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January 29, 2020
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Discovery of Cen X-3 as Binary Pulsar
The following diagram is something I created in 1971, when first proving that Cen X-3 was a binary system. I wrote a program called "sinefit" that did a best fit of a sine curve to the data and hit the jackpot.
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May 18, 2021
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More on the “can’t go down the up escalator” metaphor
In the diagrammatic proof diagram: The “up escalator” is column 3. The “down escalator is column 4. The reason column 3 is an “up escalator” is because the system represented in the cells of column 3 is a binary system where accretion is force that is causing the neutron star pulsar component of the binary […]
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May 13, 2021
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Announcing the NS-Capture Empirical Spin-up Process
A new page has been added to the Secret of the Pulsars website that describes the NS-Capture Empirical Spin-up Process and shows how it provides additional support that NS-Capture is the only plausible mechanism to explain the data collected in the last 50 years on both spinning-down radio pulsars and spinning-up x-ray pulsars. The “additional […]
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January 27, 2021
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Analogy: “You can’t go down the up escalator!”
In science, it is generally useful to come up with easy-to-understand analogies, or metaphors that relate to the subject being discussed. In this context what we are trying to do is come up with an analogy that helps us understand the problems with: the existing theory of pulsars (which we refer to as the NS-Creation […]
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December 17, 2020
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How NS-Capture explains “Extreme Supernovae”
In the December 2020 issue of Scientific American (sciam), there is a cover story on “Extreme Supernovae” with subtitle: “Bizarre stellar explosions challenge our understanding of how stars live and die” The article, itself, is entitled: “Strange Supernovae Upend Expectations” by author: Anna Y.Q.Ho This post describes how the Neutron Star Capture Theory (NS-Capture) explains […]
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January 19, 2021
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What is the “secret” of the pulsars?
The “secret” of the pulsars is rooted in a fundamental contradiction between the spin data of observed neutron star pulsars and the current theory (NS-Creation) that is used to explain the existence of pulsars. The pulsar spin data can be generally characterized as falling in two broad categories: There are relatively fast spinning pulsars that […]
Read MoreApril 29, 2020
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Welcome to restarted blog: Key Points Proving NS-Capture Theory
This post is intended to explain in very basic terms the reason why a new theory of pulsar creation is necessary. Once the need is recognized, then the "Secret of the Pulsars" is enabled to reveal itself.
Read MoreMay 1, 2020
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Why the P/P-dot diagram supports the NS-Capture Theory
If the NS-Creation theory is used to create the pulsars that become part of X-ray Binaries, then there should be evidence of radio binary pulsars where a fast binary pulsar is slow down. No such observations exist.
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2020
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NS-Capture theory extended to millisecond pulsars
The theory presented on this site is both already in existence & in parallel being presented for general availability for the first time. As such there will be ongoing updates such as this one:
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January 29, 2020
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The Two Theories
There is much to say on the overall subject matter of this website as will become apparent as new information is presented.
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