Scientists have found a bizarre similarity between human cells and neutron stars

[Judi Lynn]

Scientists have found a bizarre similarity between human cells and neutron stars


Our link to the stars.





JOSH HRALA
3 NOV 2016

If you were to compare yourself to a neutron star, you probably wouldn’t find very many things in common. After all, neutron stars – celestial bodies with super strong magnetic fields – are made from collapsed star cores, lie light-years away from Earth, and don’t even watch Netflix.

But, according to new research, we share at least one similarity: the geometry of the matter that makes us.

Researchers have found that the 'crust' (or outer layers) of a neutron star has the same shape as our cellular membranes. This could mean that, despite being fundamentally different, both humans and neutron stars are constrained by the same geometry.

"Seeing very similar shapes in such strikingly different systems suggests that the energy of a system may depend on its shape in a simple and universal way," said one of the researchers, astrophysicist Charles Horowitz, from Indiana University, Bloomington.

More:
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-a-structural-similarity-between-human-cells-and-neutron-stars

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1. As Carl Sagan said

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[MADem]

2. And as Crosby, Nash and Young said ....

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.