Sunday, October 5, 2008

Demanding more.

I will give an answer from the realm of physics. Once, when I was a nice, honest young man, I was interested in that field. There is something in physics - you have a certain amount of pressure on something, and there is a point at which it can take no more. When you put then times, on hundred times taht pressure on it, something happens. The molecules collapse, and the very nature of the object changes.

In astronomy, you have what is called "white dwarves." These are small stars, the size of the earth, sometimes even smaller. The mass they contain is many times that of the sun. Each cubic centimeter weighs many tons. Why? Because the matter collapsed and became something else; the laws themselves changed.

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