This could be used to easily create superdense materials. Wow.
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Regarding the diamond test: Single carbon bonds have a very specific length, therefore diamond is of fixed density. If the mechanism of SCP-170 is as you say, this test would either fuck up the crystalline structure, in which case it would cease to be diamond, or create a new diamond with twice the volume. Then again, it might just explode or something. In any case, being a man of science, I suggest conducting an x-ray crystallography test on the new diamond to see what happened there.
Otherwise it's a very strong article - good concept, good execution.
I was originally gonna have that test performed on two pieces of plutonium, to attempt to make the material more fissile, then have a chunk of blacked out words, with the occasional 'casualties estimated to be' and 'blast radius was'. I figured scientists wouldn't be foolish enough to do that, so I changed it to diamond to show that the material's strength or hardness is irrelevant to the substance's effects. Dang. thought i had all angles covered :(
I like this one a lot, the content is great and left me wanting to know more (which should be a goal of each of us authors)
I just suggest that the word poke be surrounded changed to "poke"
just so it fits the tone of the article better.
I'd change diamond, to lead just because there's less problems to worry about.
Id like to see what two organic surfaces do to each other.
I'm always getting my finger stuck to my thumb when I handle superglue, imagine that!
OK, the general consensus is that the diamond test was too unrealistic, so I changed it to gold, and added a blatant cop-out by mentioning a violation of the laws of physics.
Don't forget that this is a wiki, if anyone has an idea for a test/experiment performed on it, feel free to add it.
That can be improved eventually once more knowledgeable chaps get in on it. That's one thing I really like about this SCP - it's science fiction, where almost every other one is fantasy. It's a postulation of a reasonably feasible phenomenon. Ultimately you should clean that diamond/gold issue up in order to keep it that way.
Point of note though: I don't think any of us doubt that hardness has nothing to do with the substance's mechanism, because destabilizing something's molecular structure tends to be pretty badass in and of itself.
This phenomenon is known as phazing. The molecules of the object shift out of "phase," allowing them to pass through solid objects without resistance. The constant danger of phazing as a method of travel is made obvious here, should whatever mechanism used to create the effect fail whilst one is "inside" an object, they'll fuse, molecule for molecule, with said object. This is also a danger in teleportation.
The concept of a tube of superglue that phazes things for a split second, so that they can be bonded molecularly, is, quite frankly, absolutely brilliant. Please forgive the over abundance of commas.
So, it's basically Tele Fragging in SCP form?
…I just had a brilliant idea for an experiment. In most "out of phase" scenarios in sci-fi stories, there will inevitably be someone that asks, "Why don't they fall through the floor?" My proposal is this: Put some superglue on the bottom of a Class D's feet, then have them jump like they're jumping into a pool. Depending on how thick the floor is, and how tall the subject is, they may end up partially in the floor (standard telefrag) or fall completely through it.
When I read this, my first thought was, "Practical joke on Able."
He probably wouldn't appreciate the joke.
…Though that did inspire the awesome mental image of him ripping his arm free from his trapped hand and beating me to death using only the gushing stump at the end of his forearm.
Surely his soggy forearm wouldn't gush, seeing as how there's no heart there pumping blood.
No, no, it's still connected at the shoulder. torn at the wrist, I think he meant.
Man, I couldn't help but wince at the X-ray photo when I read the caption.
hmm, the idea that the "atoms are closer than physics would seem to allow" would make me think that there would be a lot of testing about that, and how that quality is permanent. if you were overcoming the nuclear force in pushing two atoms together, the resultant eruption of energy would be pretty huge. That's how suns work by just pushing hydrogen together, gold would resist this force by many, many times over. Only large enough stars are able to even compress hydrogen into the fundamental elements, and when they do that they supernova.
I know the general consensus on this site is to just say "oh my, it disobeys science," but I was thinking, what if this substance is only made to glue objects together which wouldn't react poorly, and not to shove them too far in? So when you DO shove two bars of gold (or whatever) together, you either get an explosion or a new atomic material. The second option would probably be better, because the resultant explosion would probably be…I don't know, incredibly large? I don't know the science on that.
I dunno, I like the article a lot, but the idea that atoms can just be too close to each other and nothing happens is kind of annoying to me. oh well, science.
Maybe the atoms themselves exist in different dimensions(as in 4th dimension) but keep they're mass in 3D.
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