Those are some good questions about collapsium. I think we need to
just assume that something like a flux capacitor enables it?...

To be fair to Beam, a lot of sci-fi is basically another form of
fantasy. Even Arthur C. Clark had things like Star Child and large
creatures living on the surface of the sun.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM dbernat <xxxxxx@gol.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025-08-26 23:54, Tom Rogers wrote:
>
> > As Piper describes it, Collapsium is impervious to almost all
> > radiation energy. It is a coating of neutrons only a single neutron
> > thick that is “applied” to sheet steel. From Piper’s descriptions I
> > would suggest it reflects the heat/energy with absolutely no
> > absorption of said energy in any way. In fact, it would be an almost
> > perfect insulating material.
>
> I am still trying to wrap my mind around the physics of collapsium.
>
> A single neutron thick layer? Would this imply a crystalline
> structure--extremely crystalline if the energy of a nuclear explosion is
> unable to disrupt neutron-neutron bonds?
>
> What happens when the nature of the crystalline structure prevents
> Brownian motion? If temperature is a crude coefficient of the extent of
> Brownian motion, does no Brownian motion place the ambient temperature
> of collapsium at near absolute zero?
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