Does anybody know what is going to happen to yellow haribo gummy bear when you put it to Stanford Linear Particle Accelerator?
I was driving the other day with my friends on 280 and had really interesting discussions about it ...
thanks
jiri
2007-03-08 09:18:52 · 8 answers · asked by Jiri 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
THANKS A LOT everybody for great answers !! I wasn't having fun like this for long time.
My theory is that since this is yellow (funny and tasty) gummy bear that he is going to stretch into very think 2-3 miles long spaghetti and will look like squirrel after very long cold winter.
2007-03-09 04:31:57 · update #1
It will become cherry flavour because of the sub atomic particle rearangement! Quarks switching it on to different flavours!
2007-03-08 09:37:33 · answer #1 · answered by Yahoo! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is going to happen, I'm sorry to say. Even if you broke your gummy bear down to a single molecule (probably sugar) nothing would happen. LINACs accelerate ions, and sugar is a pretty stable molecule. It would just sit there, shedding little gummy bear tears.
2007-03-08 09:32:49 · answer #2 · answered by Bigsky_52 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is in ambient air, it wil oxidize and slowly burn away.
If it is in a vacuum environment, it will slowly be radiolyzed/pyrolyzed into a chunk of charcoal.
Hopefully they won't be shooting any deuterons or heavy ions at it or what's left of it could end up becoming very radioactive due to induced radioactivity!
2007-03-08 09:32:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably wouldn't even fit, they are dealing with micrograms of matter in the collision chamber.
2007-03-08 09:24:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably would turn into one trillion particles. The real question would be....would it lose its taste?
2007-03-08 09:26:35 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ Karen ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-08 09:25:31 · answer #6 · answered by Krayden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'd probably warm up a bit, not much else...
2007-03-08 10:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by other_user 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What were you smoking? I want some of that!
2007-03-08 09:24:20 · answer #8 · answered by HomeSweetSiliconValley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