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Althistorybuff
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I have a sci-fi idea regarding being able to move planets around like billiard balls.
I'm theorizing that, after a nova, some of the bands of material around a star formed a new ring of rocky planets around a Neutron Star. Naturally, these are bathed in radiation.
Having never taken high school physics, would the electromagnetic radiation and radio waves emitted leave a "toxic" environment like spent nuclear fuel here or would removing the planet from the offending pulsar or neutron star remove the problem? i
Basically, I am creating a world and want to know if one could theoretically move planets to a more desirable neighborhood, how long would it take for the radiation to dissipate (half-life out) etc, assuming that these are even the right terms for this type of radiation. I didn't understand the Wikipedia entry so I thought I might try to get someone to dumb it down for me.
So, would being battered by electromagnetic radiation for potentially millions of years create a situation where even a terraformed planet would be uninhabitable or does this type of radiation not leave this long term problem?
Thanks.
I'm theorizing that, after a nova, some of the bands of material around a star formed a new ring of rocky planets around a Neutron Star. Naturally, these are bathed in radiation.
Having never taken high school physics, would the electromagnetic radiation and radio waves emitted leave a "toxic" environment like spent nuclear fuel here or would removing the planet from the offending pulsar or neutron star remove the problem? i
Basically, I am creating a world and want to know if one could theoretically move planets to a more desirable neighborhood, how long would it take for the radiation to dissipate (half-life out) etc, assuming that these are even the right terms for this type of radiation. I didn't understand the Wikipedia entry so I thought I might try to get someone to dumb it down for me.
So, would being battered by electromagnetic radiation for potentially millions of years create a situation where even a terraformed planet would be uninhabitable or does this type of radiation not leave this long term problem?
Thanks.