Posted on 11/07/2017 7:05:11 PM PST by sparklite2
I did, but other people had tromped all over the thread by the time I read it.
Got a hair pin?
Unfortunately, the only way to create quarks is to break up larger subatomic particles. This takes as much energy as the quarks will release when they fuse together. In other words, no free lunch.
Who has a good enough arm to throw it?
"A joule, symbol J, is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units. It is equal to the energy transferred to, or work done on, an object when a force of one newton acts on that object in the direction of its motion through a distance of one meter (1 newton meter or N⋅m)."
E = (52.6167) x (300,000) x (300,000) = 52.6167 x 90,000,000,000 =
473,550,300,000,000 jollies, or 4.7 x 10^15 jollies of energy.
I believe I got this right.
Yes, and "4.7 x 10^15 jollies of energy" is the equivalent of ~1 million tons of TNT! So you'd better be careful when monkeying around with those 'jollies'. Could blow up half the state! :0!
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Your calculation is off by a factor of 1 million. Joules are the SI energy unit. All SI derived units are built from the SI base units for time, distance and mass (also electric current, amount of substace, luminous flux and temperature, but those are not needed in this case.) The relevant base units are meters (not km), kilograms, and seconds. Therefore to get energy in J, you must use c=300,000,000 meters/second. This is a thousnd times the value of c in km/s. Squaring gives the factor of 1 million.
You're decades too late, Tully Bascomb took the prototype Qbomb to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick a long time ago.
Thanks. I should have looked up the distance units for a Joule. I assumed they would be km, not meters.
In any case, since I was off by a factor of a million, a 160 lb person only carries around the equivalent energy of about *one* ton of TNT. That's nothing to sneeze at either. In fact, you'd better not sneeze! Might wipe out the entire block!
You are low by 1million. You need to use the speed of light in meters per second.
Thanks. That was pointed out to me and discussed in the posts directly above this one.
Hey the Q-BOMB was only just mentioned in the last movie in the Starship Troopers series.
A paper entitled, “Quark Fusion in Quasi-Steller Objects?” was already published in the Jan 15, 1971 Astrophysical Journal. The authors realized that a whole lot of energy would be released. Why would someone be worried about publishing this now?
Quark fusion is estimated to require temperatures of millions of degrees Kelvin. Luckily back in 2012, someone already produced a reaction with gold ions that reached about 4 trillion degrees. No quark fusion was reported.
But they don’t sustain a chain reaction — no bomb potential...
Ping to build a black hole in your back yard.
One of the problems in A.P.French's 1968 Special Relativity is to calculate the cost of heating a swimming pool using tritium. He supplies the cost of separating the isotope and energy released. In 1968 dollars it's about $50 million. It would be cheaper to burn dollar bills.
...all the way to China?
Thanks bitt.
That would be common sense. And it was a joke, btw.
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The snapping shrimp competes with much larger animals such as the sperm whale and beluga whale for the title of loudest animal in the sea. The animal snaps a specialized claw shut to create a cavitation bubble that generates acoustic pressures of up to 80 kPa at a distance of 4 cm from the claw. As it extends out from the claw, the bubble reaches speeds of 100 km/h (62 mph) and releases a sound reaching 218 decibels.[12] The pressure is strong enough to kill small fish.[13]
The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing cavitation bubble. As it collapses, the cavitation bubble reaches temperatures of over 5,000 K (4,700 °C).[16] In comparison, the surface temperature of the sun is estimated to be around 5,800 K (5,500 °C).”
That’s why biology is more interesting to me than physics.
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