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Letter: Warp speed pulsar

Published 1 February 2006

From Mark Monks

Theoretically impossible fast pulsars appear to exist (21 January, p 17). Wouldn’t a super-fast pulsar conform to the conditions specified for a test of the Heim theory of quantum gravity (7 January, p 24)? The theory predicts that if an electromagnetic ring spins fast enough, a decrease in inertial mass will occur. This in turn would require a recalculation of the maximum frequency.

Gravesend, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2537 published 4 February 2006

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