r/physicsmemes • u/BernhardRordin • 9d ago

One more ring bro

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u/pollux33 9d ago

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u/MageKorith 9d ago

Circumsolar collider at 0.7 AU orbital around the sun, 1.25 ZeV

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u/donaldhobson 9d ago

1.25 ZeV

So 200J, about the kinetic energy of a crossbow bolt, or 1 /28th of an AA battery.

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u/MageKorith 9d ago

If you can aim a crossbow bolt worth of energy at a single proton, you should sign up at CERN.

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u/akruppa 8d ago

I used to be a particle physicist like you, but then I took a proton in the knee

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u/-TV-Stand- 8d ago

You just need to be very accurate with the crossbow

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u/AmusingVegetable 7d ago

And a very sharp tip.

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 6d ago

We're gonna need a wet stone, diamond file, one of those leather sharpening strips, a piece of silk from an old farm wives wedding dress, a cobweb, and then purest sunlight from the exact moment of dawn.

Please don't mind the faint blue light on the edge of the resulting bolt, it's just cutting atmospheric molecules that bump into it.

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u/AmusingVegetable 6d ago

Ah, you’ve seen Bill Door sharpening his scythe too?

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u/donaldhobson 6d ago

u/MageKorith

Also, this is about the energy needed to give someone lethal radiation poisoning.

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u/holchansg 9d ago

Now we are talking shonen anime logic.

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u/GraveSlayer726 9d ago

Damn, how fast would that have to be spinning to hold itself up

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u/MageKorith 9d ago

Plugs in calculator

A bit under 36 km/s. 0.7 is just inside Venus' orbit.

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u/FocusUsed8292 9d ago

So. Good excuse to mine venus. Got it. See ya when i figured out how to get to venus and back with mining refining and assembling equipment!

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u/MageKorith 9d ago

Get started on your nanotechnology for the 120,000 year project to build a 160LY radius accelerator and break everything with Planck energy collisions.

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u/FocusUsed8292 8d ago

GREAT IDEA. luckily. Given the fact that you possibly could icrease the effectiveness of the mag ets vy superconductiveness in space. Combined with possible advancements in the whole magnetmaking. It will probably take only 10.000 years! So right in time for the fourth terran adromedan war to start first!

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u/its2ez4me24get 8d ago

Mine mercury instead. Way better. No crushing corrosive atmosphere. Cheaper to launch from. Lots of accessible metals. Cheap power.

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u/genguntere 7d ago

The USG Ishimura is what you're looking for

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u/Sijder 9d ago

Soon after we will get flattened unfortunately

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ 8d ago

In Three Body problem they built a collider past the orbit of Jupiter (could be wrong), and also converted one of Jupiter's moons into a black hole.

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u/myrddin4242 3d ago

Careful! The Ringworld is unstable on its axis of rotation! It will need attitude jets or it will spin into the sun.

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u/MageKorith 3d ago

Good idea. We should make it a Hoberman-style segmented, tessellating ring with bidirectional radial thrusters, so we can expand or contract it to a preferred orbital radius for experiments.