Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.
Jesus! That’s nearly as hot as McDonalds Hot Apple Pie filling!
They were worried the first test of a nuclear weapon would ignite the atmosphere and kill all life on earth.
Not really. It was brought up as a concern, number crunching occurred, and it was seen as incredibly unlikely, borderline impossible outcome. I guess talking about the possibility is interesting in-and-of itself, but there really wasn’t a concern.
Worried enough to think twice and crunch the numbers
“Maybe.” “What do you mean maybe?” “Probably not” “fire that shit up”
“Horgan: I wonder if you could tell me a little bit about the story of Teller’s suggestion that the atomic bomb might ignite the atmosphere around the Earth.
Bethe: It is such absolute nonsense [laughter], and the public has been interested in it… And possibly it would be good to kill it once more.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/cross-check/bethe-teller-trinity-and-the-end-of-earth/
That’s almost microwave pizza pocket hot.
That’s why it go boomy
How do they know this? How would you even measure temperature past a certain point
They measure the wavelength of “thermal” photons and then use e.g. Wien’s law to calculate the temperature that has caused their emission.
Edit: T = 10^8 K correspond to f = 10^18 Hz which is in the X-ray part of the spectrum.
“Scientists determine that nuclear explosions reach temperatures of approximately 100 million degrees Celsius through theoretical physics, computer modeling, and spectral analysis of diagnostic data.”
I really need to get AC
“YEAH?!”
That sounds like an approximation by doctor evil
One BILLION degrees! MUAHAHAHA
It’s true and very scary.
no imagine this: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-atom-bombs
It seems pretty obvious that the exhaust heat should be harnessed and recycled. Or at bare minimum radiated into space (or similar)
WTF?
