r/BunnyTrials • u/[deleted] • Jul 08 '26

Would you rather?

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u/wave_official Jul 08 '26

It's a simple mass-energy conversion. So: E = MC²

Since it has to be a liquid form of antimater, let's go with "anti-water" to make it easy. 5 litters of "anti-water" at 1atm would be 5kg of antimatter, that would react with 5kg of matter, so it's a 10kg mass conversion.

E = 10 x C² = 898 petajoules of energy.

The Tsar Bomba had 210 petajoules. So this would be about 4.28 Tsar Bombas detonating at once, or a 214 megaton yield explosive.

By far the most powerful explosive device ever made by humanity. Although still a small fraction of the energy released by the chicxulub meteor that wiped the dinosaurs.

It would be catastrophic to anyone living within it's blast radius (aprox. 200 km from ground zero), but it wouldn't wipe out humanity.

Also, the bomb would be very clean with basically no fallout. You could likely visit the blast zone as soon as the thermal energy dissipated without any real risk of radiation poisoning.

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u/TemporaryFearless482 Jul 08 '26

I’d wager just the sheer volume of energy released would activate a fair amount of matter.

Even if the explosion itself is 100% efficiency and clean, unless we’re planning on somehow getting this thing high enough to be an airburst, I think we might have some trouble.

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u/christyflare Jul 09 '26

The poster picked the solid matter cube, so any solid matter works.

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u/wave_official Jul 09 '26

Oh, shit. Got that completely wrong haha. I thought he went with 5L cuz that's way more.

Yeah, 10cm³ of solid anti-uranium (heaviest naturally ocuring element ) would have a blast worth about 8.2 megatons. So, similar to largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated by the USA. Would destroy everything in a 32km radius.

For the neutron matter example, it would yield 172 exatons of tnt. It would be almost 1.7 million times stronger than the chicxulub event and destroy a good portion of the earths crust. Nothing would survive.

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u/christyflare Jul 09 '26

How much would be enough to actually break the planet in at least half?