A fully solid object occupies space that cannot be encroached upon, unless something changes about that body. You can't shrink the size of ice without ice having to completely change its molecular configuration from a lattice for the ice down to a fluid, which is then water. So no, you can't take two ice cubes and just merge them into one object that does not wor. But thai's true for any solid, homogeneous object.
What happens when three black holes collide? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore even more cosmic collisions in space, in the quantum realm, and more!
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