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At what velocity are the box’s dimensions and effective mass determined?
Neutronium… I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn’t a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?
On the order of a billion tons.
He said “physically” which is wrong because Neutronium. What he possibly meant was “practically” in which Osmium would be the only element you can practically fit in the box since it isn’t possible to synthesize neutroniun at that amount or handle that much safely.
I guarantee that it is physically impossible to fill a cardboard box with pure neutronium. Is it physically possible to get over 70 lbs of the stuff in there in a stable, shippable manner? I don’t know, and neither do you. It’s certainly far, FAR beyond the capability of any technology on Earth, but I guess it might maybe possibly not break the laws of physics. I can’t prove that though, and neither can you, so neither of us can actually prove the statement wrong.
No you mean theoretical. As neutronium is a theoretical substance. To our knowledge there’s no way to find it outside of neuron stars. It is therefore physically impossible, within our current state of knowledge.
It’s highly unlikely, bordering on theoretically impossible to assume that mankind will be able to synthesize enough to fill a cardboard box with. Then the practical side says even if that was possible, there would probably no way a cardboard box could contain that (and a plethora of other practical impossibilities).
That and the neutrons would rapidly undergo beta decay producing a LOT of free energy and other particles.
Yeah there physical and practical reasons intermixed!
Big Bada Boom!
If mailing 70 lbs of unstable particles that can’t exist outside of a lab is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
It would be interesting transporting a microscopic object weighing 70lbs.
Something something my penis
it isn’t possible to synthesize neutronium at that amount or handle that much safely.
To be clear, the neutronium you’re talking about here is the one that is theorized to exist at the core of neutron stars? Could you elaborate on how much has been synthesized and could be handled safely?
Wasn’t neutronium practically synthesized in miniscule amounts in the Large Hydron Collider? Also I am not a quantum physicist, so I am not sure if any neutronium is currently safe to handle beyond a miniscule amount considering a sugar cube sized amount of neutronium is theoretically the weight of a large freight ship.
I always fill them up with that stuff black holes are made of, it’s pretty dense.
USPS GOAT. Fuck privatización.
Milten Friedman is the reason we are where we are today.
But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town’s nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon
We recently moved in a very rural area. The rural carrier for our new route gave us a form to fill out, and by the end of the week we were receiving mail. UPS and FedEX on the other hand, wouldn’t deliver to us for a month. USPS will carry our packages up our driveway to our steps; UPS and FedEX throw them in the ditch by the mailbox.
Also, did you know you can buy stamps, cards, and envelopes directly from the rural carrier? Here’s a fun quote from the rural customer registration form:
Rural carriers maintain a supply of stamps, cards, and envelopes for sale. Additionally, your carrier will accept Certified Mail™, Registered Mail™, insure packages, and prepare money orders. Generally, rural carriers can extend practically all services available at a Post Office. Please purchase a sufficient supply of stamps and affix proper postage on all outgoing mail.
Imagine how bleak things would be if Amazon was running the show. USPS is truly the best
Imagine how bleak things would be if Amazon was running the show. USPS is truly the best
I’m sorry you are only subscribed to Amazon letter prime, in order to get your packages you must collect them from your nearest whole foods or upgrade to prime plus.
We’re sorry prime plus is not available in your service area.
I would expect better from UPS, and as usual the USPS surprises me with their quality.
I would think Americans of every political stripe would say the post office is the best government institution we have. That tells you that attempts to undermine them aren’t in our best interest.
Private companies love the heartland and will work out of patriotism even if rural routes are less profitable! 🤡
8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8"
Don’t write yourself off yet, learn metric.
moving from Europe to America the amount of times I’m like “it’s 12 3/8ths” to try to, yknow, join in, and everyone’s like “call it 12 or 13”
motherfucker that’s a huge gap!
For most of the rest of the world, that’s about 219 mm × 137 mm × 41,3 mm
For those of us that don’t use arbitrary made up units at all, that’s 1.35515609E+34 Planck Length x 8.477460474E+33 Planck Length x 2.555613997E+33 Plank Length.
Use real measurements. A meter is how far light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second? Statements made by the utterly deranged.
I’m sorry but… Length and Units? Actually disgusting. There is only ONE thing that exists, and it is inversely proportional the base rate of growth in half of a circular degree about a complex orthogonal dimension.
