"14 and a half hours of pure hell." A normal work day then...

This explosion sounds like it would cause some serious lag.

the fact that that much energy only evaporates 11% of the oceans is even more mindblowing than the energy released

THIS is the bomb to fear... Except there are no signs that actually making this bomb is physically possible.

"How much explosives can I use?" "Only a spoonfull" *gets comically large spoon of neutronium*

bacteria at the bottom of the ocean: hmm getting a little warmer than usual. whatever

This is Star-Trek-level technology, so far beyond current technological capabilities and physical understanding, really nothing to worry about. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being containment of Neutronium in antigravity stasis fields, household fusion reactors are about at 0.

So this is a theoretical substance that we have no idea how to create or harvest. Even if we could make it, containing it would require basically magic sci-fi technology. Yeah...this isn't the bomb to worry about.

this bomb could even kill a cat, which has 9 lives, in one go.

_"Only 11 percent of the oceans would be evaporated."_ *Oh, so this is how we solve the rising sea level.*

"As yellow dye. Lots of people died" best pun ever😂

When I was 6-7 years old, I was introduced to some of these concepts. Distracted as I was, the education was cut short. I had no clue the reasoning behind the education was tied to a dooms day bomb.

“It could destroy the surface in one second Oh ok, that’s really bad “16 times over” Well then

"My damn paintings keep blowing up." "You using TNT Yellow?" "Yeah -- how'd you know?"

Now imagine if we managed to acquire some anti-neutronium

"You are the American Prometheus, Oppenheimer. You gave them the power to destroy themselves"

that explosion would drastically effect fishing season

Other people: "Merry Christmas!" Subject Zero: "What if we blew up the planet?"

I love how you ended with "alright folks, we're done here" because it reminded me of Cave Johnson from Portal 2, and because this is definitely something Cave Johnson would try to make

Alternatively, harnessing that energy would mean we could power humanity’s expansion into the stars.

"how dense is neutronium?" physics: yes

Aliens: “let’s go see what the humans are doing” “Where’d earth go?”

I can already imagine the world's militaries converging on whatever location is said to house a world-ending device... It would be one of the few moments where the entire planet has to cooperate with each other regardless of prior differences... All to either diffuse the thing, or launch it out of orbit and send it somewhere else so it won't go off on Earth...

That's why the depth of the sea, however grim and dangerous, could give us protection against this kind of threat.

Yeah, uh, Merry Christmas to you too.

“It could destroy the face of earth in 1 second” - wow “16 times over” -Well Shit “For the next 611 seconds” - (❍ᴥ❍ʋ) “Until it’s power is reduced by half” -Uhh what

"Explains in great detail math".... ending "literally destroys everything 16x over in 1 second".

"But can we use it against the Russians?" "Mr. President I don't think you understood what.." "Can. We. Use. It. Against. The. Russians?"

So essentially, anyone who is caught trying to make that kind of bomb is immediately the enemy of every human being.

MAGNIFICENT. I had to watch this video twice to grasp it since I like figures that involve powers of tens.

You should do one on antimatter because it's a very interesting version of matter which can also be used for bombs with just a single gram able to destroy a whole city on it's own.

"14 and a half hours of pure hell." Sounds like school.

"Only 11 percent of the oceans would be evaporated." Oh, so nothing to worry about then.

My question is how you could manouvre a bomb that weighs 5.5 x 10^12 kg to its target. Even in space it would take 2.75 x 10^12 J just to accelerate it from stationary to 1 m/s

That's basically one method of enacting an exterminatus. I haven't heard of any weapon in the 40k universe yet that would function in the same manner. Does such a weapon exist in that universe?

This sounds too op, they should nerf it in the next update for sure.

"Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!"

That end just blew my mind.

now that oppenheimer is released this feels more scarier than ever

The narrator tells us how destructive it is and then just “alright folks we’re done here 😂😂😂

“Ferb, i know what we’re gonna do today!”

