In terms of advanced scfi weaponry, relativistic bombardment is where the real scary stuff is, without FTL sensor you'd have barely any warning and equally devastating results.
I love SZS' videos, they're always a nice mixture of Aperture Labs ideas, actual science, evil overlord thoughts, hyperbole and plenty of irony. Very entertaining, but also very informative! You shouldn't consider his content "science communicator" stuff and judge them by that, but rather great hypothetical ideas and "food for thought".
A lot of system zero’s videos are really sci-fi, the premise is grounded in physics but the rest is mostly theoretical and hand waved away. But if you’re looking for cool sci-fi weapons, system zero has some great ideas
I've always been interested in nuclear energy, radiation, and other related topics. You've really sparked that interest and Im considering saving up to go two school too leearn more and possibly turn it into a career. You are also very entertaining and I love your videos. Hope you reach 100k soon!
Yeah the concept is basically a nonstarter as antimatter is easier to produce and capture and because its actually a full atom you can use magnetic fields rather than gravity to hold it. Gravity manipulation is basically guaranteed to be impossible from Einstein's equations. Einstein showed that gravity isn't actually a force, its just the bending of time. Its why time slows down when you approach an onject of mass. If you could manipulate one you would do so for both.
You should react to SuperSus, he's a Ukrainian dude who litteraly swam in the unfinished Chernobyl reactor 5 pool, there are english subtitles. That dude is crazy
The whole group is crazy they went dicing in the chernobyl reactor pool multiple times and one time he had a glass fishbowl on his head other times he tried it with a gasmask which obviously does not work underwater😂
Subject Zero is by far and away the most under rated channel on RUclips. His quality of content is simply extraordinary. Yet the man has effectively no subs for his effort. I feel the YT platform really let him down. Such a shame really. 300k subs is nothing compared to his effort.
Great video. I hate video titles that tell you to worry about stuff. It's like 'you should fuck your mental health and live in fear' especially over something so unfeasible
The biggest problem is that 1 tsp. of this material is Sooooooooooooo dense, the momentum gained between the top of our atmosphere and the crust, would have the material traveling fast enough to punch a tunnel through the Earth. This material is too dense for the earth to support it and it would not stop at the core. It would plow right out of the other side and that's saying it doesn't go into fusion/fission boom when it 1st hits the crust. That would vaporize the Earth and everything on it.
0:50 - The Tsar Bomb which was used in the test had 57 Mt of power, not 50, and before that - they had a ~100 Mt variant that, presumably, used uranium casing or something of that sort, and same scientists knew this would be a *really bad idea*, and so they scrapped it down to 57 Mt.
I think the reality is as soon as you release a bunch of neutrons they're gonna start decaying and neutron activating everything nearby, giving off heat and splattering them all over the place, and meaning you run out of free neutrons really quickly. Probably within microseconds. This has the effect of dramatically increased power since a lot of neutrons can release energy by combining with things rather than decaying, but dramatically decreased overall yield, since most of those things will not release as much energy from being neutron activated as if the neutron had been left to decay. The resulting activated material would have the potential to become nuclear fallout as well. I think the reality is this thing is replaced by a detonation and a bunch of nuclear fallout in well under a millisecond.
Makes me wonder if you have watched Stargate Atlantis and their interesting scientist Rodney McKay, they did fast build a couple nuclear weapons in that series as well. The real reason is, you do share some similarity in terms of looks.
The energy you need to get neutron and to storage it in first place cost a lot more energy than the bomb release though if you civilization can do it, making antimatter bomb much be easier
It's much less than inverse square. Atmospheric attenuation is exponential with distance and horizon drop is 8 inches per mile squared. This is why comet and asteroid impacts don't directly ignite things more than like 1000 km away, pretty much regardless of the size of the impact. The fireball is below the horizon. Note however that they can cause reentering debris to heat the upper atmosphere until it can cook the surface as a radiant heater (there is a myth that they heat the entire atmosphere to this temperature. This is incorrect. Instead they convert the mesosphere and possibly upper stratosphere into an extremely efficient radiating plasma. If it's overcast, you're fine. If it's cloudless day or night, you're on fire).
