How much energy it takes to stop Earth [Random Knowledge #17]

Home Contact Projects Experiments Circuits Theory BLOG PIC Tutorials Time for Science RSS Terms of services Privacy policy

Home

Projects

Experiments

Circuits

Theory

BLOG

PIC Tutorials

Time for Science

Time for Science [daily updated]

How much energy it takes to stop Earth [Random Knowledge #17]
posted March 4 2013 12:48.41 by Giorgos Lazaridis

Suppose that you want to stop Earth from orbiting the Sun - You will definitely need a good break... It will require some 2.6478 x 10^33 joules or 6.3285 x 10^17 megatons of TNT to do so! To get an idea of the scale, the Hiroshima A-bomb released an energy equal to 16 kilo-tons of TNT. The biggest nuclear bomb ever recorded was the Tsar Bomba made by the Soviet Union, which released the energy of 50 Mega-Tons of TNT. So, it would take some 12,657 trillions Tsar Bombs to stop the Earth from orbiting the Sun...

Permalink:

Comments

No comment yet...

Be the first to comment on this page!