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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ok if it is theoretically possible to cut atoms by using metal knives then why didn't ever a fission happen? I mean if you combine all knife cutting in the whole world since knives exist, the probability should be pretty high.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Well, it probably happened an infinite amount of times already. But the resulting cucumber-detonation just triggers a new Big Bang. We’re on the whatever-millionth reset now. Should end any day now. STOP CUTTING CUCUMBERS, SHEEPLE!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hmm this made me wonder why something like this wouldn't melt the rock and then sink into the crust and then into the planet. Probably not hot enough.
And that made me think if we could build something like a big pellet of fissile material, encase it in tungsten or something so that it is hot enough to do so but remains stable, and then let it sink into the earth. Maybe that could be tracked? Then we could learn something about how it moves and where it ends up. But probably can't be tracked since this isn't star trek 🖖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Well fission of uranium isn't hard. I want you to see to fission a C atom! XD