http://www.physorg.com/news188211977.html
What we have here is a total lack of respect for the law
I got to this point "When the gold nuclei, traveling at 99.999% of the speed of light, smashed together, the plasma that resulted was so energetic that a tiny cube of it with sides measuring about a quarter of the width of a human hair would contain enough energy to power the entire United States for a year."
...and figured that as its accuracy was approaching 'debatable' I'd be better off getting the hamster wheel back up to speed (i.e. back to work, Monday morning!).
...and figured that as its accuracy was approaching 'debatable' I'd be better off getting the hamster wheel back up to speed (i.e. back to work, Monday morning!).
Radius of gold nucleus: 7.3e-15 m
Volume of gold nucleus: 1.6e-42 m³
Mass of gold nucleus: 3.3e-25 kg
Density of gold nucleus: 2e17 kg/m³
Kinetic energy of rigid body at 99.999% of lightspeed: 2e19 J/kg
Volumetric kinetic energy of gold nucleus: 4e36 J/m³
Width of human hair: 1e-4 m
Volume of a cube one quarter as wide as a human hair: 1.6e-14 m³
Kinetic energy of a volume of nuclear gold the size of said cube at 99.999% of lightspeed: 6e22 J
Power level necessary to expend 6e22 J in a year: 2e15 W, or about 2e3 times the electrical power level of the United States.
I can see an expanding quark-gluon plasma passing through 2e33 J/m³ at some point...
On the other hand, gold at 99.999% of the speed of light is at an energy of about 40 TeV, which I was not aware RHIC could pull... even if that's head-on collisional velocity between two beams, it's still 20 TeV...
Or maybe my math is wrong somewhere. It's been a long day...
Volume of gold nucleus: 1.6e-42 m³
Mass of gold nucleus: 3.3e-25 kg
Density of gold nucleus: 2e17 kg/m³
Kinetic energy of rigid body at 99.999% of lightspeed: 2e19 J/kg
Volumetric kinetic energy of gold nucleus: 4e36 J/m³
Width of human hair: 1e-4 m
Volume of a cube one quarter as wide as a human hair: 1.6e-14 m³
Kinetic energy of a volume of nuclear gold the size of said cube at 99.999% of lightspeed: 6e22 J
Power level necessary to expend 6e22 J in a year: 2e15 W, or about 2e3 times the electrical power level of the United States.
I can see an expanding quark-gluon plasma passing through 2e33 J/m³ at some point...
On the other hand, gold at 99.999% of the speed of light is at an energy of about 40 TeV, which I was not aware RHIC could pull... even if that's head-on collisional velocity between two beams, it's still 20 TeV...
Or maybe my math is wrong somewhere. It's been a long day...