Finally a truly universally usable measurement for everyday use
It’s only in your head you feel left out or looked down on…
just try your best, try everything you can
And don’t you worry what they tell themselves when you’re away
at least 2 sci-fi franchised used "neutronium as a ex machina armor: sg1 and ST(exclusive to select advanced race who can use and make the “armor”
What about a ’ shrodingers 71 pounds ’ cat.’
If it was dead before you put it in the box, it’s still dead.
True but if it is 71 befor putting it in…
Inside the box it can stay 71 or… loose fat to 35 . You can only know by picking up the box.
Apparently neither of you are aware of how dense I am. ;)
But do you fit into that box? 🤔
first, ya cut a hole in that box…
I’m pretty sure you’re about to break a lot of postal regulations.
You know…
Looking at the list of restricted items, you can’t mail live animals, or cremated remains. But if you mail only your dick in a box it wouldn’t really be live anymore and isn’t cremated (yet). I suppose it could fall under perishable items though.
Nothing one of those fancy new blenders couldn’t handle.
Don’t breathe this.
I have mixed feelings about this.
If you stuffed that box with neutronium then:
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Funny event: it’s so dense the Earth itself is basically a thin gas in comparison and it immediately falls through the floor, the ground, and the mantle to oscillate around in the core.
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Funny other event: It’s so massive it dominates gravity nearby and everything within a couple of meters gets turned into Cool Physics from aggregating onto an incompressible box really fast and hard. Maybe the nearby atmosphere ignites from being compressed into plasma against the box.
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Real physics step in and the neutronium immediately decompresses and the mass equivalent of an inland ocean in neutrons and angry high-energy high-mass decay products sterilizes everything through to the horizon with a gamma ray burst, also triggering massive seismic events from the blast as well as killing everything on Earth since the atmosphere is now radioactive and a lot thinner
Ugh… does this mean I have to go all the way down to post office to get my package again?
Part two turning things into cool physics made me giggle IRL, good job
- Sweet
- Also sweet
- Yikes okay don’t try that then. Though I am tempted to observe the cool physics…
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It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.
Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.
Okay so I originally assumed this was probably due to some union rule or something like that. But I didn’t find any reference to it in the NALC guidelines, anything in the USPS resources center (which is hard to use), anything in google searches, and the original employee documentation or spec.
I did find the USPS History section and it turns out they have someone whose job title is “Postal Historian”, Stephen Kochersperger.
But, anyways, I found the address (not email of course haha) for the USPS history office so I have wrote up an letter and put it in the mailbox. I will eventually update yall
This is the case for most “Dumb laws”: there’s an outlier that becomes kinda silly, but it’s not really worth the effort to change.
I saw one “It’s illegal to hunt Blue Whales in Idaho”. Because it’s illegal to hunt endangered species in Idaho, and Blue Whales are endangered, not because legislators were super concerned about saving Idaho’s whale population.
I find that there’s usually a good reason for seemingly stupid shit in this world.
Was shooting the shit with a customer who was bitching about grass seed bags being full of inert materials. Had no idea! Another customer chimed in that the extra crap is to help if feed properly in a spreader.
Makes for good clickbait, heh.
Tariffs on neutronium are out of this world though.
What about dark matter? One pound of it weighs over 10000 pounds.
Do we have a source for this or are you just joking?
It’s what happens when all the gravitons and graviolis get mixed up
It’s true. One kilogram of dark matter weighs as much as ten thousand kilograms of feathers.
Doesn’t matter. You won’t see it til it too late.
What about one tablespoon of material from a neutron star?
He forgot packaging, gotta protect the ultra dense substance from bumps and scuffs
Wait until I fill that box with quark-gluon plasma.
I’ll go one better.
A (non-spinning uncharged) black hole with diameter 1+5/8th inches (so it fits in the box) has a mass of about 2.3 earths.(Near as I can tell QGP filling the whole box is around a ten billionth of that.)
Of course the box would Very quickly no longer be outside the black hole. QGP would also cause the box to no longer be a container in short order. To put it mildly.
Wouldn’t the box forever be outside the black hole… as in just on the surface as it would need to exceed the speed of light in order to actually enter the event horizon?..or is that our of date knowledge?
You need to supercede the speed of light to exit the singularity, not enter it. Now we would see an image of the box entering the black hole on its “surface” until that faded, but the box itself would still very much enter the event horizon and be destroyed.
Not only does your explanation match my understanding, but your username suggests you know this stuff.
It would also reach its destination very quickly. Or rather the other way around. Free delivery.
