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goobster · 1478 days ago · link · · parent · post: We finally know what has been making fast radio bursts
Mother Nature is a badass... yet again. "Oh, you like chemistry? How about I make an environment where chemistry can't happen, huh? Not so "big brained" are we now, eh humans?!?" "...We don't know, however, whether those (magnetic) fields are inherited from a very magnetic parent star or generated by superconducting material sloshing around inside the neutron star. Whatever the source, they're about a trillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. That's strong enough to distort the electron orbitals in atoms, effectively eliminating chemistry for any normal matter that somehow gets close to a magnetar..."