The star's life
history will depend primarily on its birth mass: how much stuff it contains at
the start.
A neutron star just
twenty kilometers across would weigh as much as our sun, and a teaspoon of
neutron-star stuff would weigh a billion tons.
Gold makes up less
than a trillionth of the mass of the sun.
But the sun is so large that extracting all that gold would make you
extremely rich, because it would yield much more gold than exists on planet
Earth.
Intuiting the
thoughts and feelings of others may have been an important step toward
consciousness, the enhanced awareness of what is happening in our own minds.
