If it was glass it would have a weak point, since glass isn't uniform throughout. It is actually impossible to have glass equal every where, since even at the atomic level its different throughout. |
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if you had a big bomb that is realy strong but also equal, by equal i mean there is nowere with more explosion, it is equal strength all around in a sphere. and around it you have a perfect glass sphere, all the glass is very thin and weak but it is equaly thin and weak everywere, and it is all an equal distance from the bomb. and finaly it is a vacume in there. |
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If it was glass it would have a weak point, since glass isn't uniform throughout. It is actually impossible to have glass equal every where, since even at the atomic level its different throughout. |
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The glass would instantly get vaporized, meaning it turns into a gas. The explosion wouldn't move the gas, since there's no medium to propagate the shockwave, but the gas takes up a lot more space than the glass did, so it would still move around quite a bit. If the glass is very thin, then the movements won't be that crazy. |
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Last edited by Marvo; 03-26-2012 at 02:10 PM.
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Marvo, whut? |
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The atoms them self wouldn't be blown apart, just the connections between each atom would be broken. So yea, it would basically become a gas and it would do it every where at the same time. |
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Why is this in Philosophy...? |
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It is stated in the OP that the sphere has no contents, it's a vacuum. Without a medium, there won't be anything to propagate the shockwave from the bomb. Obviously the bomb itself is made of something, but it wouldn't hit the glass sphere. The sphere would get instantly vaporized by the heat flash from the bomb. The resulting gas might interact with the matter the bomb was made of (which is also now in gas form), though this effect is hard to describe, unless all the matter from the bomb moves outwards perfectly uniformly and evenly distributed. If that is the case, it would just push the gas out, I would think. |
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Last edited by Marvo; 03-27-2012 at 01:27 AM.
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A simple explanation of shockwaves, from the worst source ever, Wikipedia. |
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Last edited by melanieb; 03-27-2012 at 02:36 AM.
Yup. I would think the material from the bomb is negligible, because it would probably be a relatively small amount. It would affect what's left of the sphere I suppose. |
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I suppose it depend on the bomb size, and it's power. |
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In the original situation it sounded like he said it was in a vacuum so that there was nothing in the way to cause the explosion to hit the glass in a nonuniform manner. So the purpose was to ensure everything was equal, so assuming the bomb was powerful enough to reach the glass seems like a reasonable assumption, especially given that he specifically said it was a powerful bomb. |
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I'm gathering that the bomb is supposed to be even more powerful than our current strongest thermonuclear bombs. If so, then the thermal radiation should be enough to vaporize the glass, I would think, although it depends very much on how far away the glass is. If the glass isn't vaporized, it might still get heated so much that it expands, but since it happens in a perfectly uniform manner, I imagine it would just expand outwards, with no destructive effects. |
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I don't think it needs to be that powerful. Just like a pond of c4 inside a small glass orb. |
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There is no such thing as a perfect glass sphere. |
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Pretty much this. As said before though, if the sphere were made out of a uniform substance then, depending on the size of the bomb and the substance used for the sphere, the sphere would most likely be vaporized and, due to the rapid expansion of molecules, you would get a large release of energy. Again, depending on the make-up of the sphere, the gas may combust and that would just be more energy released and it wouldn't be very complex. If it's a non-flammable substance (in a gaseous state) then the gas may even be sucked into the center of the sphere due to the previously present vacuum though I don't think it would be of a great enough force to cause any major change other than location. Either way this has too many variables to be argued. |
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