I think the minimum stable mass for Neutron stars is thought to be like 0.19 solar masses and a diameter of 250 km (diameter decreases with mass for objects much heavier than giant planets).. Beyond that they probably undergo beta decay and turn back into some kind of highly exotic heavy isotope white dwarf.
It's also funny how they calculate with the half-life as if putting more neutrons together would not lower the exotic nuclei's half-life, while in reality it does it in a drastic manner. "Neutron: An isolated neutron undergoes beta decay with a mean lifetime of approximately 15 minutes (half-life of approximately 10 minutes), becoming a proton (the nucleus of hydrogen), an electron, and an antineutrino. Dineutron: The dineutron, containing two neutrons, is not a stable bound particle, but had been proposed as an extremely short-lived resonance state produced by nuclear reactions involving tritium. The resonance was unambiguously observed in 2012 in the decay of beryllium-16." - Source Wikipedia
Antimatter is something we can actually make and contain, albeit not yet in quantities that would make a useful weapon. An antimatter bomb isn't something we can currently make, but it doesn't need magic to work. Really though, nukes and redirecting big space rocks are much easier and cheaper options.
Hmmm I wonder if you could get neutrons in a flow, while super cooling them and converting them into a Bose-Einstein condensate.. now I have to work on some theoretical math.
Dr Ben Miles uploaded a video on nuclear reactors just about an hour ago, and some of the stuff he said doesnt sound all that correct, at least from what ive learned from you. Maybe you can do a video on his to see what he got right and wrong?
Interestingly, the device looks like how I'd imagine a laser ignited fusion weapon looking. Pick the right materials and you could enter the area in minutes.......
The big catch to these kinds of hypothetical weapons is that the containment device needs more energy than the final release. It's more dangerous than the neutronium and would likely be within it's own Schwarschild radius.
Tsar Bomba was detonated on 30-October-1961, it was ordered in July. It took a wee bit for Granny and her knitting needles to knit up that big assed core. Off to a grand start, swing and a miss! And Tsar Bomba was detonated at 50% yield, the natural uranium tamper was switched out to lower the yield enough for the aircraft dropping it to survive and lower the fallout, which was high enough for even Stalin to balk at. Well, there are islands of stability theorized. Although, TBH, most more resemble islands of metastability, much like Gilligan's Island with multiple Gilligans on it... ;) But yeah, it's really hard to find a seriously lonely neutron, as they do tend to fall in love quite quickly. As for neutronium, well, the only method known to create and contain the stuff is the core of a neutron star. So, one's going to have to grab a neutron star, lug it to the target, drop the target onto it and why bother with the Historic Hernia of grabbing a gram or even kilogram of the crap? Harry Potter's magical twig sounds more likely and it's beyond unlikely that his wife will allow anyone to play with Harry's twig. I'll not go into the resemblance between his mythical magical twig imploded device and a manifold for plastic tubing via compression connectors... Still, one must remember that which matters most. There is no spoon. Oddly, I'd not go there, comparing a child's Whipper Snapper to a MOAB, so dino destructor, nope, maybe Theia - proto-earth collision, given a whole massive moon came out of that mess. The Chicxulub impactor was estimated to be 10 km in diameter, again, swing and a miss, hitting zeros, appropriately. If I want to kill a planet and can just gravitationally toss things about, I could yank on the mantle of the star or even just toss the planet out of orbit and let it freeze - not that anyone would survive the acceleration. Now, I have a magic capsule full of neutronium, release gravitational confinement, neutrons are gonna come out a hellin' from repulsion, accelerating them just a wee bit, neutron activating all manner of things, releasing butt tons of energy as well, overall, bad hair day. No magically protracted slow decay, as if it stays together, it's confined and hence, stable. Zero Science lives up to their name. Probably why I never watched any of their videos for more than a few minutes, as zero science is coupled with zero facts.
I think in reality the bomb to worry about is whatever bomb is in the wrong place at the right time. A 100 gram detonation in the right place can do more damage than a 100 Megatonne detonation in the middle of nowhere.
Disclaimer! I haven't watched this yet. I'm looking for a place to comment on the fact that, even though it was destructive, didn't most of Tsar Bomba's energy get blown into space? So aside from the fact that it was inefficient delivery wise, wasn't it inefficient energy wise as well? So anything stronger seems like a waste of resources to me. I'm also leaving this comment in case it's wrong.
