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reply posted on 2-12-2007 @ 06:42 AM by Karlhungis
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Now, I have never thought of the energy used for a nuclear explosion before. That is an interesting observation. I don't have the physics background to do anything other than oggle at it though. I am curious what people smarter than myself think about it.

Good point


reply posted on 2-12-2007 @ 11:02 AM by Astyanax
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Not good point. Though I must admit it looks sort of impressive when you say it in numbers.

What you are really saying is:

1. Energy liberated by triggering nuclear explosion > energy required to trigger said explosion.

That is correct. Also,

2. Energy liberated by striking match > energy required to strike match

3. Energy liberated by applying said match to pile of rags soaked in petrol > energy required to apply said match to pile of rags soaked in petrol

And for that matter,

4. Energy liberated by toppling nine green bottles off wall on which they were standing > energy required to topple nine green bottle off wall in question.

The additional energy was always there. It was stored in chemical bonds inside the combustible material (Cases 2 and 3), as gravitational potential energy in the bottles (Case 4) and, of course, as nuclear energy released by fission in Case 1.

In none of these cases is the law of conservation of energy violated.

Now tell me, what sort of energy was Mr. Meyer supposed to be liberating with his process? Gravitational? Kinetic? Chemical? Nuclear? Thermonuclear? Karmic?


reply posted on 3-12-2007 @ 07:07 AM by dionysius9
Before we knew nuclear energy existed, people assumed the sun BURNED. Therefore it could not be more than 10,000 years old.


This information was used for a brief period as evidence that mankind was less than 10,000 years old, and that evolution couldn't be how living things came to be, because the sun and earth did not exist together for enough time for evolution to take place.


Once nuclear energy was discovered, the age of the sun was then put at a number of around 4.5 billion years, which is 450,000 times older.


Is nuclear energy the end of the line? Who knows? Just because you got your PhD in physics in 2007 doesn't mean that you know everything we will know in 300 years.


Think of how fast our knowledge has been expanding during the last 100 years! New information and theories come to light so fast that the basis of science is hardly on a foundation anymore as much as a flying carpet.


Every question we answer in science gives rise to two more questions. How can we assume that we exist, in terms of knowledge, at the high end of a number line when the point we occupy is arbitrary and the line goes on forever in both directions?


Nuclear energy is not the last thing we will discover. There ARE other forms, perhaps too subtle, exotic, or mathematical for us to understand at this point in time. But it doesn't mean they aren't there.


I believe that within a glass of water exists an amount of energy massive enough to take care of all mankind's energy needs. The only problem is that today we are not clever enough to devise a machine that taps into it.


Or perhaps we are too stubborn to try... ?




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