What would happen if you dropped a marshmallow on a Neutron star? Neutron stars have about the same mass as our sun, but have a much smaller diameter, only about 20km.
(a) How much energy would the marshmallow gain after falling a distance of 1m?
(b) Compare this amount of energy to the largest atomic bomb ever tested in the United States, the Castle/BravoA????1 hydrogen bomb which has a yeild of about 15 megatons of TNT. (1 megaton of TNT is equivalend to 4.2 A????1 1015J)