This is the BOMB to worry about

On October 30* 1961, at Cape Severney Island, Nova Zembla, the Soviet Union tested the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever created, the Tsar Bomb, codenamed Ivan. Its powerful explosion produced an incomparable 50 megatons, enough to annihilate anything within a 35 kilometer radius. The explosion was so powerful that the light and sound of the explosion could be seen and heard from up to 900 kilometers away. The heat from the explosion was so strong that it could cause third-degree burns up to 100 kilometers from ground zero. Seen from up to 100 miles away, a mushroom cloud could be a truly gruesome sight as far as powerful

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s go: the Tsar's

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set the record for the most powerful ever detonated, except that it pales in comparison to the most powerful explosive known to humanity, whose core is no larger than a pinhead.

What would happen if instead of uranium, plutonium and hydrogen, the substance was used, something so powerful that science fiction calls it the doomsday weapon that destroys planets hello everyone topic zero here neutrons are subatomic particles that have a neutral charge, they have a mass slightly greater than protons and constitute the nuclei of atoms; They are found in approximately similar proportions, usually 50/50. Neutrons can only exist, either sharing space in nuclei, where the strong force helps maintain their characteristics, or with high gravity, as is the case with a neutron star. Free neutrons won't last long on their own, typically their half-life is about 611 seconds or a little over 10 minutes and in that time a single neutron releases 1 million electron volts, but how much energy is that?

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question, we must first establish a comparison benchmark with the tnt. Trinitrotoluene is a yellow solid best known for its explosive applications. It was first synthesized in 1863 by the German chemist Julius Wilbrand. Ironically, it was first used as a yellow dye and was only recognized as explosive 30 years later. Due to its stability and potency, it quickly became the most widely used chemical compound for explosive applications. From military to industrial and mining operations, TNT is considered the standard comparison for bombs and the destructiveness of war explosives; It is common to see references to kilotons and megatons of equivalent TNT, such as the Hiroshima bomb, the little boy, with 15 kilotons, and the fat one from Nagasaki, with 21 kilotons.

To understand how TNT and atomic bombs equate, we must first understand what a unit of TNT is capable of. One kilogram of TNT has an energy density of 4.2 megajoules, which is equivalent to more than 1 kilowatt hour and the average home in the US consumes 11 megawatt hours per year, which is enough energy to power it for one hour, The heat of combustion when detonated produces 14.5 megajoules, equivalent to four kilowatt hours, it can power that same house for just under four hours, the child's 15 kilotons of TNT equivalent had an energy density of 63 terajoules equivalent to 17 .5 gigawatt hours which is enough energy to power more than 1,600 homes for a year the heat released by the pump could power even more 60.5 gigawatt hours could power more or less 5,500 homes for a year the fat man from Nagasaki adds a little more energy or 88.3 terajoules with an equivalent of 24.5 gigawatt-hours, enough to power just over 2,200 homes or almost 7,700 homes with its thermal energy equivalent to 84.6 gigawatt-hours.

In terms of destructiveness, both bombs combined would be capable of vaporizing. almost 60 million liters of water, which is equivalent to 23 Olympic swimming pools or 970,000 average adult men instantly in the radius of the explosion, the Tsar's bomb multiplies those figures by almost 1,400 times, which means more than 32,000 Olympic swimming pools and 1.35 billion average adult men, as we can see. We could kill over 17 of the Earth's population if they were all stacked on top of each other. Fortunately, that's not the case, but is there a way to be more destructive? Well, a single neutron releases about 1 million electron volts, which is negligible, but if we had, say, 1 kilogram, then things get a little more interesting in these calculations.

We assume that 1 gram of neutron has 6 times 10 to the 23rd power of particles. That's why we can calculate the energy by multiplying the result by 1 million electron volts and then Convert the results to joules and divide them by the total energy of one ton of TNT. At the end of one kilogram of total disintegration, the total energy released would be equivalent to 11.5 kilotons of TNT, which is almost as powerful as the first nuclear bomb detonated by a small child. although it releases almost the same energy as the first nuclear weapons, I should point out that the explosion would not be the same as the neutrons decay, it will release all that energy throughout its half-life, curiously it would be releasing energy for approximately 15 half hours . lives or two and a half hours, however, there is a caveat: its density, how dense is it, you may ask, neutronium is so dense that 5 cubic centimeters would weigh 5.5 trillion kilograms, which is equivalent to 900 pyramids of Giza in a teaspoon of substance.

It is believed to exist as the core of neutron stars. I should also point out that neutrons have a weak interaction with matter, so capturing them would only be possible through the use of an antigravity stasis field, something straight out of a science fiction book. This is necessary for two reasons, for one reason, to stop the decay of neutrons and, for another, to keep them against gravity, we must also take into account that

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substance would be in the form of a degenerate neutron gas, not solid, for For the sake of an argument, suppose we have the machine and call it zadina.

Also, I won't consider factors like gravitational pull or pressure, among other things, I'll just focus on the total energy of the system for my calculations. Finally, let's also assume that the antigravity stasis field will fail at four kilometers. on the surface how much damage would a teaspoon of neutronium cause to the planet using the same calculation logic as before you will arrive at this number this is tons of tnt equivalent to almost all the people on planet earth this number does not make sense so let's analyze If we reduce it To more sensible things, a good way to look at it would be to compare it to the most iconic asteroid impact to ever hit Earth, the Chick Slip impactor, the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Estimates place the asteroid between 11 and 81 kilometers in diameter, it is estimated that the impact was between 1.3 and 58 yards joules, that is, 1.3 followed by 24 zeros, so much energy created a crater 150 kilometers wide. diameter and 20 kilometers deep, five cubic centimeters of neutrons are 200 times more energy dense than the chick syllable over the estimated impact energy and four and a half times on the high end, ignoring the fact that not all the energy is would be released through the impact, if so, we could extrapolate that the salt flat would otherwise form a crater 675 kilometers in diameter and 90 kilometers deep.

To see this would be if we took your first half-life energy and then divided it by the number of seconds it takes to spend a half-life. In the first second, the energy released by zadina would be equivalent to 2 million zar bombs. The total destruction area of ​​the zar bomb is 3,850 square kilometers. zarina would have enough power to destroy the entire surface of the planet in the first second 16 times. and that would continue to happen for the next 610 seconds until its energy is halved only eight times by the time it would take to reach low levels the planet has already gone through nine and a half hours of extreme destruction, even at this point the energy released per second would still be equivalent to 1.5 kilotons of TNT, it would take five more hours for the remaining energy to be released and reach meaningless levels that add up to 14 and a half hours of pure hell.

At the end of this event, everything is destroyed, however, only 11 percent of the ocean water has evaporated at least some good. good news friends that's all, we're done here