Stable and Lightweight Neutronium or Quarkonium Knife: What would you do with it?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:39 pm
Picture this with me: Imagine if human science in the not too distant future learned how to make stable and lightweight materials from pure bonded neutrons, or, quarks or some other ultra dense and ultra strong material, and it could be made as cheap as low-cost steel or even wood. This would make diamond and carbon nanotubes seem like wet tissue paper or air in comparison, strength wise.
Now, let's imagine that knives of all manner and shape can be made with this, and you had a fixed blade or folder with a neutronium blade.
As things are in nature, neutronium does exist, it exists as a super compressed nuclear liquid that can form pasta shaped solid shapes, too. It is only stable within the extreme gravity field of neutron stars. Quark stars exist too it is estimated.
But picture a knife, say a fixed blade with a 3.5 inch long blade and the blade is neutronium 1 mm thick. 1 mm of this would be stronger than hundreds of miles of the hardest perfect steel or even than thousands and thousands of miles of it. It could slice through the hardest rock like grainite or gemstone like diamond as if they were air or water. What would you do with such a knife? How would you like that?
Safe, lightweight, stable neutronium.
What I would also like you all to do is speculate with me and please tell me, if humans had the technology to do that, to make this, what applications and uses could you see this being used for beyond personal knives and cutting tools?
Super Drills?
Super Armor?
Needles and Probes that could go through things like no normal metal needle?
Space Tethers for Space Elevators?
Super Rocket Nozzles and Containers for super heated plasma?
Think about this: If you had a neutronium knife, you could cut solid rock and the ground as if it were air, or less, with that little resistance. Normal chemical molecules would be like or water in comparison to the density and hardness of this material. If you could prevent the surrounding material from caving in, you could singlehandledly dig your own underground tunnels and shelters and all sorts of things. Imagine a personal car sized vehicle with neutronium drill-heads on the front of it: You could make your own tunnels.
You could wear an ultra thin neutronium foil suit that would make you impervious to sharks, crocodiles, spiders, snakes, bears, tigers, and any other animal predator.
What would Spyderco do if they could make objects from cheap stable lightweight neutronium?
Now, let's imagine that knives of all manner and shape can be made with this, and you had a fixed blade or folder with a neutronium blade.
As things are in nature, neutronium does exist, it exists as a super compressed nuclear liquid that can form pasta shaped solid shapes, too. It is only stable within the extreme gravity field of neutron stars. Quark stars exist too it is estimated.
But picture a knife, say a fixed blade with a 3.5 inch long blade and the blade is neutronium 1 mm thick. 1 mm of this would be stronger than hundreds of miles of the hardest perfect steel or even than thousands and thousands of miles of it. It could slice through the hardest rock like grainite or gemstone like diamond as if they were air or water. What would you do with such a knife? How would you like that?
Safe, lightweight, stable neutronium.
What I would also like you all to do is speculate with me and please tell me, if humans had the technology to do that, to make this, what applications and uses could you see this being used for beyond personal knives and cutting tools?
Super Drills?
Super Armor?
Needles and Probes that could go through things like no normal metal needle?
Space Tethers for Space Elevators?
Super Rocket Nozzles and Containers for super heated plasma?
Think about this: If you had a neutronium knife, you could cut solid rock and the ground as if it were air, or less, with that little resistance. Normal chemical molecules would be like or water in comparison to the density and hardness of this material. If you could prevent the surrounding material from caving in, you could singlehandledly dig your own underground tunnels and shelters and all sorts of things. Imagine a personal car sized vehicle with neutronium drill-heads on the front of it: You could make your own tunnels.
You could wear an ultra thin neutronium foil suit that would make you impervious to sharks, crocodiles, spiders, snakes, bears, tigers, and any other animal predator.
What would Spyderco do if they could make objects from cheap stable lightweight neutronium?