The Universe s04e06 Episode Script

10 Ways to Destroy the Earth

In the beginning was the darkness.
Suddenly, an explosion occurred, which launched infinity Extension of the existence of time, space and matter.
Every day, new discoveries, revealed the enigmatic umopomrachitelni and deadly the secrets of the place we call Universe.
The destruction of the Earth.
This idea has inspired endless prophecies and histories of science.
You can imagine variations.
The flash evaporation, extreme stretching The destruction of antimatter.
Leading experts astronomy and astrophysics develop your own scenario to destroy the Earth.
Buildings will have melted matter will collapse.
Everything is united by gravity collapse.
This is a way of presenting science end of our planet and the universe.
Get ready to see 10 ways to destroy the Earth.
Do not try this at home.
UNIVERSE Survival.
This is a game that our world play every day devastating against the universe.
The result is the same for and 4.
5 billion years ago.
The game continues.
There are many things that can kill us but none of them has failed.
Some threats, such as gamma ray outbreaks of distant galaxies are far from objective.
Others can not move our invisible shield.
The Earth's magnetic field protects us from from dangerous charged particles.
Stops the ozone layer ultraviolet rays.
Although space does not managed to destroy the Earth some of the leading scholars have their own ideas.
For example, Dr.
Bruce Betts, the expert on the dangers of asteroids and other space debris.
My favorite way The destruction of the Earth is exactly in my field.
Collision with a huge object.
And so our timer accident begins.
? 10 Impacts from space Things break and that each could happen to Earth.
Betts, but he knows that the break Earth is not so easy.
Unpleasant confrontations causing damage But can not destroy the whole Earth, many animals, including zatriyat as has happened before and 70% of the species.
The problem is that this asteroid was not sufficiently serious to destroy the entire planet.
The asteroid was slightly higher than Mount Everest, that sounds impressive until It is not 300 km.
If we had a world scale even be able to feel Himalaya with your fingers.
We think big, but compared with the size of the Earth are like anthills.
We need something with dimensions at least half of the land much more and one tenth of its weight, to hit 48 km / sec.
To try to Mars.
You can change the orbit of Mars and the fatal collision.
While the two planets are closest, Its severity increases Under the collision.
While the Red Planet fills the sky massive tsunami flooded islands and coastal cities.
So the situation be much worse.
The party will be affected, have evaporated instantly.
Front side impact was beaten by powerful earthquakes.
The heat of impact each forest becomes a hell.
Mountain cast shot falling back into space apocalyptic in the shower destruction.
An hour after the collision, all living on the surface is dead.
But Earth is so big, 6 billion billions of tons of metal and stones that even a direct collision Mars will cause damage but leave the Earth intact.
The real destruction of the Earth requires a collision with something bigger, as our sister, Venus.
We're talking about the same diameter and 80% by weight of the Earth.
If Venus collide with Earth, we have run.
Both planets will shake and fly large debris.
Planetary waste will join in the amalgam between Earth and Venus larger of the two and lifeless as the moon.
This is a good way to destroy the Earth, But how can it happen? Before 4.
5 billion years, the body of the size of Mars collided with Earth.
Young Earth Cast still cooling when a small planet is a blow.
This is like a ball falling on the sand particles around and messy.
The site was part of the crust and created a debris disk around the Earth.
Soon after, the remains of these formed the Moon.
Planetary collisions are possible but Venus is while Mars is at least 56 million miles.
What will bring them back and forth? Planets usually have very stable orbits.
But what happens if something pressed a planet in its orbit? Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun has highly elliptical orbit.
Is subjected to different gravitational perturbations from another planet.
Similar changes in the orbit of mercury can affect in the orbits of the other planets and in particular Mars can take on the road, someone There will be an orbit of the Earth Cross.
According to some, the opportunity as a collision to happen each It is not something to worry about.
But not impossible.
Imagine that Stadium has a fly to fly in other door to each other.
What are the possibilities for flight, if you hit once with your hand? There is zero Because it is still possible, but they are extremely small.
Planetary collision is one of the How to Destroy Earth but this is only the beginning.
