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What would happen to this box?

Asked by Zathura12 (68points) December 21st, 2009

Say you took a box the size of a mini fridge out into space. Then you sealed it up out there. Air (Space) tight. Let’s say that the walls of the box are 1inch thick steel. Assuming we magically get it down to sea level on earth, would the box collapse since there is essentially 0 pressure inside?

Wouldn’t technically be a box of nothing?

Going deeper, how can NASA or physicists explain space and it’s nothingness?

Like the box collapses because there is nothing inside, so the only way to have this ‘space’ exist is to keep expanding, but where to?

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