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Yes. As a rough approximation, imagine the earth is a sphere of solid iron near its melting point. (It's not, but this is just an approximation). From numbers obtained in Wikipedia, you can calculate how much energy it would take to vaporize this. it comes to about 5.6 * 10^31 Joules.

The sun puts out about 3.9 * 10^26 Joules per second. This means the amount of energy put out by the sun in about 40 hours, is enough to completely vaporize the earth.

Or to put it another way, the energy of 40 suns could vaporize the earth in one hour. Or the energy of 143,000 suns could vaporize it in one second. And there are a lot more than 143,000 suns in the universe.

So, the answer is a definite "Yes."

2007-08-08 04:22:40 · answer #1 · answered by RickB 7 · 3 0

Yes. There is more than enough energy in the Sun alone to vaporize Earth, and the Sun is only one star in a universe with more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.

2007-08-08 04:48:13 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1 0

There is enough energy here on earth to vaporize the entire planet.

2007-08-08 03:58:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I think it is possible to vaporize the planet earth if all the energy present in the universe concentrated at a single point.
Just like a magnifying glass.

2007-08-08 04:27:18 · answer #4 · answered by vinayak k 1 · 1 1

Energy is the cause why the Earth moves at each space displacement. it makes the earth move not pulverize it.
Energy is defined as a process; it is not a quantity.

In order to Understand Energy ,a distinction has to be made between mass and energy.Mass is a quantity ,Energy is not.

2007-08-08 04:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 1 2

Yes. Next!

2007-08-08 04:09:19 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan H 6 · 1 0

Yes. An infinite amount of times.

2007-08-08 04:03:48 · answer #7 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 0 0

Well, yes. Too much. But i don't think you'll be building a Death Star any time in....let's just say awhile.

2007-08-10 02:31:38 · answer #8 · answered by Zakary 1 · 0 0

yes like a thousand trillion times more

2007-08-11 13:29:12 · answer #9 · answered by Manisha 2 · 0 0

Way more than enough. Orders of magnitude more than enough.

2007-08-08 03:58:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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