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One of the lead researchers in KM3NeT mentioned that the particle was emitting 2 horse power in light during detector transit. A typical body builder expends ab
by lnauta 2y ago
One of the lead researchers in KM3NeT mentioned that the particle was emitting 2 horse power in light during detector transit. A typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing, so its 2 body builders in a single particle.
- A_D_E_P_T 2y ago> typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing Close, but ackshually... Bodybuilders just oil up and pose in beauty pageants. 1 horsepower is basically one 250-pound bench press in one second. (550 foot pounds of work; the aforementioned bench press assumes a 2.2-foot stroke length.) Most bodybuilders and serious weight lifters can do that, but they can't keep it up for long.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoIt must have been a very short amount of time. 2 HP is 1,500 watts, probably more light than all lightbulbs in my house combined.
- idlewords 2y ago1500 watts is about what an electric kettle uses.
- mr_toad 2y agoAmerican kettles. Kettles in hard core countries push 2300 to 2400 watts ;-)
- idlewords 2y agoSlow-boiled water gives superior flavor!
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoKeeps the midichlorians from jumping out.
- moi2388 2y agoI always cook my water sous-vide
- wiredfool 2y agoMeh, Lidl sells 3200w kettles.
- Daneel_ 2y agoWhere are the three phase models?? Seriously though, a 15A kettle sounds great.
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y agoPhotonicinduction's 10-second kettle[1] managed about 10kW max (took around 5s to boil water) for a short time, 440V 23A. Then the resistance dropped, it went up to 16kW (426V 33A) and popped. 7-8kW (375V 19A to 400V 20A) seemed more sustainable. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLw1Rx_cAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLw1Rx_cAI
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y ago2500W on 240V, single phase AC, 16A, German 'Schuko'-plug is normal. Or was. Some EU-regulation limits that to 2000, or even 1500W only now, for new devices, or something. Don't care. Still have the old ones, and whatever the electrician wired as '120V 3-phase AC' for the full US-style range in the US.
- lnauta 2y agoThe muon traverses a few hundred meters of detection volume very close to the speed of light, so in the order of one microsecond.
- rq1 2y agoParticle on steroids.
- zozbot234 2y agoFun fact, a typical horse exerts about 1 horse power of usable work while performing. That's so weird, I'm sure almost no one would've been able to guess that - but it's true. (To be clear, that's sustained effort over time, not just momentary. Athletically trained humans can do about 1 HP of peak momentary effort, and around 0.3 HP if sustained over time.)
- loeg 2y agoThat's an all-day number. Peak HP/horse is somewhere in the 6-15 range.
- mikepurvis 2y agoAnd a horse can do quite a bit more in peak as well— 1 HP is definitely meant to be the long term continuous output of a typical horse under load, especially a consistent load such as turning a millstone.
- wiredfool 2y agoTrack cyclists (sprinters, world class) do 2KW+ peak for a few seconds at a time. That's potentially ~3HP. (and while doing so, average more than 70kph over a 200m distance)
- somat 2y agoThe funny thing is that a typical horse probably has closer to 2 or 3 horsepower and a big chonkin draft horse up to 4 or 5 times. James Watt just picked the smallest possible value of horse when defining the unit so he could sell more steam engines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxTKtlvaVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxTKtlvaVE (donut, How Much Horsepower is a Horse?)
- m3kw9 2y agoCan we harvest that energy?
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoThis particle spread this energy through a volume of seawater a few km deep in the Mediterranean. It's going to raise the temperature of that volume a few billionths of a degree, if that. So, no, we can't.
- the_arun 2y agoWhat if our existing solar panels are optimized to detect these? Then will it improve the quality of solar panels to capture more energy from sunlight as well? Sorry, I'm no expert in this - asking more of a curiosity.
- ars 2y agoIt's an enormous amount of energy packed into a single tiny particle. But it's still just a single tiny particle, so it's not a lot of total energy. It's like how you can lift a heavy weight for a second, but that's all you can do. You would need to be able to lift it for hours to be useful as a replacement for a crane. Same idea: Intensity vs total work.
- mr_toad 2y agoIf we had the ability to detect neutrinos in such a small volume as a solar panel they’d be immensely valuable for communication - we’d be able to beam signals directly through the Earth, or through deep water.
- calebio 2y agoFollowing that same line, if we had that ability, it would be useful for communicating to deep submarines like the U.S. used to do with Project Sanguine[0] and ELF waves :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine
- whyenot 2y agoSo, 2,000 milliSchwarzeneggers if we use SI units?
- gattr 2y agoYes, but please observe SI rules [1]: it's millischwarzeneggers. > This means that they should be typeset in the same character set as other common nouns (e.g. Latin alphabet in English, Cyrillic script in Russian, etc.), following the usual grammatical and orthographical rules of the context language. For example, in English and French, even when the unit is named after a person and its symbol begins with a capital letter, the unit name in running text should start with a lowercase letter (e.g., newton, hertz, pascal) and is capitalised only at the beginning of a sentence and in headings and publication titles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Unit_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...