Why: I wish to poke it.
2006-12-07 11:43:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If anyone can make this for me, I'll buy it off you. I'll give you up to 11,000.00 for it.
2006-12-07 11:44:47 · update #1
Hmmm, unless you'd settle for a single molecule consisting of trillions of atoms, no convertional material will do unless you can somehow change the laws of physics regarding the scales of nuclear forces. Fortunately I do happen to have a single atom of Umongosium-398390593930436093. Feels like a marble but weighs several hundred tons. Fedex me the cashier's check and I'll give it up, but you better hurry, it's half-life is only 2 trillionths of a femtosecond.
2006-12-07 12:00:42 · answer #1 · answered by Gary H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by my calculation, said sphere would contain 1.55 x 10^38 protons, which would weigh 2.5 x 10^11 kg. By my reckoning, that would be about what a large asteroid would weigh. In one centimeter. Now, that's not enough to have its own gravitational field or cause a black hole or anything... but what you most likely would end up with is a TREMENDOUS nuclear explosion upon its formation, which may wipe out existence as we know it. Given the fact that we can't keep an atom with 100 protons together for more than a fraction of a second, 1.55 x 10^38 protons would be quite an undertaking.
2006-12-07 12:05:41 · answer #2 · answered by Firstd1mension 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bombard the atom with wide-spectrum high-energy photons until the outermost electrons acquire enough energy to support such an immense orbit. Do it in a vacuum, or else the electrons will find a lower-energy state by interacting with neighbor nucleii. If you 'poke it', you will violate those conditions, and the atom will no longer have such ridiculous dimensions
Your financial offer is meaningless, since the quantity is unitless. Eleven thousand carbon atoms is a very small price, even if it is in the form of diamond.
2006-12-07 17:24:01 · answer #3 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if you found an atom that large, it would be so dense it would fall out of the space-time continuum, and everything else would just follow it away...
2006-12-07 11:48:13 · answer #4 · answered by boots 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it's possible. If I were able to make one I don't think I'd sell it for a lousy 11,000.
2006-12-07 11:52:36 · answer #5 · answered by thegreatdilberto 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