Well, that's all good and fine, but if it's it not "Element Zero", why call it "Element Zero"? Why not just call it something like "Condensed Jones Matter"?SickBritKid said:Okay, fine.Daverson said:I could explain why you can't just have neutrons in a nucleus, but honestly, I've got better things to do with my time. Read this: http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/09/q-why-cant-you-have-an-atom-made-entirely-out-of-neutrons/SickBritKid said:I'm only JUST starting Chemistry again for college, so way to be a dick.Daverson said:SickBritKid said:Element Zero is just a name given to the star-plasma infused metal that makes Mass Effect possible. It doesn't necessarily mean that it has no protons/neutrons.
So way to fail.Element Zero (Atomic Number 0, Chemical Symbol Ez), also known as 'eezo'...Way to fail at calling a fail.the atomic number (also known as the proton number) is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom
From what I recalled, the number was the protons AND the neutrons in an atom, not just protons. Obviously, I was wrong.
But, in that case, how would that make Element Zero impossible considering that it could just have neutrons in the nucleus and no protons?
However, there's no real proof that Element Zero is actually composed of zero protons, other than it being listed with the number of 0 on the wiki. For all we know, Element Zero's not really on the Periodic Table and was simply given its name due to, as said before in this topic, the fact that it simply IS, much like Zeroth Laws used in other forms of science. They're not ACTUALLY 0, but they're called that due to their nature of fundamental contradiction/perversion of the numbered ones, much like V.I.K.I.'s whole invention of the Zeroth Law of AI in the I, Robot movie to justify the whole world conquest and suppression of the human race and stuff.
Same case with Element Zero. It's called that because it represents an impossibility that is actually quite possible(scientists are basically discovering Eezo in the LHC as we speak) and presents the possibility of space travel due to the energy given off by its God-particle-like properties.
The likes of Michio Kaku have praised Mass Effect's use of Einstein's Loophole(the fact that the Theory of Relativity only factors in positive matter in its calculations of travel close to or at the speed of light) in order to explain the space travel, after all...
I have nothing against science fiction making up some wonderful loophole to get around the laws of relativity. It just peeves me that they've tried to assign some kind of scientific explanation to it that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.
(By the way, could you kindly not butcher scientific theories to your own ends? That's what fanatics do. You aren't going to prove the existence of some fictitious wonderful material through perverting the theories of relativity and quantum dynamics any more than you could prove the existence of some fictitious wonderful supreme being...)