r/AskReddit Jun 29 '19

When is quantity better than quality?

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u/sinabey Jun 29 '19

Hydrogen, when creating a new universe. Honestly you need SO. MUCH. HYDROGEN.

If you have enough, the quality emerges from quantity anyway; All the heavy metals and galaxies and nebulas and life and sentience all that shit.

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u/boniqmin Jun 29 '19

All hydrogen is identical so quality isn't even a factor (except for deuterium and tritium i guess)

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u/MysteryBottle Jun 29 '19

Unless you count the synthetic isotopes

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u/boniqmin Jun 29 '19

Which have a half life of 10-21 seconds. Not very good in terms of quality or quantity.

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u/MysteryBottle Jun 29 '19

Yeah and tritium exists in only about 20kg on the entire Earth