On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

So if you could magically transmute all the electrons of a lump of
iron into muons (and keep them stable) . . . The newly muonic iron would be an almost totally ionised plasma . . . in the liquid and solid state, they would be more than 200 times more
closely packed in each dimension . . . .

Hmmmm

Sounds sorta like a description of jump space and the cloud of hydrogen one needs to enter it.

Perhaps something discovered while attempting to find the key to Jump 7+ leads to developing superdense materials instead?

Richard Aiken

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