Believers and non believers? When an Atomic Bomb explodes what causes all the fire and smoke and energy? Or?

Question

Do they just cram the explosion up inside of the metal bomb shell? What causes it to explode? What creates the fire and energy and smoke that we see as a result? I know the answer I just want to see the responses?

Answer 1

Splitting atoms releases a lot of energy and causes chain reactions that cause other atoms to split, but this is a question for scientists, not theologists. Asking your question here is a little cruel... don't you think?

Answer 2

The splitting of atoms of a certain variety--particularly certain isotopes of uranium or plutonium--releases a great deal of energy. A chain reaction of splits rapidly multiplies and this energy is translated into kinetic energy (the energy of moving particles) and heat on a massive scale. The "explosion" is the incredibly rapid outward expansion of kinetic energy and heat. This disrupts, compresses, and heats the atmosphere, which in turn impacts everything around it, including more atmosphere, trees, buildings, etc. Close to the explosion this pressure wave caused by expanding atmosphere, plus physical objects blown by it, causes massive physical destruction. The dynamics of the moving heat and air create pushing, suction, and vacuum effects which pick up dirt and debris and carry them into the air. A combination of this debris and the smoke from burned objects combined produce the visible "smoke" that we see.

If you really want to get technical, the energy to produce all of this comes from what's known as the "mass defect," i.e. the difference between the atomic weights of the original unsplit nucleus, and the sum of the atomic weights of the daughter nuclei resulting after the split. The "defect" represents the amount of nucleic matter that has disappeared, i.e. can no longer be accounted for physically. It has been converted from matter into energy, and is the core source of the energy of the explosion.

Fair explanation?

Answer 3

I get what you were trying to explain....I think. It's the fact that just the simple act of splitting an atom. which is not visible at all to a person can cause such a mass explosion, containing fire/smoke/energy that wasn't previously there. very similar to the big bang but on a much larger scale. I guess thats why you asked for believers and non believers.

Answer 4

Energy is produced when the fissile atoms break down into smaller atoms with a very slight loss of total mass.

There is an explosion because this is a chain reaction, with each atomic break down releasing enough neutrons that they then impact other atoms and cause them to break down too.

Everything else comes from the effects of releasing a large amout of energy in a very short time.

Answer 5

Oy.

Believe it or not, I was going to search this and then worried that homeland security would ship my butt down to Gitmo, so I decided not to learn. Great. I'm usually not paranoid, but I guess we all have our breaking points!

But here's what I THINK happens:

I think it's based in fission, wherein the bomb is engineered so that impact is the catalyst for a rapid breaking apart of the atoms, resulting in an explosion (the rapid dispersal of energy).

Answer 6

I am sure it is God's wrath ... a snit, so to speak...
Or perhaps it is the result of matter being converted into energy? Hmmmm interesting thought...that would be called fission, but then again, I remain hopeful that I will not have to contend with this energy in the future. I have seen enough of it in the past. And there is NO smoke involved ... that is ground dust and carbon from the inceneration of whatever was in the energy's path. And trust me, there is more than one atom being split into smaller atoms in a nuclear chain reaction..hence the name, chain reaction.

Answer 7

It really depends on what type of bomb you're talking about.

A thermonuclear weapon detonates by causing materials to collide or split. There are two types: fission and fusion. In fission, a neutron is accelerated into the nucleus of an atomic particle which splits it into lighter elements, more neutrons and lots of energy. In fusion hydrogen isotopes combine into heavier elements and release energy in the process. Interestingly, the fusion reaction requires a fission reaction to start the process in order to generate enough heat, energy and pressure.

Answer 8

"with or with out faith, undesirable human beings will do undesirable issues and robust human beings will do stable issues. whether it takes faith for stable human beings to do undesirable issues." Steven Weinberg "the religion of the destiny would be a cosmic faith. it would go beyond very own God and dodge dogma and theology. masking the two the organic and the religious, it would be consistent with a non secular sense springing up from the adventure of all issues organic and spiritual as a significant unity. Buddhism solutions this description. If there is any faith that could desire to deal with present day scientific desires it would be Buddhism." (Albert Einstein) "It replaced into, of direction, a lie what you study my religious convictions, a lie that's being systematically repeated. i do no longer think in a private God and that i've got in no way denied this yet have expressed it needless to say. If some thing is in me which may well be talked approximately as religious then it extremely is the unbounded admiration for the form of the international so some distance as our technology can demonstrate it." (Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein: The Human edge, edited through Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton college Press

Answer 9

E=MC^2

Nuclear fision, when an atom is divided and causes the cascade effect, which spreads the fision to the entire instable material the incredible power of einstein's famous equation is activated, and matter is converted into a phenomenal amount of energy.

Answer 10

It's the energy released from the splitting of the atom.

Now less seriously, it is hell being released through a wormhole caused by the reaction of matter and anti-matter in the bomb core, which was designed by the evil empire of Ming the Merciless.