are you drunk on xmas already

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sometimes i want to take a shot of ashtonium and coldtoothium at once

I thought you need to split atoms to make atom bombs, not putting them together?

Ashton

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

I thought you need to split atoms to make atom bombs, not putting them together?

Actually, you can make atom bombs in both ways. What you want to make a nuclear bomb is for a nuclear reaction to create energy when it occurs, in some circumstance, the fusion of atoms will produce energy and in some other the fission will produce energy. So how do you know if you need fusion or fission to create energy?

Well, nuclear energy works in the same way as potential energy, it will liberate energy sponteneously when the atoms will try to reach a more stable level. For atoms smaller than the iron 56, a more stable level is a level with more nucleon. On the other hand, for atoms bigger than iron 56, a more stable level is a level with less nucleon. This means that to produce nuclear energy using small atoms such as hydrogene and helium, you would need to have them fuse together and to produce energy using large atoms such as uranium, you would need to have it split.

Of course, it is much easier to produce energy with fission because large atoms are so unstable that they will naturally start fission even if you do not aport initial energy. Small atoms are very stable, and to have them start the process of nuclear fusion, you need an environement with extreme pressure and temperature. For reference, our sun, with a temperature of 15 millions degree kelvin at it's core and a pressure of 265 million bar, only has the appropriate condition to fuse hydrogen into helium and cannot even fuse helium yet.

Fun fact, a type II supernova comes from the fact that iron is the most stable element from a nuclear standpoint. Supermassive star have pressure and temperature so great at their core that they are able to fuse every element. First Hydrogen into Helium, then Helium, then carbon, oxygen, neon, magnesium silicon and finally iron. When the star starts to fuse iron, it cannot produce energy from the reaction because iron 56 is the most stable element. Because nuclear fusion doesn't produce energy anymore, the star can no longer support it's mass, it's starts to collapse on itself because of it's own gravity and then explode.

samX500 wrote:

Tad Fibonacci wrote:

I thought you need to split atoms to make atom bombs, not putting them together?

Actually, you can make atom bombs in both ways. What you want to make a nuclear bomb is for a nuclear reaction to create energy when it occurs, in some circumstance, the fusion of atoms will produce energy and in some other the fission will produce energy. So how do you know if you need fusion or fission to create energy?

Well, nuclear energy works in the same way as potential energy, it will liberate energy sponteneously when the atoms will try to reach a more stable level. For atoms smaller than the iron 56, a more stable level is a level with more nucleon. On the other hand, for atoms bigger than iron 56, a more stable level is a level with less nucleon. This means that to produce nuclear energy using small atoms such as hydrogene and helium, you would need to have them fuse together and to produce energy using large atoms such as uranium, you would need to have it split.

Of course, it is much easier to produce energy with fission because large atoms are so unstable that they will naturally start fission even if you do not aport initial energy. Small atoms are very stable, and to have them start the process of nuclear fusion, you need an environement with extreme pressure and temperature. For reference, our sun, with a temperature of 15 millions degree kelvin at it's core and a pressure of 265 million bar, only has the appropriate condition to fuse hydrogen into helium and cannot even fuse helium yet.

Fun fact, a type II supernova comes from the fact that iron is the most stable element from a nuclear standpoint. Supermassive star have pressure and temperature so great at their core that they are able to fuse every element. First Hydrogen into Helium, then Helium, then carbon, oxygen, neon, magnesium silicon and finally iron. When the star starts to fuse iron, it cannot produce energy from the reaction because iron 56 is the most stable element. Because nuclear fusion doesn't produce energy anymore, the star can no longer support it's mass, it's starts to collapse on itself because of it's own gravity and then explode.

I am so happy I took an astrophysics course

Hey abraker, your position as ROS is in danger.

sam is going to be the royal OT astrophysicist i swear