Yeah, but it's a dry heat.
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Jesus! That's nearly as hot as McDonalds Hot Apple Pie filling!
They were worried the first test of a nuclear weapon would ignite the atmosphere and kill all life on earth.
Not really. It was brought up as a concern, number crunching occurred, and it was seen as incredibly unlikely, borderline impossible outcome. I guess talking about the possibility is interesting in-and-of itself, but there really wasn't a concern.
"Maybe." "What do you mean maybe?" "Probably not" "fire that shit up"
Worried enough to think twice and crunch the numbers
“Horgan: I wonder if you could tell me a little bit about the story of Teller's suggestion that the atomic bomb might ignite the atmosphere around the Earth.
Bethe: It is such absolute nonsense [laughter], and the public has been interested in it… And possibly it would be good to kill it once more.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/cross-check/bethe-teller-trinity-and-the-end-of-earth/
That's almost microwave pizza pocket hot.
I really need to get AC
"YEAH?!"
That sounds like an approximation by doctor evil
One BILLION degrees! MUAHAHAHA
It's true and very scary.
How do they know this? How would you even measure temperature past a certain point
They measure the wavelength of "thermal" photons and then use e.g. Wien's law to calculate the temperature that has caused their emission.
Edit: T = 10^8 K correspond to f = 10^18 Hz which is in the X-ray part of the spectrum.
"Scientists determine that nuclear explosions reach temperatures of approximately 100 million degrees Celsius through theoretical physics, computer modeling, and spectral analysis of diagnostic data."
That’s why it go boomy
no imagine this: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-atom-bombs
It seems pretty obvious that the exhaust heat should be harnessed and recycled. Or at bare minimum radiated into space (or similar)
WTF?