Voidium

Voidium is an element discovered by Neo Boreopolean scientist Ioannis Delhopoulos in the late 10th century AA. It is considered to be an essential building block of the universe and is responsible for the creation of Craftera as a habitable planet.

## Discovery

The existence of Voidium was first put forward as a hypothesis by Ioannis Delhopoulos in his work *The Location of the Nether*, a work exploring the physical location of the Nether in Dimension S-2020. In this work, Delhopoulos puts forward the theory that the Overworld envelops the Nether and is separated from it by a layer of highly magnetic gas. However, Delhopoulos was unable to put his theory to the test before the Great Collapse caused the destruction of S-2020 and the transportation of Neo Boreopolis to Dimension S-2012. Luckily, Delhopoulos survived the Great Collapse and was hired by the Library to continue his research. Delhopoulos gathered support and funding to conduct an expedition to Hadespoort. In 962AA, he left to the Nether and was able to break through the bedrock layer above Hadespoort. Now above the Nether, on what he called 'the Nether Roof', he gathered samples of the atmosphere. Back in the Overworld, he applied the same method to break through bedrock in a mine underneath Ingen City and obtained another sample of the Void's atmosphere. After analyzing both samples in a lab, Delhopoulos discovered the samples repelled each other and thus hypothesized that they had opposite charges. Eventually, Delhopoulos wrote his findings down and published them, earning him the honor of discovering a new element which he called Voidium.

## Properties

Voidium can have two different charges, a positive (Voidium+) and a negative (Voidium-). Particles with opposite charges will repel each other, while particles with the same charge attract each other. When both are forced within a closed circuit, Voidium- tends to float on top of Voidium+, possibly explained by the absence of elektrons causing a slight difference in density.

In certain circumstances, Voidium can be a dangerous substance. While Voidium+ is perfectly safe when inhaled by organisms, Voidium- can cause suffucation in large quantities. As a result, it is safe to live on the Nether Roof, but deadly to go under the Overworld's bedrock layer without protection.

As of the 12th century AA, a method to change the charge of Voidium has not been discovered yet. However, scientists theorize that doing so could cause an explosion strong enough to wipe out entire cities.

## Applications

One major application of Voidium is portal technology. Obsidian holds a small natural amount of Voidium in its molecular structure, allowing it to transfer matter through the void layer separating the Overworld from the Nether. While this property of obsidian was unknown before the discovery of Voidium, ancient civilizations were still able to discover and operate Nether portals.

Since the discovery of Voidium, Hadespoort has begun harvesting Voidium+ from the Nether Roof and construction of a Voidium-powered transportation network on the Nether Roof has begun.

## Scientific Literature

1/39 | *The Location of the Nether* was written by Ioannis Delhopoulos in 43AUC (*2020*). It debates the location of the Nether in relation to the Overworld. The book is stored in the Borges Library under the Exact Sciences section.