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Old 03-September-2008, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Tog_ View Post
Okay, those that know more, feel free to jump in here. For dissolved hydrogen to be the source of the extra volume, that would mean the Earth was always around 1 Earth Mass, right?

It's not getting many more matter, it's just converting the matter it has to a less dense version. So wouldn't that also require a LOT more energy to push the surface out that far against the same gravity we have now?
one of many problems. Also to "convert" as rodin speaks about would require a philosophers stone and a magician named Gandalf.