So basically if you hand wave away all the physics, this is the scariest that physics can define. Watch, I'll debunk his video by making an even more scary material. I'll call it uberunobtanium. We'll just ignore how we got our hands on it, how it exists, what form it takes, how it interacts with other mater, how it interacts with electromagnetic forces and how we're interacting with it, but if you detonated one milligram of it, it would release so much energy that you would destroy the whole universe six times over! 😲 Watch out folks, war mongering super powers are already theorizing on how to build a device that uses this. The annihilation of the universe is swift aproaching! Subscribe for more science content! 😂🤣😂
I don't think small pieces of Neutronium are stable under anything like reasonable temperatures or pressures. As evidence, consider that up to 159 Neutrons have been put into a single atom that undergoes beta decay. And that Hydrogen-7, while slightly more stable than Hydrogen 4, 5, or 6, still only lasts yoctoseconds.
Actually, asteroid redirection is actually easier than we thought the DART project nasa used on a asteroid was very effective now that really depends on what the material it's made from but it shows us that redirecting interstellar objects is easier than we thought but doesnt mean it still isnt easy
I liked the video. Slightly clickbaity title, but he didn't pretend this was a real thing that can be done. I felt like he made it pretty clear that this is an unrealistic concept reliant on sci-fi tech; but he wanted to explore what it would be like if it was possible. Here's a cool idea for someone's next sci-fi story with interplanetary warfare.
The next video about planetary level destruction is even more fun and he also made some amendments to this video! ruclips.net/video/oHShM4no1o4/видео.html
If you think the 'teaspoon of neutronium' bomb would be bad, consider the '1/2 teaspoon of neutronium + 1/2 teaspoon of anti neutronium' bomb -- I'm sure it'd be much worse!
@@ToxicGamer86454Well, in the context of making a hypothetical neutronium bomb, an antimatter bomb sounds almost realistic... (not feasible with current technology, but not outside what we can imagine with our understanding of the laws of physics)
@@ToxicGamer86454 My point was it is more likely than a neutronium bomb and is at least based on things we actually know for a fact. Obviously we cant make one.
Containing it is easy! Leave it where you found it, given we can gather more from the magnetic fields of either earth or jupiter than we'd ever manage to generate here on the surface. Penning and similar traps, huge PIA and inefficient, can't store much for very long - despite what Hollywood and some fiction authors would "inform" you. Neutronium, sure, first one has to tell the world how to confine the stuff, as we don't know how to magically twist space to generate a local gravity field of sufficient strength to hold it, let alone compress matter into neutronium.
Why even bother with this "might not even exist" stuff? Just use antimatter. I'm not saying it's easy or cheap, it's not. But we do know for sure that it exists and that we can make it if we have to. Plus, it's 100% efficient as is, so if you're wanting a superweapon, research a safe and cheap way to produce and store antimatter.
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who knew a fictional reactor could be a bomb lol
(from The Dark Matter Reactor Experience)
In terms of advanced scfi weaponry, relativistic bombardment is where the real scary stuff is, without FTL sensor you'd have barely any warning and equally devastating results.
New Sam o Nella video
5:20 -- "So, not great, not terrible" ... Diatlov, what are you doing on YT?
Please wa'tch more subject zero. I love his channel. I'm sure you'll love his other videos on both nuclear and fusion!
I love SZS' videos, they're always a nice mixture of Aperture Labs ideas, actual science, evil overlord thoughts, hyperbole and plenty of irony. Very entertaining, but also very informative!
You shouldn't consider his content "science communicator" stuff and judge them by that, but rather great hypothetical ideas and "food for thought".
A lot of system zero’s videos are really sci-fi, the premise is grounded in physics but the rest is mostly theoretical and hand waved away.
But if you’re looking for cool sci-fi weapons, system zero has some great ideas
Tyler has confirmed the real threat to our planet...wizards. We're on to you, Gandalf.
wonderful video as always. keep up the good work brother we love the content.
I've always been interested in nuclear energy, radiation, and other related topics. You've really sparked that interest and Im considering saving up to go two school too leearn more and possibly turn it into a career. You are also very entertaining and I love your videos. Hope you reach 100k soon!
Yeah the concept is basically a nonstarter as antimatter is easier to produce and capture and because its actually a full atom you can use magnetic fields rather than gravity to hold it.
