Sunday, June 23, 2013

Quantum Wallop

A guy at the video linked here describes what would happen if Superman actually punched you with the full force of his most likely projected strength.

Short answer -- your constituent atoms would come apart and you would become quark-gluon plasma, a substance that hasn't existed since about the time of the Big Bang.

As the writer of the blog entry notes, this is the reason you don't tug on his cape.

(And after two and a half years, it's still fun to type "quark-gluon plasma.")

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