Does anyone know? I just thought it would be cool to know answer. thank you
2006-07-25 16:28:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
if you take a chunk of plutonium with the same mass as the planet earth and detonate it, it will never come close to the energy of a super nova...
The sun is a continual fission reactor. Even the energy from the sun does not even come close to that of a super nova
2006-07-25 16:45:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You should read up on how a supernova is created. The simple answer would be that there is not enough nukes in the world to create one. A supernova is so powerful that it can scatter things over a whole galaxy, and the light can be seen from millions of lightyears.
2006-07-25 23:39:57 · answer #2 · answered by Steven C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One, and not your average toy bomb-if it was built perfectly. The nuclear reaciton would need to be self enhancing creating a perpetual chain reaction(is this possible may be a good follow up question). This superheated sphere would take BILLIONS of years to reach a point equivilent to a supernova, so in the end they would be equally destructive.
Now a hypernovae would be a more explosive answer!
http://www.armageddononline.org/hypernova.php
2006-07-26 00:17:00 · answer #3 · answered by Baron Von Bliss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that there is enough mass in our solar system
to make a supernova..
Our sun is too small to go supernova and if it were larger
by the mass of all the planets it would still be much too small..
2006-07-26 00:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the maths...
10^44 Joules of energy are released in a supernova.
there are is only about 10^13 Joules in a hydrogen atom bomb.
2006-07-25 23:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by cehelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know for sure that those would precisely make a supernova. Do you know the physics of a supernova? I don't either.
2006-07-25 23:31:30 · answer #6 · answered by Ambervisions 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't checked those numbers, but to put 10^44 vs10^13 in perspective, it would take as many H bombs as there are molecules in 300 tons of water.
2006-07-26 00:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if the entire mass of the Earth were converted into one giant nuke it wouldn't be enough. Our sun will only go nova when it dies, not supernova.
2006-07-25 23:45:19 · answer #8 · answered by Will 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A super nova is determined by the mass of an object. We could not build enough with the materials that we have here on Earth.
2006-07-25 23:31:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
big bang would disperse material not condense (mandatory step in supernova and by the way nobody 'knows' the physics they just theorize not the same
2006-07-25 23:44:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