Is there a way to compress matter into degenerate matter here on Earth? Would have you to constantly compress it or once you compress it does it just stay like that?

I think they have made degenerate matter, they have made a BEC and isn't that degenerate matter? I don't know if you have to constantly it tho

 

Correction: I dont think a BEC is degenerate matter

 

I don't think we can make it

the easiest way to make degenerate matter is to first make rydberg matter.

then it easy collapses to degenerate matter.

this is how ultradense deuterium was made.

Well, looks like their already working on making it into fuel, has been going on for quite some time, which seems to make sense.

Edited April 21, 201213 yr by questionposter

they're

they're

 

No, it's "their" because it's "their" action of already working on it. Though I suppose it is an incomplete sentence with that in mind, so thanks for pointing it out. There should have been another clause beginning with a verb in plus-perfect form after the comma that is after "fuel".

Edited April 21, 201213 yr by questionposter

they're = they are

 

looks like thy are already working on making it into fuel

Edited April 21, 201213 yr by granpa

they're = they are

 

their = possessive form of "to be" as an adjective, referring to their action of working on it.

Edited April 21, 201213 yr by questionposter

How did this degenerate into a question about vocabulary?

How did this degenerate into a question about vocabulary?

 

Someone pointed out a meaningless grammar mistake that turned out to not actually be a mistake itself.

I thought if they made it on earth it would just fall straight into the middle of the earth?

I thought if they made it on earth it would just fall straight into the middle of the earth?

 

Why would it do that? The ground still repels it, and it's only a small amount.

I was thinking because it is so dense, but I guess if it's only a small amount then fair enough

Why would it do that? The ground still repels it, and it's only a small amount.

 

How small? With a density ~ 5 x 10^17 kg/m^3, anything visible to the naked eye would be extremely heavy. It could easily push through the surface of the earth to a significant depth.

the density of metallic hydrogen is probably between 0.3 and 3 g/cm^3

 

even ultra-dense deuterium is only 100,000 g/cm^3

 

 

you must be thinking of neutronium

Neutronium is degenerate matter

Neutronium is degenerate matter

 

Neutronium requires unimaginable amounts of energy to create though, it takes a super-massive star to supernova to create it.

Edited April 28, 201213 yr by questionposter

Yeah good luck making neutronium on earth in any substantial quantity

Someone pointed out a meaningless grammar mistake that turned out to not actually be a mistake itself.

Nope, it started when someone made a mistake (which someone pointed out).