Gravity manipulation is basically guaranteed to be impossible from Einstein's equations. Einstein showed that gravity isn't actually a force, its just the bending of time. Its why time slows down when you approach an onject of mass. If you could manipulate one you would do so for both.
Awesome video!
You should react to SuperSus, he's a Ukrainian dude who litteraly swam in the unfinished Chernobyl reactor 5 pool, there are english subtitles. That dude is crazy
The whole group is crazy they went dicing in the chernobyl reactor pool multiple times and one time he had a glass fishbowl on his head other times he tried it with a gasmask which obviously does not work underwater😂
Subject Zero is by far and away the most under rated channel on RUclips. His quality of content is simply extraordinary. Yet the man has effectively no subs for his effort. I feel the YT platform really let him down. Such a shame really. 300k subs is nothing compared to his effort.
0:13 It also looks like the Quantum Science reactor that you did a video on a while ago.
Another thing is that he also talks about space travel and propulsion. Also, wat'ch those as well thx love your stuff, man
i made activated gold because somebody was coming and taking our gold by force.
Great video. I hate video titles that tell you to worry about stuff. It's like 'you should fuck your mental health and live in fear' especially over something so unfeasible
The biggest problem is that 1 tsp. of this material is Sooooooooooooo dense, the momentum gained between the top of our atmosphere and the crust, would have the material traveling fast enough to punch a tunnel through the Earth. This material is too dense for the earth to support it and it would not stop at the core. It would plow right out of the other side and that's saying it doesn't go into fusion/fission boom when it 1st hits the crust. That would vaporize the Earth and everything on it.
0:50 - The Tsar Bomb which was used in the test had 57 Mt of power, not 50, and before that - they had a ~100 Mt variant that, presumably, used uranium casing or something of that sort, and same scientists knew this would be a *really bad idea*, and so they scrapped it down to 57 Mt.
Did you really say, "Not great, not terrible"? lol
Please tell us more about your thoughts on Solaris.
Tyler, what do you think about the asteroid redirection attacks from The Expanse?
Hey mr T you should do an video on radking's video about ( most radioactive locations in fallout )
I think the reality is as soon as you release a bunch of neutrons they're gonna start decaying and neutron activating everything nearby, giving off heat and splattering them all over the place, and meaning you run out of free neutrons really quickly. Probably within microseconds. This has the effect of dramatically increased power since a lot of neutrons can release energy by combining with things rather than decaying, but dramatically decreased overall yield, since most of those things will not release as much energy from being neutron activated as if the neutron had been left to decay. The resulting activated material would have the potential to become nuclear fallout as well. I think the reality is this thing is replaced by a detonation and a bunch of nuclear fallout in well under a millisecond.
THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!
Makes me wonder if you have watched Stargate Atlantis and their interesting scientist Rodney McKay, they did fast build a couple nuclear weapons in that series as well.
The real reason is, you do share some similarity in terms of looks.
The energy you need to get neutron and to storage it in first place cost a lot more energy than the bomb release though if you civilization can do it, making antimatter bomb much be easier
A gram of neutrons a cup of photons and a dash of Cocoa powder would make a wild cup of hot chocolate. 😂
It's much less than inverse square. Atmospheric attenuation is exponential with distance and horizon drop is 8 inches per mile squared. This is why comet and asteroid impacts don't directly ignite things more than like 1000 km away, pretty much regardless of the size of the impact. The fireball is below the horizon. Note however that they can cause reentering debris to heat the upper atmosphere until it can cook the surface as a radiant heater (there is a myth that they heat the entire atmosphere to this temperature. This is incorrect. Instead they convert the mesosphere and possibly upper stratosphere into an extremely efficient radiating plasma. If it's overcast, you're fine. If it's cloudless day or night, you're on fire).
I think the minimum stable mass for Neutron stars is thought to be like 0.19 solar masses and a diameter of 250 km (diameter decreases with mass for objects much heavier than giant planets).. Beyond that they probably undergo beta decay and turn back into some kind of highly exotic heavy isotope white dwarf.
Jokes on you, i made one of these with duck tape and superglue the other day, Canada no longer exist
It's also funny how they calculate with the half-life as if putting more neutrons together would not lower the exotic nuclei's half-life, while in reality it does it in a drastic manner.
