SenorToenails wrote:
paul386 wrote:
1 atom of hydrogen contains enough energy to power the world by the way.
In 2005, the world used on the order of 10
20J. If the entire mass of the hydrogen atom (1 proton + 1 electron) were converted into energy with 100% efficiency, the energy is only ~940 MeV, or ~10
-10J. It
could power the world, but only for ~10
-23 seconds.
So 1 mole of hydrogen would do use good for 6 seconds. Sounds reasonable.
unnamednewbie13 wrote:
For some reason, particle acceleration experiments on the only planet we have sounds a dozen kinds of dumb.
For some reason you sound pretty dumb. Do you even know what a particular acceleration does?
It puts a natural phenomenon into a controlled environment so we can study it. Kind of like a zoo.