That can withstand anything no matter how hot cold or powerful and never be destroyed?
2006-08-06 17:11:56 · 13 answers · asked by n8boi02 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Well what I mean is: Is there anything that can be created but not destroyed?
2006-08-06 17:29:22 · update #1
I don't believe so, at least not according to modern scientific theories.
All matter is made up of molecules which are held together by intermolecular bonds, and molecules are simply atoms that are joined together by intramolecular bonds. Each and every bond has a specific "bond dissociation energy", meaning that the application of that specific amount of energy will cause the bond to break, essentially "destroying" the material. Since no known material has infinite bond dissociation energy, there is nothing that is 100% indestructible.
2006-08-06 20:36:53 · answer #1 · answered by Strange Days 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Examine the periodic table of elements. Elements make up all compounds, but the elements themselves "break down" or "fuse" only in stars or similar nuclear furnaces. Release of energy and loss of mass according to Einstein's E=mcc [energy equals mass times the speed of light squared] accompanies such behavior.
An example is gold, an element. Gold is indestructible by any conventional definition. But so are all the other elements.
Carbon is another element, and so "indestructible", but it, like everything, will change form depending on what it is subjected to. Pressure and heat can allow carbon to fuse into diamond, which is just one of its crystalline forms. In turn, a diamond can burn up in a fire (similar to charcoal, another but highly impure form of carbon).
So, maybe the clearest answer is, "No, nothing is 100% stable."
2006-08-07 00:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by widowmate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Energy/Mass. Changed, converted, stored, released, etc..etc....etc......but NEVER destroyed. On a more useful note, science is always searching for materials that will withstand extreem conditions (the tiles on the space shuttle, for instance) but for the present - the search for an indestructable material goes on.
2006-08-07 00:28:05 · answer #3 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is indestructible.
It was created and could therefore be destroyed in an equally energetic environment as the place it was born.
Does anything on earth have the capability of producing such an energetic environment? That is another question.
btw: Matter can be "destroyed" and converted into energy. No such definition of matter exists that claims it cannot be destroyed.
2006-08-07 00:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
An ideology is 100% indestructible.
2006-08-08 08:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by blind_chameleon 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Material - No. Entropy however is the only "thing" I can think of that can only increase or stay the same and can never be lowered or "destroyed".
2006-08-07 11:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Sander O 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Matter. By definition it can be neither created or destroyed
2006-08-07 00:18:40 · answer #7 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
dark matter from the earths core it has been there since the earth formed it holds everything in a constant state of being pulled into it
2006-08-07 04:22:09 · answer #8 · answered by sean b 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
energy can not be destroyed
2006-08-07 00:42:57 · answer #9 · answered by ckm1975 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
water
2006-08-07 00:15:57 · answer #10 · answered by jangofettforhire 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