"Neutron: An isolated neutron undergoes beta decay with a mean lifetime of approximately 15 minutes (half-life of approximately 10 minutes), becoming a proton (the nucleus of hydrogen), an electron, and an antineutrino.
Dineutron: The dineutron, containing two neutrons, is not a stable bound particle, but had been proposed as an extremely short-lived resonance state produced by nuclear reactions involving tritium. The resonance was unambiguously observed in 2012 in the decay of beryllium-16." - Source Wikipedia
11:09 and how do you get something that huge and heavy four kliques above the planet?
Antimatter is something we can actually make and contain, albeit not yet in quantities that would make a useful weapon. An antimatter bomb isn't something we can currently make, but it doesn't need magic to work.
Really though, nukes and redirecting big space rocks are much easier and cheaper options.
Hmmm I wonder if you could get neutrons in a flow, while super cooling them and converting them into a Bose-Einstein condensate.. now I have to work on some theoretical math.
Dr Ben Miles uploaded a video on nuclear reactors just about an hour ago, and some of the stuff he said doesnt sound all that correct, at least from what ive learned from you. Maybe you can do a video on his to see what he got right and wrong?
Interestingly, the device looks like how I'd imagine a laser ignited fusion weapon looking. Pick the right materials and you could enter the area in minutes.......
The big catch to these kinds of hypothetical weapons is that the containment device needs more energy than the final release. It's more dangerous than the neutronium and would likely be within it's own Schwarschild radius.
OK but hear me out: slingshot with ammo made of a teaspoon of singularity from the core of a super massive black hole...
Don't forget, that nuclear bombs were once theoretical and little boy used all the Uranium in the world at that point.
Question: if neutrons decay in like 10 minutes, why don't they do the same inside a nucleus
Tsar Bomba was detonated on 30-October-1961, it was ordered in July. It took a wee bit for Granny and her knitting needles to knit up that big assed core.
Off to a grand start, swing and a miss!
And Tsar Bomba was detonated at 50% yield, the natural uranium tamper was switched out to lower the yield enough for the aircraft dropping it to survive and lower the fallout, which was high enough for even Stalin to balk at.
Well, there are islands of stability theorized. Although, TBH, most more resemble islands of metastability, much like Gilligan's Island with multiple Gilligans on it... ;)
But yeah, it's really hard to find a seriously lonely neutron, as they do tend to fall in love quite quickly.
As for neutronium, well, the only method known to create and contain the stuff is the core of a neutron star. So, one's going to have to grab a neutron star, lug it to the target, drop the target onto it and why bother with the Historic Hernia of grabbing a gram or even kilogram of the crap?
Harry Potter's magical twig sounds more likely and it's beyond unlikely that his wife will allow anyone to play with Harry's twig.
I'll not go into the resemblance between his mythical magical twig imploded device and a manifold for plastic tubing via compression connectors...
Still, one must remember that which matters most. There is no spoon.
Oddly, I'd not go there, comparing a child's Whipper Snapper to a MOAB, so dino destructor, nope, maybe Theia - proto-earth collision, given a whole massive moon came out of that mess.
The Chicxulub impactor was estimated to be 10 km in diameter, again, swing and a miss, hitting zeros, appropriately.
If I want to kill a planet and can just gravitationally toss things about, I could yank on the mantle of the star or even just toss the planet out of orbit and let it freeze - not that anyone would survive the acceleration.
Now, I have a magic capsule full of neutronium, release gravitational confinement, neutrons are gonna come out a hellin' from repulsion, accelerating them just a wee bit, neutron activating all manner of things, releasing butt tons of energy as well, overall, bad hair day. No magically protracted slow decay, as if it stays together, it's confined and hence, stable.
Zero Science lives up to their name. Probably why I never watched any of their videos for more than a few minutes, as zero science is coupled with zero facts.
the idea of just throwing a hook onto a neutron star and towing it to the solar system is hilarious to me
@@fusionwing4208indeed! One's supposed to use a lasso.
You sound like a fun person/s
I think in reality the bomb to worry about is whatever bomb is in the wrong place at the right time. A 100 gram detonation in the right place can do more damage than a 100 Megatonne detonation in the middle of nowhere.
Disclaimer!
