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Edited by CIKiller:
8/26/2018 10:24:48 PM
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If the Traveler's shell is made of neutronium, that shard should have sunk to the center of the Earth and ripped it in half.
For those of you that don't know what Neutronium is, I want you to imagine an atom. Each atom is made of Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons, but is still 99.99% empty space. These atoms made of empty space make up everything around us: Your phone, us, and the planet we live on.
However, this isn't the case for everything in the universe. There is something not made of atoms that is the potential result of a massive star's death: the neutron star, which is made of neutronium.
Neutron stars, and by extension, neutronium, are created when a star exceeding 1.4 solar masses(meaning it's 1.4 times bigger than our sun) goes supernova. From there, it becomes one of 2 things: A neutron star, or a black hole. When a supernova that forms a neutron star occurs, the Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons of every atom that made up the star get clumped together so tightly to the point that there is virtually no space between them, the Electrons and Protons merge and become Neutrons because their charges cancel each other out, leaving a material composed entirely of Neutrons, with no empty space between any of them.
As a result of there being no empty space between any of the Neutrons in neutronium, the material is absurdly dense. For example: A neutron star has the mass of 1-3 of our suns, but is in a sphere only 20-25 km in diameter. If you had a hard time imagining that, then here's another example: A cube of Neutronium the size of a die would have the mass of an iron cube 700 meters across on every side.
When I found out that this is what the Traveler was made of, I thought to myself "Thank god it flies, or else we'd all be dead", but then I remembered that there is a shard of the Traveler in the EDZ.
Let that sink in(pun not intended), if the Traveler is indeed made of Neutronium, there is now a massive shard composed of it that has somehow not sunk into Earth.
This also presents an even bigger question: What could have enough firepower to damage the Traveler, a giant ball of the densest material in the universe, in such a way that large portions of it were ripped off of it?
Sorry for this long message, but I had to get this thought out of my head.
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But its not just neutronium, its also lead and electroweak matter. Neutronium might be only a small part of its shell
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UUm but we'd be dead anyway if it's that close due to it's gravity.
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Bro, do you space magic much? :D Jokes aside, it's sci fi, so we can imagine the gardener has advanced technology that can suppress the extreme gravity of the traveler, otherwise it would not even create that crust to begin with, since it would defeat the purpose of being a creator. It can pretty much teleport that whole thing anyway, so, maybe it has a "Zero element" type of engine or something.
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I just give this game a hard time sometimes, since it seems to do the same. [spoiler]Yeah it wouldn't make much of a story if it all ended right away. Before it even started[/spoiler]
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<It's a 14 km ball. Sure if the materials are right then it would -blam!- us up, but it's not like a 14 km ball can't hover over a city. It's not the Moon.>
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Edited by Broken: 8/27/2018 9:24:52 PMThe gravitational field at a neutron star's surface is about 2×10 tothe 11 times stronger than on Earth. Even if it isn't fully made of Neutronium, it would fling the earth out of orbit then crush everything. Well before it even came close to our moon. A neutron star is so dense that on Earth, one teaspoonful would weigh a billion tons!
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Thank you!
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1) it's not solid neutronium. It might only be .008% neutronium and the rest is the lead and electroweak matter. (?) 2) just because something is dense doesn't make it strong. Lead is dense but can be bent and molded far more easily than other less dense materials. Especially if it's thin. Maybe the neutronium is like a skin over the traveler. Who knows. Could be space magic.
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[quote]Could be space magic.[/quote] The answer is [i][b]always[/b][/i] space magic.
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Edited by CIKiller: 8/27/2018 12:47:03 AMPossible. But as for the dense section, we're talking about the densest material in the universe, a material which contains the mass of iron cube 700 meters across every face in a cubic centimeter. Dense may not equal strong all the time, but with Neutronium, that's different. I'd also bet electroweak matter is what holds it together, as it is a combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
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Like many things in the Destiny universe there are ways to get around physical natures and natural forces. Kicking your way through a fence can be effective but it is easier to simply dismantle it.
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Wow what a great post. Thanks for the info!
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<Acausal forces like the Darkness could penetrate the shell... Which still begs the question of what the -blam!- can do that. Not to mention that Rasputin couldn't even damage the Darkness with his strongest weapons.>
