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Who do you think ruled Britain until 410AD and give the English their mile, which is simply the word for "1000" in Latin? And I think that the press release is
by romaaeterna 7y ago
Who do you think ruled Britain until 410AD and give the English their mile, which is simply the word for "1000" in Latin?
And I think that the press release is in error here. There was no radius measurement proposed in the Nature Astronomy paper. However, the radius in the press release is far to large. See:
https://i.imgur.com/Y34OspJ.png https://i.imgur.com/Y34OspJ.png (From https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.02698.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.02698.pdf)
Something on the order of 6-10 miles for a 2.14 M neutron star is much more appropriate.
Notice that this measurement may rule out some of our models (mostly the gray lines on the left of the chart) that don't predict neutron stars this massive.
- Jedd 7y agoI think you're conflating the historic etymology around the word mile, versus the US mile conversion rate to SI unit (metre).