• Lasherz@lemmy.worldOP
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    True, quick math that’s 4225x heavier than pure uranium, but still 666x lighter than neutron star soup. No material holds together at that density without a stars worth of gravity

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      Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding. Could you express that in approximate number of cans of Dr. Pepper?

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        you need the gravity of a star like Taylor Swift to hold a mass as small as Marco Rubio but as dense as R.F. Kennedy Jr.

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        It’s the size of a dr. Pepper and the weight of 3 baby elephants.

        It’s also the size of a baby elephant foot and the weight of 728 cans of dr. Pepper.

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          That’s fine and dandy, but what I really wanna know now is, to the size of how many Dr. Pepper cans can I compress 3 baby elephants and have that hold together?

          • 3 baby elephants, each about 100 kg is 300 kilogram. Round to density of water, so say 300 liter and ignore the chunks. One can is 0.355 liter. Round to ⅓ liter. That makes 900 cans. About one pallet low stacked pallet.

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              Thanks for spelling that out, but maybe I need to be more specific about the assignment. In your example the elephants still consist of elephant matter. I wanna know what happens, if we’re allowed to change that on a nuclear level, so shift some protons, neutrons (and whatever other particles, that I know nothing about) around. How many Dr. Pepper cans is the currently known limit of physics here?

              • Say we change the mass of elephants to osmium. That’s 41 liter or 123 cans. That fills up about half of the bottom of a pallet.

                Say we chuck the elephants into Jupiter and let them sink to the core. That’s 27 liter or 80 cans. Roughly 3 cardboard trays of 24 cans each.

                Say we chuck the elephants into the center of the sun. That’s 2 liter or 6 cans, so a six-pack.

                If you use exotic matter things get silly. You’re not talking about cans anymore. 300 kilograms of neutronium is barey a micrometer in size. Black hole matter is smaller than a proton.

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        Say you had a year’s* worth of Dr. Pepper supplies jam-packed into a single can of Dr. Pepper.

        * approximate values assuming 3 servings a day