the sun is equivalent of how many nuclear bombs????

Answer 1

Kinda hard to say as it's not really clear.

But the total energy output of the sun per second is somewhere around 3.86×10^26 (386,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) Joules per second.

The total energy output from the "Little Boy" bomb that hit Hiroshima was 6.3×10^13 (630,000,000,000) Joules. This was a yield of only 12 Kilotons of TNT.

The total energy output from the "Tsar Bomba" (the largest atomic bomb ever constructed at 50Megatons) was 2.1×10^17 (210,000,000,000,000,000) Joules.

So the total energy output of the sun in one second could be equal to 6,126,984,126,984 Little Boys or 1,838,095,238 Tsar Bombas.

Answer 2

I've always Wondered about this. First of all, someone here said that Atomic Bombs are "Fission" and the Sun is "Fusion." Incorrect. Most modern bombs are thermonuclear weapons with a Deuterium-Tritium (hydrogen isotopes) Fusion Secondary stage, set off by a Fission "Primer." Even said Primer is "Boosted" with a little fission. I would imagine that the Blue Gas Giant Stars may well be over one TRILLLION H Bombs/second. This seems improbably Large-especially when, in the Case of our Sun, it goes on like this for Five Billion years(!).

BUT...you need to Understand a few things. Stars are BIG Mothers. The Solar Core alone (where all the Fun happens) is about 200,000 Kilometers in Diameter. (or is it miles-only about a factor of two difference.) But that's 2 x 10*8 Meters. You need to cube that for the volume (I'm ignoring Pi because these are back-of-the-envelope calculations.) So, THEN, you get 6 x 10*24 cubic meters. H Bomb yields Vary, but I would imagine the Ulam-Teller "Physics Package" of a Bomb to be about one cubic meter. OH-and I Forgot that many of those bombs have a uranium shell so they are Fission-Fusion-Fission Bombs-with most of their energy actually being from the Fission. This is Not the case with Stars like our Sun. The enormous Mass and Volume of a Star means that all that Fusion lights it up AND is just enough to keep it from collapsing from it's own Gravity. This Freaks me Out since 1. Gravity is the weakest of the four forces of the Universe, while the Strong Force that generates all the Stellar Energy is the Strongest and 2. Hydrogen is the Lightest element on the Periodic Table. Note that Deuterium and Tritium are two and three times-respectively-the mass of ordinary hydrogen. Because of Relativity-this makes them easier to fuse into Helium. Even Hydrogen Bombs would NOT be possible with simple fusion of protons.

The importance of all of this is that Controlled Nuclear Fusion-a Holy Grail of Science-may or may not ever happen. The whole Earth is a small fraction of the mass of the Sun. We don't have the luxury of Gravity to help us in our Quest.

Answer 3

The question is ask many times by different person but im not saying that i know everything.

I ll just try to answer this on the best of my knowledge.

as you know sun is a heavenly body with tremendous amount of energy...

sun is incomparable to nuclear bomb in terms of equivalent energy released or conserved since even we have the technology we have very small amount of nuclear fuel to produce such massive energy.

next sun is in type of fusion correct me if im wrong as i said i don't want to be the smart guy ^^. and the bomb is fission the difference is huge while the fission reaction split up atom to produce energy and consumed matter fusion do it in reverse process....

it collects matter to release massive amount of energy and it is self sustaining.

the energy of the sun therefore is incomparable to the nuclear bomb in terms of how many.

the computation says its about a billion per sec yes but still estimated up to the present knowledge of science till now ^^.

hope that i answer this question in manner that will help you !!!

and im a filipino thank you ^^.

Answer 4

Impossible question

The reason why is because you would have to specify an exact point in time.

The sun looses vasts amounts of energy every second, and the mathematical number is dropping continuously.

Also you would have to know the exact weight, of both the earth, and the sun at the exact point of time specified.

The earth gains energy in mass continuously through falling meteorites which although most burn up in our atmosphere, also pepper our planet with large amounts of dust.

The figure which you seek is extremely large.

Answer 5

In one second about millions of hydrogen bombs explode and the energy released in the form of light reaches the earth.
For a hydrogen bomb to explode alot of energy is required and to reach the energy requirment an atom bomb is installed in it.
first the atomb bomb explode then the hydrogen bomb.
H+H+energy= He

Answer 6

According to this web site, the answer is 100 billion per second.

Answer 7

Trillions

Answer 8

Billions.

Answer 9

About 200 ish.

There would be a formula for working that out.

Answer 10

Several.