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NNadir

(38,089 posts) Fri Apr 3, 2026, 06:30 PM 10 hrs ago

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How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima

Richard Feynman as an old man explains:

(The best comment in the comments section is the top comment:

esterday I accidentally dropped a box full of paperclips and I nearly cr*pped myself. Fortunately the strong nuclear force stayed intact and the milky way didn't explode.

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One of the interesting things in the talk is the statement subtly made that the law of conservation of matter does not actually hold for chemical reactions

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How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima (Original Post) NNadir 10 hrs ago OP

How much energy did it take to make this video? hunter 7 hrs ago #1

Shhhhh ... don't mention the Strong Force. Trmp will insist on renaming it the "Trmp Force". nt eppur_se_muova 7 hrs ago #2

So is this AI correct? dpibel 4 hrs ago #3

Thanks, NN. littlemissmartypants 2 hrs ago #4

hunter

(40,702 posts)

1. How much energy did it take to make this video?

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Fri Apr 3, 2026, 09:35 PM

7 hrs ago

What's that in grams?

I don't think Feynman himself would have suffered this foolishness.

eppur_se_muova

(41,967 posts)

2. Shhhhh ... don't mention the Strong Force. Trmp will insist on renaming it the "Trmp Force". nt

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Fri Apr 3, 2026, 10:13 PM

7 hrs ago

dpibel

(3,955 posts)

3. So is this AI correct?

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2026, 12:55 AM

4 hrs ago

Those of us lacking your credentials really can't tell.

Not that I am terribly interested in spending 45 minutes listening to an AI chimera.

littlemissmartypants

(33,746 posts)

4. Thanks, NN.

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2026, 02:32 AM

2 hrs ago

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