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Blimey. So I'd probably not even notice someone had teleported it here in the first place as I blinked out of existence :) Ok, on that note... what would it ex
by _Understated_ 7y ago
Blimey. So I'd probably not even notice someone had teleported it here in the first place as I blinked out of existence :)
Ok, on that note... what would it expand as? I mean, would it be a physical substance, like particles of something like a gas or a plasma?
I assume it'd be quite hot (putting it mildly!)
- posterboy 7y agoIt would be sugar, obviously. A solar system sized Cotton Candy Cloud. Hey, I didn't start this sweet analogy.
- jerf 7y agoIt will cool into conventional matter eventually, but it would pass through a lot of exotic phases in between. I'm not sure we can even really answer that question, but here's something to give you an idea of what I mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon_plasma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon_plasma I'm not sure it would necessarily pass through that, but it would at least make a decent pass at it in those first few nanoseconds. If kmm's guesstimate of 5e26 joules is accurate, we're well beyond "extinguishing multicellular life" and in the realm of eliminating Earth entirely, which requires a minimum of 5.97e24 joules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_binding_energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_binding_energy 1% efficiency of transfer to the Earth is probably attainable.