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Tiny Piece of This Would Weigh as Mt. Everest

Tiny Piece of This Would Weigh as Mt. Everest

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Imagine a substance so tough it makes steel look like spaghetti—enter nuclear pasta. No, it's not some bizarre fusion of Italian cuisine and nuclear physics. It's what forms in the core of neutron stars, where insane pressure turns the usual atomic spaghetti into something 10 billion times stronger than steel. These pasta-shaped structures are like the Avengers of materials, defying the laws of physics with their incredible strength. If we could somehow bring nuclear pasta to Earth, we'd have a building material that could withstand almost anything. 🍝💪🌟


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Nuclear pasta: M.E. CAPLAN, C.J. HOROWITZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...


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