora" phenomenon, radio interruption, disruption of satellite communications, power grid tripping accidents, failure of highly sensitive instruments, etc.

This is the impact of magnetic storms in the Earth's era, and when the source of magnetic storms becomes neutron stars, all harm will be amplified countless times.

Taking the first detectors sent by humans to detect this binary star system, no less than ten detector teams have been killed by the short magnetic storm of this neutron star.

It's like detecting and detecting, and suddenly the screen disappears and the signal can never be transmitted back. Then the detector team that was lucky enough to be far away and survived went over and took a look, only to find that the detectors had been scrapped.

At that moment, other surviving detectors also detected an energy fluctuation in the soft gamma and X-ray bands that lasted about 0.1 to 1 second.

It was this energy burst of just one second that caused mankind to lose a batch of advance detectors without warning.

Human civilization and Nair civilization, which have reached the second level of civilization and have the ability to cross the starry sky, still have to walk on thin ice and be cautious in such an environment.

In such an environment, if it were not for the purpose of defeating the artificial intelligence consciousness, humans would never be willing to enter because it is too dangerous.