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What happens if you launch a nuke into the sun?
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Is a nuke hotter than the sun?
During the period of peak energy output, a 1-megaton (Mt) nuclear weapon can produce temperatures of about 100 million degrees Celsius at its center, about four to five times that which occurs at the center of the Sun.
How many nukes is the sun?
The energy of the sun is about equal to 100 billion one-megaton bombs exploding every second. The largest nuclear bomb ever exploded was about 50 megatons.
Is a nuclear blast brighter than the sun?
The Light of the Atom Bomb: In brightness, a nuclear detonation is comparable to the sun.
How hot is Tsar Bomba?
From 0.2 to 3 seconds after detonation, the intense heat emitted from the fireball exerted powerful effects on the ground. Temperatures near the hypocenter reached 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius. This heat burned human skin as far as 3.5 kilometers from the hypocenter.
What countries would survive a nuclear war?
Below is a list of which countries will survive nuclear war:1- Iceland. Iceland is a North Atlantic island nation. ... 2- Canada. Canada is a top nuclear war survivor. ... 3- Australia. Australia is a leading nuclear war safety contender. ... 4- Newzealand. ... 5- Norway. ... 6- Sweden. ... 7- Greenland (Denmark) ... 8- Fiji.More items...•
Which nuke is the strongest?
The Tsar BombaThe Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба) (code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
What country has the strongest nuke?
RussiaNuclear Weapons by Country 2022CountryTotal WeaponsAvailableRussia6,2573,039United States5,5502,361China350350France2902905 more rows
What if we nuke a volcano?
The explosion of the bomb mixed with the build-up of pressure inside a volcano could amplify the eruption. The force would release even more ash and lava, spreading it even further than it would've gone with the volcano's own power.
How many nuclear bombs would it take to wipe out humanity?
According to the study, it would take about ten to a hundred 'super nukes' to end humanity, a publication reported. Later, a study titled “A National Pragmatic Safety Limit for Nuclear Weapon Quantities” said that any nation that will unleash more than 100 nuclear bombs on another can destroy society.
What do you need to survive a nuclear war?
Make sure you have an Emergency Supply Kit for places you frequent and might have to stay for 24 hours. It should include bottled water, packaged foods, emergency medicines, a hand-crank or battery-powered radio to get information in case power is out, a flashlight, and extra batteries for essential items.
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war?
How can I protect my family and myself during a nuclear blast?Turn away and close and cover your eyes to prevent damage to your sight.Drop to the ground face down and place your hands under your body.Remain flat until the heat and two shock waves have passed.
Is there anything hotter than Sun?
And the answer: lightning. According to NASA, lightning is four times hotter than the surface of the sun. The air around a stroke of lightning can peak at 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, while the surface of the sun is around 11,000 degrees. Meanwhile, magma can reach temperatures near 2,100 degrees.
Is supernova hotter than the sun?
Supernovae are stars that contract so much that they eventually explode. They may reach temperatures of 3 billion degrees Celsius (that's 300 times hotter than the sun) right before they explode (Dickin, 2005).
What is hotter than the sun's core?
However, outside the photosphere there is the Sun's corona, which can reach temperatures as high as 17,000,000 K; this is hotter than the center of the Sun, and is the hottest place in the solar system!
What would happen if the Sun was detonated?
There is a theory I read about some time ago suggesting that the right sort of nuclear explosive, detonated in the right layer of the Sun, could produce a sort of self-sustaining 'pressure wave' of fusing hydrogen that would consume the Sun's outer layers and bake every planet in the Solar System in a colossal nova-like explosion. As far as I know, this is considered fringe science and is not generally accepted by mainstream academia, so the chances of it actually being possible are small.
What movie is about the sun stalling?
There's a great film "Sunshine" where the sun's fusion begins to stall. Humanity builds a really big nuke with every scrap of fissile material in Earth's crust, in an effort to restart the sun. Good times.
Why does the speed of light being constant for all observers imply spacetime is non-Euclidean?
I'm a layman when it comes to physics , so the question may be ill-formed and/or incorrectly framed. I'm trying to really grasp the nature of (flat) spacetime. I'm watching this video, and she says how there's no way for the speed of light to be constant for all observers if spacetime were Euclidean.
Can we nuke the Sun?
Nothing, it's sort of constantly nuking itself. Large solar flares, natural explosions on the surface of the Sun, can release about 22 million times the energy that would be produced by setting off our entire global nuclear arsenal. There's nothing ( yet) that we can do to the surface of the Sun that it isn't already doing to itself.
What would happen if a nuclear bomb melted before it got to the Sun?
If the bomb and all its mechanisms melt before they even get to the Sun, it’s unlike they would detonate . Nuclear weapons don’t detonate by ignition like chemical explosives. So the whole bomb would probably just melt and then vaporize without exploding and long before it even gets close to the Sun.
What would happen if the Sun was a fire?
That would probably be like one rain drop on the Pacific ocean. Nothing at all would happen. The sun isn't fire. The sun is billions upon billions of nuclear reactions.
How much energy does a solar flare release?
A typical solar flare releases approximately 100 Exajoules (100,000,000,000,000,000,000 J). [ 3] That is still over 476 times as much energy as the Tsar Bomba. Essentially our largest nuke is a baby burp compared to anything the sun has going on.
What happens when a warhead approaches the Sun?
As the warhead approached the Sun, the warhead would gradually melt and most of it would vaporize, unless you triggered the weapon before it got too close (like somewhere around Mercury’s orbit).
How many megatons did the Tsar bomb explode?
The Tsar Bomba was a 50 megaton bomb exploded by the Russians. It was the largest nuclear explosion in history. It released 210 petajoules (210,000,000,000,000,000 J) [ 1]
What is the temperature of the Sun?
The temperature of the surface of the Sun is around 5,500 degrees Celsius. The melting point of aluminum is 660 degrees Celsius, of steel is around 1,370 degrees Celsius (depending on alloy). Tungsten (unlikely to be used in a satellite) has the highest melting point of any metal at 3,422 degrees Celsius, so even that would melt before it gets to the surface of the Sun.
Is the Sun a small star?
And the Sun is a relatively small as far as stars go. Human weapons, even nuclear ones, are nothing compared to it.
What would it do to the sun?
Nukes are far too tiny to do anything to perturb the sun - you’d need considerably more than the entire nuclear arsenal of Earth to do something as ‘small’ as make a visible mark on the moon. But let’s do a direct comparison. The sun’s luminosity - the total power output - is \ (3.828\times 10^ {26} \unit {W}\), i.e.
But how do we drop it in?
There’s actually a great, accessible video from Minute Physics addressing exactly this topic. So I’ll put that first.
How many do we need?
What is the total mass of nukes in the world today? Although the number of weapons is fairly easy to look up, the total mass is a harder question, since you’d need like, the count per weapon, the mass of each type of weapon, etc.
Wacky schemes aside, how do we actually get rid of nukes?
It’s somewhat less impossible to get a rocket near the sun than I initially thought. It’s still basically impossible. As far as decommissioning nuclear weapons goes, the sun isn’t a great option.
