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As most people who have done any amount of physics know, no object is truly solid; go small enough and you will find vast amounts of space containing atoms, electrons, etc, all relatively enormous distances away from each other.

What would happen, then, if you had a truly solid object? One that, no matter how much you zoomed in, even to atomic scale, was one monolithic piece of substance (I can't even specify a substance, since that would suggest an atomic/molecular structure, which this couldn't have)? How would you even go about trying to answer this? Such an object seems to break everything I know about physics (which isn't a lot). Would any quantity of it just instantly collapse into a black hole?

Edit: The suggested duplicate question, while correcting my erroneous initial statement, doesn't answer the main question, which, as I have rightly been informed, is a 'what if' question about an object entirely comprised of solid matter (as opposed to energy occupying the 'space' within atoms)

As most people who have done any amount of physics know, no object is truly solid; go small enough and you will find vast amounts of space containing atoms, electrons, etc, all relatively enormous distances away from each other.

What would happen, then, if you had a truly solid object? One that, no matter how much you zoomed in, even to atomic scale, was one monolithic piece of substance (I can't even specify a substance, since that would suggest an atomic/molecular structure, which this couldn't have)? How would you even go about trying to answer this? Such an object seems to break everything I know about physics (which isn't a lot). Would any quantity of it just instantly collapse into a black hole?

As most people who have done any amount of physics know, no object is truly solid; go small enough and you will find vast amounts of space containing atoms, electrons, etc, all relatively enormous distances away from each other.

What would happen, then, if you had a truly solid object? One that, no matter how much you zoomed in, even to atomic scale, was one monolithic piece of substance (I can't even specify a substance, since that would suggest an atomic/molecular structure, which this couldn't have)? How would you even go about trying to answer this? Such an object seems to break everything I know about physics (which isn't a lot). Would any quantity of it just instantly collapse into a black hole?

Edit: The suggested duplicate question, while correcting my erroneous initial statement, doesn't answer the main question, which, as I have rightly been informed, is a 'what if' question about an object entirely comprised of solid matter (as opposed to energy occupying the 'space' within atoms)

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What would the properties of a truly solid object be?

As most people who have done any amount of physics know, no object is truly solid; go small enough and you will find vast amounts of space containing atoms, electrons, etc, all relatively enormous distances away from each other.

What would happen, then, if you had a truly solid object? One that, no matter how much you zoomed in, even to atomic scale, was one monolithic piece of substance (I can't even specify a substance, since that would suggest an atomic/molecular structure, which this couldn't have)? How would you even go about trying to answer this? Such an object seems to break everything I know about physics (which isn't a lot). Would any quantity of it just instantly collapse into a black hole?