Posted on 07/18/2015 3:40:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An extra five minute’s sleep
The fortune teller at the circus tried to sell me one. I’m still not interested.
Trump is a strong force. He’s got his quarks, but he sure is causing perturbation of the rats and GOPe.
Trump is a strong force. He’s got his quarks, but he sure is causing perturbation of the rats and GOPe.
Does it taste like chicken?
I thought Quark was a bar tender on the Star Trek series DS9
It would mean to me, at lower than the molecule level, how any coffee company is able to make ‘pumpkin pie flavoed coffee’, without any pumpkin pie in it at all.
I have trouble drinking 5 quarks of beer.
Dow Chemical made a pie a few decades ago that had no natural ingredients in it.
Isn’t that a former Indian themed summer camp than now helps inter city nerdy kids learn to code and make websites?
I give up.
I’m never any good at these guessing games.
“Pentaquark”?
The latest sedan from Dodge?
It would still mean God in the mix.
Brilliant. I had missed this. thanks for the post.
When protons and neutrons merge to form atoms, they relinquish some of their mass. The missing mass (or mass defect) is converted to energy, which, in overly simplistic terms, is whats being used to hold the atomic nucleus together. Its called binding energy. To split a nucleus into its constituent particles would therefore require an ABSORPTION of energy; it would not release it.
However, lets assume that you could convert all of the atoms in a human body to energy. The amount of energy stored in a given amount of mass is given by the formula E = mc^2.
A mass of 1 kg therefore releases:
E = (1 kg)(3.00e8 m/s)^2
E = 9.0e16 J
Thats equivalent to about 21.5 megatons of TNT, or the approximate explosive yield of a large hydrogen bomb.
And thats just one kilogram (2.2 lbs).
So the explosive yield of any mass, if it is converted entirely to energy, is 21.5 megatons per kilogram (9.77 megatons per pound).
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In other words if you weigh between, say, 150 and 200 pounds, you are carrying around between (68 x 21.5) and (91 x 21.5) megatons of potential nuclear energy, the equivalent of 68 to 91 large nuclear bombs, at least according to the piece above. So PLEASE be careful not to burp or bump into someone!!-ETL
Kind of wild for an old guy like me. Thanks for posting.
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