Universe Sandbox
Universe Sandbox Legacy => Universe Sandbox Legacy | Discussion => Topic started by: dhm794 on January 05, 2012, 03:34:01 PM
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Is it possible to create a pulsar? (a neutron star that rotates extremely fast and sends out light in a "lighthouse" fashion). I've tried taking a star of neutron-star mass and making the diameter that of a typical neutron star, but it doesn't rotate at all.
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Maybe it's rotating so fast that your eye just thinks it's not rotating? Those things have milisecond/microsecond rotations. There may also be a bug involving rotation and stars.
As for a pulsar, I did make a neutron star once, but I have no idea about the jets of photons that make a pulsar a pulsar.
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Is it possible to create a pulsar? (a neutron star that rotates extremely fast and sends out light in a "lighthouse" fashion). I've tried taking a star of neutron-star mass and making the diameter that of a typical neutron star, but it doesn't rotate at all.
You need to set the rotation speed of the neutron star.
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Ah... I just realized you can set the rotation. Anyways, do you think it's possible to make it emit light the way a pulsar does?
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if you did a binary star; one dense star and one very "undense" star, you could do soemthing with the light and pulsing.
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I know mudkipz did something similar with a black hole and jets, but I'm not sure if it's the effect you want.
if you did a binary star; one dense star and one very "undense" star, you could do soemthing with the light and pulsing.
Eclipsing isn't the same thing as pulsing.
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Ah... I just realized you can set the rotation. Anyways, do you think it's possible to make it emit light the way a pulsar does?
Not possible currently.
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ok...but you can make it visually pulse anyway.
I know mudkipz did something similar with a black hole and jets, but I'm not sure if it's the effect you want.
if you did a binary star; one dense star and one very "undense" star, you could do soemthing with the light and pulsing.
Eclipsing isn't the same thing as pulsing.
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Ah... I just realized you can set the rotation. Anyways, do you think it's possible to make it emit light the way a pulsar does?
Not possible currently.
Yeah, I was asking the programmers specifically if it's even possible to do this at all (not in the current version).
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Ah, I get it.