The thing people keep forgetting to mention when talking about the Tzar Bomba is that the one that was tested was only HALF the actual power of the project. The original plan was a 100Mt bomb, but it was halved out of fear of the resulting fallout making the majority of Russia and neighboring countries in the south uninhabitable. The fact that this was already within our grasp is much scarier to me than us, someday, in the far-far future, **maybe** finding a way to make a neutronium exterminatus bomb. Good thing only half of it already erased any interest in actually using nuclear weapons for generations to come

Consider that Neutronium is made of cells of nested p+ and p- separated by 3 neutrons on each side. Neutrons are immune to both Positrons and Electrons, and the nesting takes place in events that often result in black holes and neutron stars by squeezing normal matter in upon itself causing Positrons and Electrons to merge into Gamma Rays. As these Gamma Rays leave, the remaining neutrons are attracted further by the p+ and p- internally consistent and neutral. Also, consider that Chicxulub is a crater on the rim of a much greater crater that resulted in the Gulf of Mexico.

I finally know what I’m going to make for my science fair project!

"what is the density of neutronium?" Yes. The density is yes.

97 percent of the Tsar Bombas energy came from Fusion making it one of the cleanest H bomb explosions . There was relatively little fallout because of the altitude it exploded and the nature of its energy . I doubt the explosion had any effect regarding radiation exposure at that distance.

Im watching this at 23:30 rn. I should be asleep already but im watching this. Im not even listening or looking at it correctly im js observing it w my eyes, not remembering a thing he said

A neutron walks into a bar and asks "how much for a beer?" The bartender says, "for you? no charge."

7:20 Man that bomb assembly animation was satisfying, Almost as satisfying as cracking a planet with it.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

On problem at the start of the video. The stability question of neutrons - they are only stable (as experimentally determined) when inside a nucleus that is itself stable. Gravity is only postulated to make them stable on bulk. This is extremely unlikely as gravity is approx 37 - 38 order of magnitudes weaker than the electromagnetic force and the idea of neutron stability does not take in account what is happening at the subatomic level. Unless we actually can experimentally show this stability under gravity, it is only unsubstantiated conjecture that fails the [smell test]. It is an assumption that delights those who promulgate the idea of stability but is actually quite untestable and in so many ways unreasonable. We see a distinct flight of unsubstantiated fancy by many theoretical scientists today who have failed to step back from their unsubstantiated conjectures (that they [prove] by their mathematics). Mathematics is an essential tool in developing appropriate models of the nature of our universe. But, it must always be remembered that mathematics is ONLY the map and is NOT the territory and NO map is anything more than a quite faulty approximation to the reality that they are trying to map.

Him: “… the tsar bomba, code named Ivan.” Me: “That’s terrible…”

I felt it in my soul when the speaker said, "sixteen. times. over."

Okay, so the Tzar Bomba, a Soviet hydrogen bomb, was originally meant to be this massive 100-megaton explosion. But they dialed it down to 58 megatons by skipping a part called the uranium-238 fusion tamper. If they'd kept it in, the bomb would have been way more powerful, but it could have wrecked the plane carrying it and caused way more fallout. So, they played it safe and toned it down to avoid extra problems.

03:45 this is what I love to see when talking about subject like this. a nice visual compared with data

Well, what a painless way to go, I always knew when Mr. Spock said that hull of solid neutronium was impenetrable that it be dangerous. But I think that when we are able to handle antimatter in a more stable way that would be a bigger bomb.

Just remember that the Tsar bomb was detonated with only half of its potential.

"Could finish off 1.35B human's if stacked ontop of each other - thankfully that's never gonna happen" China: *sweats*

Cool, I thought the author was goind to tell about antimatter, but he surprised me! Nice clip, thanks! It's good that people do not know how to keep such numbers of neutrons together. But in future "galactic" wars this would be a new word in the weapons of the mass destruction.

this prank boutta be insane

"Only 11 percent of the oceans would be evaporated." Me and my homies after diving session: "Tf everybody go?"

NASA: “Do you see that planet over there?” Navy: “Yes.” NASA: “I don’t want to.”

I am no professional, but what exactly would keep the neutron star from staying together on one piece? Wouldn't it shatter on billions of parts after the initial explosion and make the whole Szenario a lot less worse

The thing is, you would have to process an insane amount of matter to condense this many neutrons. In the order of like the size of mount Everest

Ocean: 11% evaporated Human: 1000% evaporated Earth: left the group

when killing everything once isn't enough, you feel the need to do it 16 times over

I bet there's a way to calculate when a star is going to collapse in on itself and form a neutron star and then put enough element 115 into the center that's shielded from radiation until the point that the star collapses and rips the shielding off of it and then as the star collapses the 115 goes active or something and rips the star apart as a massive bomb that's worm holed through space and time to a particular destination in the universe.

