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"The point sticks in your head: physics rules. Virtue does not triumph unless the physics allows it."
- Larry Niven
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| Neutronium | ||
| Extremely dense material. |
| We're going to project a fourth-order force out to grab us some dense material, a pretty close approach to pure neutronium. |
| Technovelgy from Skylark Three,
by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Amazing Stories in 1930 Additional resources -
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Also from the novel, first published in Wonder Stories:
Compare to impervium from Clash by Night by Lawrence O'Donnell and
scrith from Ringworld by Larry Niven and
ultron from Armageddon: 2149 A.D. by Philip Frances Nowlan.
Ten enormous supporting forces held the lens of neutronium immovable in the exact center of the upper end; at intervals down the shaft similar forces held variously-shaped lenses and prisms formed from zones of force; in the center of the bottom or floor of the towering structure was the double controlling system, with a universal visiplate facing each operator.
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