10 BILLION TIMES STRONGER THAN STEEL
Steel may not be the strongest element in the world, there are some which are a bit more, stronger, but in terms of availability steel is the strongest element. But imagine a substance that’s 10 Billion times stronger than steel, and is spread over an entire heavenly body. Seems like a fantasy story but this is the latest breakthrough by the scientists in our limited knowledge of the cosmos. This substance that has been found is the element that makes up the neutron star. A neutron star is a small core that is left behind after an explosion of a really huge star maybe hundred times larger than our own sun (supernova).
The core might only have a 20 kilometer radius, but spins at incredibly uncontrollable speed of maybe some hundred revolutions per second. And also the neutrons in these stars are so densely packed, that only a teaspoon of the surface of these stars may weigh the same as a billion cannon balls. Now the latest breakthrough is the information of their surface. Previously it was thought it was just as hard as titanium, due to insufficient and impossible lab conditions. But now with the help of computer simulation Horowitz and Kai Kadau of the Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that the crust is much stronger and may be even 10 billion times stronger than steel. Pity these elements can’t be brought to the earth they will always hand around somewhere far beyond.