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2 sliding scales of interpretation, just how we like it. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child)

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?

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    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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