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How can they reconcile this (I've read the same thread) with their core ideologies. They can't, so either they're hypocrites or they never really believed in their core ideologies to begin with (which makes them hypocrites, anyway). Dense neutron stars stay together because of gravity....another concept which seems rather alien to them. In any case, the strong and weak nuclear forces completely overwhelm electrostatic forces at the level of the nucleus....it's what allows inverse beta decay to occur, to begin with (which is essentially what forms the neutron star in the first place....gravity crushes the material down, it becomes degenerate and the protons and electrons merge to form neutrons).
Electrostatic forces wouldn't have snowball's chance in hell of holding onto any material rotating at the velocity of neutron stars.
What these twits also forget is that the neutron stars are surrounded by the remnants of the supernova explosion they were formed in. That's where the electron clouds and the currents present are coming from. The neutron star only provides the whirling magnetic field...essentially the "rotor of the electric motor". The remnant is the "wires" in which the current is generated. If they can't see that simple analogy, then they have no business even trying to understand what they're talking about.
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