Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20180622162042/@comment-25396609-20181024223223

Maybe you should be using wikipedia or a dictionary when referencing the actual meaning of words.

ANYWAYS.

Condensation, reduction, compression, what you call it doesn't matter.

The point is there's only TWO ways to make something smaller. You either REMOVE material from it, or you squeeze until it has a lower volume.

In the case of the first method you're either stripping a bunch of mass out of it and throwing it somewhere else,  or you're converting that extra material into energy.

In the case of the second you are effectively squeezing the atoms together, pushing all the protons and neutrons and electrons in nice and close so there's less empty space between them.

When you squeeze matter together like that...

Ever heard of nuclear fusion? That thing they build MASSIVE particle accelerators to do with just a handful of atoms at a time?

It requires a ludicrous amount of energy to forcinly shove two particles into a tighter configuration, because the force with which they repel each-other is quite significant.