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| Apr 13, 2018 at 0:19 | comment | added | Helder Velez | Your answer to "4) Then why would something like a pulsar rotate faster as its matter get closer to the center?" is not correct, imo. Before the reunion the matter that is being accreted is rotating much slower than the pulsar and has to be accelerated upon reunion. Thus the momentum of the pulsar has to be shared and the pulsar have to slow down. In the ice skater the arms are already rotating at the same speed. Think as if you are the motor of a rotating carrousel and 100 people jumped inside at once and their velocity had to go from 0 to... Dont you think that they will slow you down? | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 19:40 | vote | accept | Castle | ||
| Mar 8, 2015 at 19:36 | history | answered | DK2AX | CC BY-SA 3.0 |