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2442909 No.2442909 [Reply] [Original]

Have you guys seen this /v/ thread?

What does actually happen?

>> No.2442914

The car's moving. The wall is stationary. This should be obvious.

>> No.2442924

Diamond can scratch diamond, you should be able to figure out what will happen.

>> No.2442927

he drags the wall with it without a problem, they're driving in space, what could go wrong?

>> No.2442951

Assuming that the wall stays stationary, then they should both have the same impacts on them; if one is destroyed, then so should the other. If the car simply bounces off with no damage, the wall receives no damage.

>> No.2442981

I don't think "hardness" is a particularly useful trait for the implied point of this thought experiment. It being the resistance to being scratched and all...

>> No.2442998

As hardness increases, so does brittleness. Both will shatter.

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2443016

depends on the Velocity V.
if it is below the tensile strength of this imaginary element. It would bounce off. With out knowing something about the forces invilved this is mental masturbation.

>> No.2443046

It's not even mental masturbation, it's just stupidity, seeing as hardness is one of the least significant issues of this problem.

>> No.2443049

if they are both made of the same thing they may as well both be made of glass or ice. it all depends on mass and velocity.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, therfor P remains constant

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2443076

Astrophysicists (To start the post with a scientific word) classify the world in Hydrogen/Helium and Metals. Anything and everything that isn't Hydrogen or Helium is a metal to them.

Under Astrophysical terms Diamond (And therefore Carbon) is the hardest metal known to man.

>> No.2443080

>>2443076
[citation needed[

>> No.2443081

>>2442914
No, the car is stationary and the wall is moving. This should be obvious.

>> No.2443083

>>2443080
I thought this was common knowledge.

>> No.2443084

>>2443076
Don't go there, man. That pit is deep and filled with Trolrogs (trolls+balrogs, don't ask...). In astrophysical terms, neutronium is the hardest metal known to man.

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2443146

>implying something (anything really) with "hardest metal"

>> No.2443694

the wall is a solid body, a car will be made from various component and will there for crumple under the impact. if your saying the car is also a solid body them its up to jesus to decide

>> No.2443709

>>2442909
You do realize that a hammer can smash a diamond into a bunch of tiny little pieces.

Force doesn't suddenly stop transferring just because one of the objects is harder than the other.

>> No.2443722

Which is the higher quality diamond?

Oh wait, it doesn't matter, it seems both things are made of billions of diamonds glued together. Both will come apart where the glue connects them.

>> No.2443737

>>2443076
You are obviously wrong.

There is no way astrophysics would classify things like nitrogen gas, or carbon dioxide, or organic molecules, metals. They are not that stupid.

>> No.2444211

>>2443737

...

GO DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH.