What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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“Stand on the other side from where the physics is happening” is actually a good general rule for scientific equipment. Once you’ve built your apparatus to vaporize iron, you’ll want to stand back, since vaporizing a 1-meter cube of iron will take about 60 gigajoules of energy.
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High-quality diamonds are expensive, but it’s hard to get a handle on their exact price because the entire industry is a scam the gemstone market is complicated.
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