Who would have thought that Wonka's ever lasting gob stopper could be so deadly

Video: "First used as yellow dye. Lots of people died." My mind: "Lots of people dyed."

Just imagine the neutron activation that would happen! A good portion of those neutrons would go into carbon 14 and other radioactive isotopes that would make the earth screamingly radioactive.

"900 Pyramids of Giza on a spoon" damn! this was heavy for me

A teaspoon of neutron star can do this distruction and its difficult to imagine how much distruction it would do if more quantity of nuetronium added it blows my mind .

„Only“ 11% of the oceans water evaporated. 😅 So, everything is cool. ;)

“But is there a way to be even more destructive?” Something every human being has asked themselves at least once.

The teaspoonful of neutronium would have a mass of 2 x 10^12 kg. Converting to standard units, that would be 334 Giza pyramids. In one teaspoon. You're gonna need a bigger boat.

there is an error at around 9:14. you calculated that the energy released from the neutrons in 1s equals the energy of 2.5 million zar bombs which each destroyed an area of 3800 km^2. from there you simply multiplied 3800 with 2.5 million and compared it to the earth surface. for this calculation to be valid you need to assume a linear relationship between energy released and area destroyed. this however is not the case. there are multiple other factors at work, one major one being that the explosion affects all 3 dimensions including vertical ones, and not just the 2 dimensions of the area. so part of the energy goes into the ground and the air/atmosphere. so if you detonate a bomb with twice the energy, you wont get twice the area destroyed. in return you also get a deeper penetration into the ground. if you really wanted to destroy this area with this amount of energy, you would need to split up your neutron bomb into 2.5 million smaller bombs and distribute them equally around the earth area. this also explains why the energy is only sufficient to evaporate 11% of the ocean despite allegedly destroying the whole area of the earth 16 times. by distributing the energy into small bombs over the whole area (which would be required to destroy this large of an area) you lack the penetration power and only the top layers of the oceans evaporate. this is by the way the idea behind cluster munitions. by splitting your explosives into smaller parts and distribute them in the area you can destroy a larger area with the same amount of explosives. the disadvantage being that your penetration power drops so you cant use cluster munitions effectivly against armoured targets.

The fact that this can release enough energy to devastate the world's surface multiple times within the first second, but the whole explosion only evaporates 10% of the water is testament to the amazing thermodynamic properties of water and its ability to absorb energy.

This is probably what Level 3 Kardeshev civilisations would call "a dick move"

Did someone discuss the logistical issues though? That's really heavy stuff!

In hindsight , it would not be difficult at all to rig up a framework that would ensure the hemispheres could be moved closer in a controlled manner, behind shielding, and prevented from ever coming into actual contact. Why didn't the obviously highly trained people in the project think about it ?

This is why hydration is important guys. If the human body is about 60% water, you too can survive since it would only evaporate about 10% of water.

Tardigrade: Laughs microscopically.

Yoooo i love science and i appreciate your work

Fascinating video. I guess it's not the bomb we need to worry about really because we'd all be gone in a flash 😅

Bethesda trying to make another fallout game: write that down write that down!

"14.5 hours of pure hell, which is also scientifically equivalent to 1 comedy set performed by Amy Schumer."

First time in my life, i can physically feel my brain buffering, trying to process this...

That's 11 minutes of my life on Earth that I will never be able to get back.

Universe Sandbox players: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

imagine creating the strongest bomb to ever be tested and naming it "Ivan"

imagine you just painted your, let's say, a chair in yellow. The paint dried, you sit down and BOOOM.

Way to leave me all excited but unsatisfied … guess I’ll have to wait for a meteor

“Only eleven percent of the oceans have been evaporated.” ... That is kinda not a good thing, even on its own.

*Pulls out a comically large tea spoon*

The closing feels like Cave Johnson from Aperture Science of Portal 2😂 Cave Johnson would have delved into it if he sniff the possibility of it

Next: How to make your own Neutronium with standard household cleaning products!

The real question is, is the simulation powerful enough to render such an explosion?

Bro this makes Exterminatus from Warhammer 40k look like a gentle touch.

SZS: this bomb could delete an entire planet! SZS at the end of the video: anyway

5:22 "But is there a way to be more destructive?" The question humanity has been asking since the dawn of time