• SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    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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        9 hours ago

        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.