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slutticus

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Fri Feb-04-05 05:20 PM
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Total Protonic Reversal

"Imagine every atom in your body exploding
at the speed of light..."

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immoderate

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Fri Feb-04-05 05:27 PM
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1. Gnarly, Dude!

Like total immersion!

--IMM

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Richardo

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Fri Feb-04-05 05:31 PM
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2. Egon: "It would be bad."

Loved the Egon.

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slutticus

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Fri Feb-04-05 05:36 PM
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3. But my favorite line...

..."Back of man....I'm a scientist."

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edbermac

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Fri Feb-04-05 06:36 PM
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7. I'm a little fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing....

:dunce:

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Salviati

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Fri Feb-04-05 05:37 PM
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4. A quick order of magnitude calculation:

Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 05:38 PM by Salviati

Dan Akaroyd: 200lbs -> 5.46*10^29 amu (atomic mass units)

Assuming he's made purely of hydrogen (which will underestimate the energy of the ensuing blast as this has the effect of only including the lowest energy electron in the calculation of the potential energy between the nucleous and the electron)

Each amu corresponds to -13.6 eV of binding energy, if we turn all the protons into antiprotons, this will flip the potental energy to +13.6 eV per amu.

So we have an energy of 7.5*10^29 eV

or 1.2*10^11 Joules

or about 28 tons of TNT

"It would be bad."

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slutticus

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Fri Feb-04-05 06:09 PM
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5. Wouldn't the annihilation of every proton release more energy than that?

I'm a little rusty with my matter/anti-matter physics.

It would mostly be gamma radiation, correct?

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Salviati

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Fri Feb-04-05 07:00 PM
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8. I'm just assuming that the protons are all turned into antiprotons...

Then everything in the body would be postively electrically charged, and kablooie!

I suppose when they start interacting with the regular protons in the surroundings, we get some matter/antimatter reactions and then much bigger kablooie!

using the old chestnut E=mc^2, it works out to be about 2.9 TerraTons of TNT for 100 lbs of antiprotons anniliating with 100 lbs of protons (figuring the mass of the body is about half protons and half neutrons...)

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slutticus

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Fri Feb-04-05 07:02 PM
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9. Yeah...that's more along the lines of what I was thinking....

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :crazy:

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Worst Username Ever

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Fri Feb-04-05 06:17 PM
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6. Nimble little minx, ain't she.

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Taxloss

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Fri Feb-04-05 07:05 PM
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10. "The next time someone asks you if you are a God ..."

"... say YES."

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