Erik Max Francis wrote:

:YKhan wrote:
:
: Sure, that's why I said "until" which has an implied "if" in there.
: Anyways, I can see even unstable degenerate matter as useful, if only
: as concentrated explosives that can blow a hole through any normal
: matter. This stuff should pack more energy than either nuclear fission
: or fusion, but less than matter-antimatter reactions.
:
:Now you're talking about something else; earlier you said they would
:"hard." Degenerate matter has no "hardness." It's dense because there
:is a huge amount of mass compacting it into a degenerate state. That
:mass doesn't give it hardness, it just makes it dense. Hardness and
:density are not the same thing.
:

For an every day example of this, look at lead (or gold). Both quite
dense. Both quite soft.


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