Hi guys,
An interesting question, and if you will allow, here is one; a simple, unscientific view and feminine logic.
First, I think that Kantek was not destroyed in the explosion. The explosion associates me with: giving, spreading, moving heat and light. These are all adjectives that I would assign to the STO orientation.
What?! The explosion is devastating and harmful! What is too much is too much - Of course. The point is in the amount given and the need needed. That’s why CS emphasizes; give only when asked / needed, as much as needed, and what is needed.
Kantek was inhabited by a "highly developed" STS civilization. STS associates me with taking, shrinking, storing / resting, cold and dark.
That's why I think
Kantek imploded.
Implosion is a sudden decrease in the volume of a physical body in which the pressure before bursting the outer surface of the body was lower than the ambient pressure. (rough definition)
OK the main factor is pressure.
What is pressure? (rough) Pressure is a scalar physical quantity that describes the action of a force on a surface,
What pressure? What force?
What do I know. I am not a scientist. If we allow the existence of ether, maybe hydrodynamic pressure, there is atmospheric pressure, radiation pressure ... maybe gravity itself.
Mostly, Kantekians took and consumed energy (turned it into another form) and disrupted the energy structure / boundaries of their planet. How? Maybe
some kind of scalar wave. It is recommended as a source of inexhaustible, free energy.
Implosion associates me with: cavitation-> sinkholes -> earthquakes, and perhaps indirectly, volcanoes.
Loss of energy associates me with cold -> ice age-> very, very cold .... How cold?
As much as he can. Absolute zero -273 C or zero point energy '(ZPE).
Okay, and where's the mass?
If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that John Wheeler and Richard Feynman were the first to estimate the energy of the zero point. The equivalent in mass of zero point energy, using Einstein's famous equation
E = m * c2 is 1094 grams / cm3!
Is that enough to make up for the lack of matter?