thebillywayne
Location: Knoxville
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Email: [email protected]Also, for computational chemistry, at least, there's the Computational Chemistry Highlights blog [ http://www.compchemhighlights.org/ ], which selects (what they think are) interesting papers published within the past two years or so.
Finally, I follow scientiests' blogs and social media, who will typically share excellent papers that they find. Email lists like the Computational Chemistry List [ ccl.net ] will usually discuss papers as they relate to the conversations at hand.
Unfortunately, many of the excellent chemistry journals are behind pay walls.
This is how I harvest info for chemistry. I think it's highly probably that this same method could be used for all scholarly disciplines.
Best of luck.
Realize that life doesn't have to be this way and that there are things that you can do to make it better. Realize that you're not able to make full use of your intelligence in the state you're in. You need help making choices and analyzing your situation. Professional help.
Talking to a psychologist and being treated by a psychiatrist turned my life around. Again, I'm bipolar, so my condition may be more permanent than yours. Remember, taking medication isn't a sign of weakness. Many people only need to take it to get out of their current rut and then cast it off as soon as they see the light of day. I was against taking medication for a long time. But then I realized that brain tissue can be diseased just as any other bodily tissue can be diseased.
Something else that helps is to interact with your loved ones more: friends, family, anyone who you love and who loves you too. Talk to them. Let them know what's going on in your life. If you don't have anyone like this in your life, I'm sorry. This may be contributing to your suicidal thoughts.
As others have said, a good diet, exercise, vitamins, and plenty of fresh air and sunshine go a long way.
These are things that will help long term and will probably keep you from returning to this state. But, first, you need radical intervention.
Make an appointment with a therapist. Today. Be completely open with them. Do as they say. Don't think you're smarter than they are. Remember, right now you're not capable of using your mind to its full capacity. You're sick. Let a professional help you. Right away.
I commonly write long for loops in the shell and hitting the up arrow to bring it back up, should I want to edit it, etc., then it appears with all the newlines just as I typed it.
One the one hand, the neutrons are stable and not decomposing into protons, electrons, etc. by the extreme gravity. At a previous point in the star's lifecycle, it was comprised of normal atoms which contain electrons, protons, and neutrons. In atoms under typical conditions, there is a force which keeps the electrons from falling into the nucleus. Later in the star's life, as the star ran out of fuel, gravity overcame the force that normally keeps electrons from falling into the nucleus and so the protons and electrons fused to become neutrons. Hence, a neutron star.
If one were to release the gravitational pressure, the neutrons would become unstable and you'd get the decay back to protons, electrons, and the radiation that's mentioned. It would be a huge release of energy, as the article states.
The degeneracy pressure is the other force at play. It's what keeps the neutrons from collapsing onto one another and becoming a black hole. I think it's essentially the Pauli exclusion principle, but I could be wrong there.
So, the degeneracy pressure keeps them separated as individual neutrons, but gravity is what is stabilizing the neutrons themselves as neutrons.
If the star were large enough, gravity would overcome even the degeneracy pressure, resulting in a black hole.
At least, I think that's how it works.