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Author Topic: The Insane Physics Thread.  (Read 16749 times)

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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #135 on: February 26, 2015, 11:42:37 pm »

Ptw

You just year-necro'd a thread to ptw.
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Can I still ask random science questions?
Might as well make the necro worth it, so go ahead.
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #136 on: February 26, 2015, 11:51:59 pm »

If an exact copy of the moon appeared in orbit around the earth along with the regular moon, and then the copy vanished after 10 minutes, would it have any lasting effects on earth's orbit?
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« Reply #137 on: February 27, 2015, 07:59:23 am »

What would happen if a black hole the weight of the moon ((approximately the size of a grain of sand)) were to impact the earth?
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« Reply #138 on: February 27, 2015, 05:48:32 pm »

What would happen if a black hole the weight of the moon ((approximately the size of a grain of sand)) were to impact the earth?
If an exact copy of the moon appeared in orbit around the earth along with the regular moon, and then the copy vanished after 10 minutes, would it have any lasting effects on earth's orbit?
What do you think would happen?
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #139 on: February 27, 2015, 05:49:40 pm »

E: Probably begin to rip the earth apart as it grew, slowly sucking in chunks of matter and heating everything up as it got sucked it and setting the world ablaze while it took in the small amount of matter it's even horizon would be able to take in

I dunno
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #140 on: February 27, 2015, 05:52:33 pm »

No, but if you try and answer your own question it'll be easier to ascertain your level of knowledge and tailor the answer accordingly.
This is no mean-spirited crap, just a honest attempt at meaningful communication.

Besides, it's always much more satisfying and productive if you manage to reach the answer yourself rather than being spoonfed.
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #141 on: February 27, 2015, 06:15:37 pm »

E: Probably begin to rip the earth apart as it grew, slowly sucking in chunks of matter and heating everything up as it got sucked it and setting the world ablaze while it took in the small amount of matter it's even horizon would be able to take in

I dunno
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #142 on: February 27, 2015, 07:03:55 pm »

What about a black hole the weight of the moon impacting the moon? What then?

EDIT:
Then again, simplified, it would be more: What would happen if a black hole of equal mass to a solid mass were to collide with said solid mass?
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« Reply #143 on: March 01, 2015, 12:14:44 pm »

When I saw the thread title, I thought it said "The Internet Psychics Thread".

What about a black hole the weight of the moon impacting the moon? What then?

EDIT:
Then again, simplified, it would be more: What would happen if a black hole of equal mass to a solid mass were to collide with said solid mass?

I don't know a whole lot about physics, especially compared to what I've seen in this thread(hence my diappointment that it's not a psychics thread), but I imagine that an impact of an object of same mass but smaller size(and thus, more dense) compared to the object it hits, the object hit is gonna have a nice hole through it.
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« Reply #144 on: March 01, 2015, 12:26:41 pm »

I think it would depend on the velocity. This is all based on intuition.

At high speeds, the black hole would punch through the object, leaving a narrow hole on one side and a wide hole on the other following a sort of bell curve as the black hole's event horizon increases by sucking in the other mass's matter, assuming the black hole doesn't disintegrate due to the sudden mass gain (which I think is a thing that can happen, but I'm not sure). After it exited, the other mass would probably be drawn into a sort of tail behind it.

If it went slowly, it would just consume the other mass. I think.
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« Reply #145 on: March 01, 2015, 06:06:13 pm »

Wouldn't it depend much on the black hole size: too small and it'd evaporate almost isntantly, too big and it's eat the whole other mass.
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« Reply #146 on: March 01, 2015, 11:11:48 pm »

At interplanetary speeds (roughly 11 km/s [Earth escape velocity] to 72 km/s [orbiting at Earth speed in the opposite direction]), it would easily liquify (and then devour) the planet. At intersteller speeds, it might be able to pass all the way through.

Fake-edit: putting the numbers into the kinetic energy formula, an 11 km/s impact would yield 8.891 x 1032 joules, enough to liberate every particle of the planet from the gravity of every other particle (although it's only four times the required amount). That's without adding the mass of the black hole, though, so it may not quite be enough.
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #147 on: March 01, 2015, 11:48:30 pm »

Wouldn't it depend much on the black hole size: too small and it'd evaporate almost instantly, too big and it's eat the whole other mass.
For some reason, I'm looking at this like throwing an ice cube at a water balloon (then again, remove the balloon part, and just throwing the ice at the ball of water). Same substance, but still the same mass, but at different densities.

I recently watched a video of boiling nitrogen and solid nitrogen; so I had this in mind.
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« Reply #148 on: March 02, 2015, 01:27:02 am »

PTW.
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Re: The Insane Physics Thread.
« Reply #149 on: March 02, 2015, 05:42:09 am »

I think it would depend on the velocity. This is all based on intuition.

At high speeds, the black hole would punch through the object, leaving a narrow hole on one side and a wide hole on the other following a sort of bell curve as the black hole's event horizon increases by sucking in the other mass's matter, assuming the black hole doesn't disintegrate due to the sudden mass gain (which I think is a thing that can happen, but I'm not sure). After it exited, the other mass would probably be drawn into a sort of tail behind it.

If it went slowly, it would just consume the other mass. I think.
Actually, it wouldn't. One fun thing about black holes is that they suck so much, that they can't suck everything at once, as the matter sucked in starts to radiate violently. This puts an upper limit on how fast can a black hole grow.

Most likely the Moon will explode.
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