Talk:Neutron Star (short story)

message: I've removed " Satisfying, albeit scientifically flawed" from the body of this article for two reasons. Firstly, although Niven's work is generally hard SF, it is, nonetheless, fiction- it is redundant to point out every instance of scientific fallacy in a fictional story. Second, nothing was included in the original article that detailed what exactly was flawed; if anyone can give valid scientific reasons that the end was innaccurate, it would be constructive to create a new section that details what could be corrected.EvilMrWizard 01:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Scientifically flawed" removed 

message: I've expanded the synopsis of "Neutron Star" to be more complete and descriptive of the storyline. Most of the original text was moved to the top. 
- John 06:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synopsis expanded 

message: Can anyone demonstrate or point to the mathematical analysis that allegedly shows that the ship leaves with a spin?  Intuitively (I don't have the math) it seems to me that the same tidal force that imparts spin as the ship approaches peri-position would tend to reduce spin as it left; i.e., the tide wants to keep the long axis pointed at the star at all times, so as the ship recedes toward infinity in its parabolic orbit, it would slow down.
Consider also conservation of angular momentum.  The ship has to pick up that spin from somewhere, and if BVS-1's rotation is slowed a tiny bity by the ship orbiting in one direction, would it be sped up if the ship approached from the opposite side?  (I guess the ship's spin would then be opposite, so maybe.) -- AJWM, 6/25/08  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.81.65.99 (talk) 07:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It just occurred to me that the effects of space and time dilation would do some wonky things to how the tidal forces would be experienced in the local frame.  I suspect they'd both make things significantly worse, but I haven't the math at the moment.  LordQwert (talk) 01:56, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mathematics of the tidal forces 

message: The third sentence of the second paragraph of the plot summary starts off as thus: "It is thus the only warship...." I understand that it's for emphasis, and the MOS allows for that, but it feels off to me. Could anyone please tell me if this is a good use of emphasis or not?--Thylacine24 (talk) 10:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of italics in "warship" 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 12:14, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Neutron Star (short story) →  – Per WP:DIFFCAPS and page views, this is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the proper noun "Neutron Star", as opposed to the common noun "neutron star". Paradoctor (talk) 11:03, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 8 September 2023