Potassium and oxygen went out. It was OK.

[lettered]

So I know I'm totally behind on answering emails to some people, sorry.

What I really wanna know is: do any of you know anything about computer hacking (in theory or in practice), and maybe wanna talk to me for just a little bit about it in the context of Tony Stark and JARVIS?

Also, do any of you know anything about physics or chemistry, and maybe wanna talk to me for just a little bit about it in the context of Tony Stark inventing a new element? I know Stark inventing the element is totally bogus, but if you're gonna pretend like it can happen I at least wanna talk about it in a somewhat plausible way. Ahhhhhhh.

Even if you have no idea who Tony Stark is, but think computers or physics or chemistry or particle physics are cool, lemme know!

Thanks.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

While the concept of inventing an element is a stretch, making one that hasn't previously been available on Earth is plenty possible. It's just that most of the ones that aren't already here have a pesky habit of unmaking themselves almost instantaneously. But if you could get them to hold still just long enough, in a big enough piece, it is theorized that there are other elements further down the line that would be stable.

People have managed to smash things together and make some of the fleeting ones. We're still waiting on the "it should be stable" stuff. But that's kind of what I thought of in the context of "Tony makes an element."

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[lettered]

Yep. I really think they want us to think that Tony did it with a particle collider, but yes, stabilizing it, there's the rub. If you were just gonna make up something wild and crazy about why it was stable, what would you say? I'm reading this article, which is really interesting.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Maybe it's like Tetris: if you put the pieces together very quickly just right, they'll stay that way. Tony is more of an engineer than a physicist, really. It would be easier for him to a fast, precise stack than to create the heat and pressure conditions to chain up to a stable element. Just build it from scratch before it realizes what you're doing.

Kind of like the way he picks up women.

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[lettered]

if you put the pieces together very quickly just right, they'll stay that way

Oh, that's really very cool.

Kind of like the way he picks up women.

hahahaha. He's sings the Tetris song in his head while he's doing it.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Yes, Tony Stark is totally the kind of person who sings video game music, in his head with company or out loud alone.

*laugh* One of these times, he's going to hijack a sound system to play it, and Natasha is going to smack him.