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Subject: Can someone explain how nukes are so powerful?

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  • 12.23.2012 3:32 PM PDT
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Atoms and stuff.

  • 12.23.2012 3:34 PM PDT

Posted by: TomoK12
Haven't got a clue and never want to learn why because I hate Nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. They're so uncivilised...
and just how can you trust that judgment if you know nothing about them?

  • 12.23.2012 3:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragondude80
Are you seriosly posting on the Flood and EXPECT to get actual answers!??

I gave him one.

  • 12.23.2012 3:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: TomoK12
Haven't got a clue and never want to learn why because I hate Nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. They're so uncivilised...
and just how can you trust that judgment if you know nothing about them?

Because the members of his favorite rock band told him they were bad.

  • 12.23.2012 3:38 PM PDT

Bones of my enemies.


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Posted by: Devastation182
Space magic.


Fixed

  • 12.23.2012 3:42 PM PDT
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CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Posted by: Tympanicmetal
1 thing creates 2 things.
2 things each create another 2 things.
These 4 things each create another 2 things.

Get it?

Oh and all that, over and over again, not even within a second.

Now imagine all those ''things'' are small pieces of energy.
You get the point.

  • 12.23.2012 3:53 PM PDT

Rawr!


Posted by: WrongLord
Nuclear Fission.
Don't forget fusion

  • 12.23.2012 3:56 PM PDT

It's actually pretty simple, my history teacher taught me how to make a Nuke (In theroy, we didn't actually make a nuke) but unfortunatley I've forgotten, as it was a while ago.

  • 12.23.2012 3:59 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

It's all about making the composition of elements unstable.
You break atoms up (fission) or chuck enemy atoms together (fusion).

Either way, the atomic orientation becomes unhappy and releases huge amounts of heat energy and radiation as a result.

[Edited on 12.23.2012 4:11 PM PST]

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aliens

  • 12.23.2012 4:11 PM PDT

Marine Corps.
Semper Fi.

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  • 12.23.2012 4:13 PM PDT

Posted by: Silentone2
Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: TomoK12
Haven't got a clue and never want to learn why because I hate Nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. They're so uncivilised...
and just how can you trust that judgment if you know nothing about them?

Because the members of his favorite rock band told him they were bad.
i'm sure that band also has a few things to say about the evils of willingly perpetuating ignorance and unsupported preconceptions.

  • 12.23.2012 4:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: Silentone2
Posted by: petarded2
Posted by: TomoK12
Haven't got a clue and never want to learn why because I hate Nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. They're so uncivilised...
and just how can you trust that judgment if you know nothing about them?

Because the members of his favorite rock band told him they were bad.
i'm sure that band also has a few things to say about the evils of willingly perpetuating ignorance and unsupported preconceptions.

Only if it's said vaguely enough to still be marketable.

  • 12.23.2012 4:18 PM PDT


Posted by: Forever MS
I'm confused by the physics of nukes. How does such a small object (15 feet at the most) capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people? When it explodes, how does it expand so much?


E=mc^2

  • 12.23.2012 4:23 PM PDT


Posted by: tomgaz
Because E=mc^2 - the energy stored in a mass is proportional to its mass, with c^2 being the "exchange rate", if you like. c^2 is a huge number, so you don't need a lot of mass to release a lot of energy.

As to why nukes are so much more powerful than conventional weapons, well, normal weapons rely on chemical reactions which convert a much smaller amount of mass into energy than the nuclear reactions which power nukes.
Chemical reactions don't convert any amount of mass to energy. They only convert energy to other forms of energy.

  • 12.23.2012 4:28 PM PDT


Posted by: everywhere116

Posted by: tomgaz
Because E=mc^2 - the energy stored in a mass is proportional to its mass, with c^2 being the "exchange rate", if you like. c^2 is a huge number, so you don't need a lot of mass to release a lot of energy.

As to why nukes are so much more powerful than conventional weapons, well, normal weapons rely on chemical reactions which convert a much smaller amount of mass into energy than the nuclear reactions which power nukes.
Chemical reactions don't convert any amount of mass to energy. They only convert energy to other forms of energy.


Stored energy in the atoms to kinetic and heat energy.

  • 12.23.2012 4:36 PM PDT

Nuclear Power and it isn't small

  • 12.23.2012 4:37 PM PDT
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Really? REALLY?

  • 12.23.2012 4:38 PM PDT


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Posted by: everywhere116

Posted by: tomgaz
Because E=mc^2 - the energy stored in a mass is proportional to its mass, with c^2 being the "exchange rate", if you like. c^2 is a huge number, so you don't need a lot of mass to release a lot of energy.

As to why nukes are so much more powerful than conventional weapons, well, normal weapons rely on chemical reactions which convert a much smaller amount of mass into energy than the nuclear reactions which power nukes.
Chemical reactions don't convert any amount of mass to energy. They only convert energy to other forms of energy.


Stored energy in the atoms to kinetic and heat energy.
Stored energy in the chemical bonds. You want to start talking about energy stored in the atoms themselves, then your in nuclear physics and reactions.

  • 12.23.2012 5:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: DarkBen64
Don't punch a British kid, the queen'll come after you.

Nuclear fission converts mass straight into energy that is released very violently.

Mass is a very concentrated form of energy.

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