Author name: Threeyzmonkeys

#122 What are wormholes?

I learned this today. A wormhole is a hypothetical tunnel that would connect two separate points in space. Wormholes are hypothetical and have obviously never been discovered. They were first theorized in 1916. Karl Schwarzschild, a German physicist and astronomer started looking into Einstein’s field equations. These are the equations that Einstein used in his

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#119 What is dark matter?

I learned this today. Dark matter is a hypothetical matter in space that doesn’t absorb, emit or reflect light, yet has gravity and keeps the universe together. It is theorized that dark matter makes up 27% of the universe. The part that we can see, the ordinary matter, only makes up about 5%. If dark

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#118 What exactly is pykrete?

I learned this today. Pykrete is a frozen material made of 14% sawdust and 86% water. It is as strong as concrete. Pykrete was put forward during World War II by Geoffrey Pike, who was the head of Project Habakkuk, an idea to use pykrete to build a floating aircraft carrier. The material was like

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#115 What is nuclear pasta?

I learned this today. Nuclear pasta is a theoretical matter that might exist in the crust of a neutron star. It would be the strongest material in the universe and would be ten billion times stronger than steel. A neutron star forms when a supergiant star collapses. Stars are made up of hydrogen and helium.

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