I haven't watched this yet. I'm looking for a place to comment on the fact that, even though it was destructive, didn't most of Tsar Bomba's energy get blown into space? So aside from the fact that it was inefficient delivery wise, wasn't it inefficient energy wise as well? So anything stronger seems like a waste of resources to me.
I'm also leaving this comment in case it's wrong.
aliens throwing asteroids at earth, one of the first video games
So basically if you hand wave away all the physics, this is the scariest that physics can define. Watch, I'll debunk his video by making an even more scary material. I'll call it uberunobtanium. We'll just ignore how we got our hands on it, how it exists, what form it takes, how it interacts with other mater, how it interacts with electromagnetic forces and how we're interacting with it, but if you detonated one milligram of it, it would release so much energy that you would destroy the whole universe six times over! 😲 Watch out folks, war mongering super powers are already theorizing on how to build a device that uses this. The annihilation of the universe is swift aproaching! Subscribe for more science content! 😂🤣😂
There is no spoon.
"Nuclear weapons? Nah, just drop a bigger rock"
suppose in the end we just return to where we started, using rocks as weapons... just, on a whole new scale
I don't think small pieces of Neutronium are stable under anything like reasonable temperatures or pressures. As evidence, consider that up to 159 Neutrons have been put into a single atom that undergoes beta decay. And that Hydrogen-7, while slightly more stable than Hydrogen 4, 5, or 6, still only lasts yoctoseconds.
Actually, asteroid redirection is actually easier than we thought the DART project nasa used on a asteroid was very effective now that really depends on what the material it's made from but it shows us that redirecting interstellar objects is easier than we thought but doesnt mean it still isnt easy
please react to 3 body problem
Would love to see something on the matter and anti-matter pure annihilation
I liked the video. Slightly clickbaity title, but he didn't pretend this was a real thing that can be done.
I felt like he made it pretty clear that this is an unrealistic concept reliant on sci-fi tech; but he wanted to explore what it would be like if it was possible.
Here's a cool idea for someone's next sci-fi story with interplanetary warfare.
Now let's try antimatter instead
Weird to think about that football sized neutron"ium" ball could be enough so that our planets starts orbiting around it😂
The next video about planetary level destruction is even more fun and he also made some amendments to this video!
ruclips.net/video/oHShM4no1o4/видео.html
If you think the 'teaspoon of neutronium' bomb would be bad, consider the '1/2 teaspoon of neutronium + 1/2 teaspoon of anti neutronium' bomb -- I'm sure it'd be much worse!
Any civilization that could make this could also send dozens of RKV's at a planet and glass the surface making it all a moot point
Oh no, you didn't just insult wizards?!
literally QSML 3
subject: zero science
Bro make a Video about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Chernobyl Series And what could happen if this happened in the real world.
Watch tah oter on to
Why not just make an antimatter bomb? Much more likely than this one though obviously would require too much energy and then containing it.
“Why not just make an antimatter bomb”
😂 Are you serious?
@@ToxicGamer86454Well, in the context of making a hypothetical neutronium bomb, an antimatter bomb sounds almost realistic...
(not feasible with current technology, but not outside what we can imagine with our understanding of the laws of physics)
@@ToxicGamer86454 My point was it is more likely than a neutronium bomb and is at least based on things we actually know for a fact. Obviously we cant make one.
Containing it is easy! Leave it where you found it, given we can gather more from the magnetic fields of either earth or jupiter than we'd ever manage to generate here on the surface.
Penning and similar traps, huge PIA and inefficient, can't store much for very long - despite what Hollywood and some fiction authors would "inform" you.
Neutronium, sure, first one has to tell the world how to confine the stuff, as we don't know how to magically twist space to generate a local gravity field of sufficient strength to hold it, let alone compress matter into neutronium.
@@Unchained_Alice
Both are 100% not likely.
So what IS The 1/2 Life of this Guys neutron induced Russian Accent?!
Oh dear It gets on the nerves.
Why even bother with this "might not even exist" stuff? Just use antimatter. I'm not saying it's easy or cheap, it's not. But we do know for sure that it exists and that we can make it if we have to. Plus, it's 100% efficient as is, so if you're wanting a superweapon, research a safe and cheap way to produce and store antimatter.
Cool
What are the mathematical theories that explain why some elements are radioactive and others are not.