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Aphex_Twin
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If you have 1 kg of matter, what is the energy equivalent of it in say joules?
How much of the matter (heavy hidrogen?) that goes into a fusion reaction is transformed to energy?
And to the point...
Last year there was this discussion about what would happened if the Galileo orbiter would crash into Jupiter. More precisely, there were some (I don't know if actual physicists) that hinted that the uranium present on board of the craft (from the reactor powering it) would explode with enough power to trigger a fusion reaction within the Jupiter lower atmosphere.
Now, theoretically speaking, is it possible for an explosion within Jupiter (or what should Jupiter be like) to create a powerful enough pressure shock front, to trigger the fusion of the hydrogen atoms in it's path, and if it's possible to create a chain reaction this way...
How much of the matter (heavy hidrogen?) that goes into a fusion reaction is transformed to energy?
And to the point...
Last year there was this discussion about what would happened if the Galileo orbiter would crash into Jupiter. More precisely, there were some (I don't know if actual physicists) that hinted that the uranium present on board of the craft (from the reactor powering it) would explode with enough power to trigger a fusion reaction within the Jupiter lower atmosphere.
Now, theoretically speaking, is it possible for an explosion within Jupiter (or what should Jupiter be like) to create a powerful enough pressure shock front, to trigger the fusion of the hydrogen atoms in it's path, and if it's possible to create a chain reaction this way...