What is Stone a miserable little pile of secrets in the previous video we ended up on my theory that stone could be Carbonite this hinged around the fact that it’s an igneous rock in the game I mean we see it formed from lava but you could interpret this in a different way and While thinking about this I realized that I missed a glaring piece of evidence that would change the entire interpretation the evidence doesn’t come from the stone block but it comes from the Minecraft world itself before we get into it the channel just passed 20K Subs So I’d like to say welcome to all the new people and thank you so let’s address the igneous rock part an alternative is that stone is not being produced from lava but the water is evaporating and leaving behind the stone the water block is the block that is Being replaced and this was brought up by several people in the comments and I had originally mentioned this back in the stone and obsidian episode minerals dissolving in and precipitating from water or how we form caves in real life and we have caves and Cave formations in Minecraft so we have precedent for this happening if you have a hard water in your house you’re probably familiar with something called lime scale if you haven’t heard of hard water it’s a term for water that has a certain amount of minerals dissolved in it it’s very Common if you get your water from aquifers that are in or passed through Limestone when the water evaporates it leaves these minerals Behind These are called a precipitate it’s coming from the water sometimes you’ll see like a white film in the bottom of a cup or you Know it will clog up your shower head with enough time I have hard water where I live and I let some water evaporate in a cup here you can see the material in the bottom it’s normally just called lime scale but it’s calcium carbonate the main mineral that makes up Limestone This is a small amount of carbonate and it made me think how much dissolved carbonate can water hold and is there enough to make a one square meter block of Stone so to find that out add another stop on our trip so we’re gonna consider what if it’s not igneous And then we’re going to go out to a nice warm ocean so not all rocks are the same Limestone can have different densities I have two core samples here that show that they’re they can have pores which reduce the density or they can be a very tight Rock Like this one limestone comes in many different varieties uh here are a few different textural and color examples Limestone has a density range of about 1760 to 2560 kilograms per cubic meter so that’s just how much one Minecraft block of stone would weigh somewhere between those range is what common limestone is So let’s look at water sea water if you take one meter of seawater and you let it all evaporate you’ll have about 6.63 kilograms of material left behind in seawater a lot of this is salt there are rocks that are called evaporites that form from water evaporating a modern Example of that is a great Salt Lake in Utah for example and ancient evaporite deposits are actually what I’m researching in Australia I don’t think the rest of the evidence points to Minecraft stone being an evaporite Rock but we’re still going to use seawater as our our extreme and end of what’s Possible and I should say possible at like standard temperature and pressure on planet Earth if we look at fresh water the upper limit for dissolved calcium carbonate is about 0.375 kilograms per meter cubed so considerably less than seawater and I’m going to mention that I’m considering water at all to be the same Block in Minecraft there is no distinction between fresh water and seawater or anything and even though technically different biomes have these different colors so that there’s some representation that these waters are different but there’s nothing in game that actually points to what that what that actually is we don’t know how salty Seawater is or if fresh water is necessarily fresh but but we can fill a cauldron with rain in Minecraft and that should have almost nothing dissolved in it so you should have a pretty good range of things so we can take these maximum for dissolved minerals and the Density range for a limestone and see how much water we would need to make one Minecraft stone or we can see how much Stone one block of water would make so we’ll look at seawater first and with a low density Stone one cubic meter of water or just one block is probably what I’m gonna save for the most of this we’ll make point three eight percent of one stone block if it was a high density then would go down to about 0.26 percent of one stone block if we wanted to make one cubic meter of stone low density Stone then we would need 265 blocks of seawater or 386 blocks of seawater for the higher density Stone but this is the extreme man let’s look at the more reasonable fresh water scenarios one block of water will make about point zero two one percent of one stone block cute little guy there But if for a high density Stone it goes down to 0.015 percent this does change you can see it moving very tiny and if we wanted to make one full block of stone we would need four thousand six hundred ninety blocks of fresh water or 6827 blocks of fresh water and this is For fresh water that has a high amount of calcium carbonate in it not all water is like this but this really doesn’t dissuade me from the pursuing this Theory more because we have lots of examples of generating infinite volumes of matter in Minecraft you know we have renewable water sources And we have bizarre time mechanics that you know things grow before our eyes all the time well that’s a weird one let’s get a different one whoa there we go so we see you know trees grow up in like a fraction of a second less than a second it’s instantaneous so who’s to Say that you’re not evaporating a whole bunch of water like there it’s continually generating and evaporating that water until basically the stone fills that space or something now with that we can actually get to the new evidence and why we came out to this ocean in the first place The Minecraft world has life in the ocean specifically Coral Coral makes its body structure out of calcium carbonate as it grows the organic part dies the mineral part Remains the new layers of coral grow on top of this it keeps growing on top of itself and real limestone is largely the Broken down bits of organisms here is a piece that’s about 450 million years old which preserves a lot of macroscopic fossils they are mostly brachiopods and bryozoans here but lots of marine organisms build their shells or support structures out of carbonate minerals and most limestone is formed from the Skeletons of the dead and so I think the fact that Minecraft has oceans with Life as we know it in there and there is an absence of a rock called limestone in the world is impossible I should say nearly impossible I mean unless the generation of coral is Like a new thing on on the world or something like that but throughout history on Earth there’s almost always been something that generates its shell out of a carbonate style material either aragonite or other minerals like that that’s return and so until they add some New evidence to the game I stand by both interpretations it all depends on if you’re on team igneous or team evaporation and I’ll say a couple things also for for clarity just because we see Stone being made by evaporation with lava now and like when we make stone that doesn’t Mean this is how all stone is formed in the world you can have multiple different paths to the same Rock and uh this goes for the carbonotite as well just because it’s only produced from one volcano right now doesn’t mean that it’s not common on other planets or that it Has to be made by a volcano you just have to have the right minerals and it has to come from a melt and if those things are set up you could have a whole planet made of carbonotite and it would be the most boring generic Rock possible There and I guess while I’m wrapping up things too lots of people commented about the difference between like hardness and brittleness on the last video when talking about the obsidian and the granite breaking absolutely 100 correct Minecraft only has the hardness term so I was just going with that there Is a lot that makes up the actual strength of a material and an obsidian is hard but brittle it’s not incredibly hard but it is a hard well I can’t even say it’s a rock obsidian is not a mineral or a rock it’s a uh amorphous Solid so obsidian is a is a hard amorphous solid but I’ll get into that in some other episode I guess I thought your guys comments in the last video were great so thank you and with that I will see you guys next time bye bye Video Information
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I present a second opinion on what real life rock Minecraft Stone could be.
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