If the process is slower and longer can change the orbit of the Earth to Earth away from the sun.
This is a way for? 9 The destruction of the Earth.
? 9 The big freeze Under normal circumstances, our elliptical orbit takes us further 4.
8 million miles Sun in July than in January.
Cause it's hot in July in the northern hemisphere is then instinct is that to Sun If the Earth away from the Sun this would lead to sudden death.
If you're a little, shall ensure thick jackets and will be handled.
If adventure then it becomes uncomfortable.
About 320 million km from the sun light of one third of those present.
That would kill most crops.
If the soil is much the sun, Food Chain will be compromised.
If you get too far For example, the orbit of Neptune, most of our atmosphere freeze.
On nice days the temperature would be --170 degrees Celsius.
Nothing will survive ice surface.
The oceans will be like frozen cemeteries.
will remain liquid water due to heat of submarine volcanoes.
These sulfur hydroxide hydrothermal vents continue to maintain a tube worms and other exotic forms hemosintezirasht of life.
Permanent heat emitted by the nucleus can help humanity survive in underground cities.
The man is a very stable way.
I believe that if the earth moves under the orbit of ice is very likely that we can find a way to hide beneath the surface and use of geothermal energy processing of frozen for the extraction of liquids and convert water into oxygen and other gases needed.
Underground mining can support several million people.
Not very comfortable, but the planet and part of the population will survive.
But this is not the way to number 8 to destroy the Earth.
Closer to the Sun in .
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? 8 Major burns Imagine that each years is approaching The term "global warming" not even close to the situation.
The melting of polar ice caps is only the beginning.
Sea levels may increase by 60 meters but all that water becomes vapor.
If you move to Venus, which is one third of our distance from the Sun have the time the water begins to evaporate.
The atmosphere will be implemented carbon dioxide resulting in a strong greenhouse surface effect and very hot.
From Alaska to Australia average temperature reaches 480 degrees Celsius.
More complex shapes of life lost, and the planet itself is directed to Nuclear Heart of the Sun.
Astronomers and astrophysicists invented 10 ways to destroy the Earth.
After being defeated and frozen now assumed that the planet mortal journey A Sun ? 8 in a the destruction of the Earth Major burns.
Dead, empty and full greenhouse gas The Earth is only a few million kilometers from the star that once gave it life.
Everything will remain has blown a big ball get even more toward the sun.
When it got too close own lot would evaporate.
Steam is assigned the solar wind.
Suppose that in the short would like a comet.
Finally, only the core remains.
Ball with a diameter of 6 900 km composed of iron, nickel and radioactive metals, heated as the sun's surface but 2 million times less.
This ball will be accident in the sun.
Sun will not feel absolutely nothing.
To change our so the orbit We may need Sun--a fugitive seriously distort throughout the solar system.
Chance of a star This is very small, but we can not be sure that in the next several million years not going to happen.
Violation of the Earth's orbit leads to a slow death while rotation stop lead to a stormy end.
This is a way for? 7 The destruction of the Earth.
Rotation--stop If you stop the rotation of the Earth objects that are spinning with it continue to rotate.
For example, you might blasnati on a wall with a very high speed.
The Earth rotates with approximately 1 600 km / h.
If you stop suddenly, the atmosphere, continue to rotate.
This will result in wind speed At the same time, the accumulated enormous amount of friction create a great heat.
The cliffs and buildings melt.
Soon, Earth will become a dead world, in orbit around the sun.
Cycle "day -- night" depend on the time that the orbits of the Earth around the sun.
Day and night will be long half a year.
One side will receive solar heat for 6 months while others lose heat.
It will have two seasons -- bad and worse.
The temperature difference between half hot and cold create a large strong winds and currents.
From Pole to Pole area between the two halves be executed with massive cyclone.
As the Earth rotates around the sun Rampage belt is across the globe.
Any place on Earth a cyclone season every 6 months.
It will be a big mess.
Mess, which in fact is difficult to obtain.
This can happen if something hit Earth in a particular way to stop its rotation Such a collision would so much energy, to stop the rotation is our greatest concern.
No matter how terrible stop the rotation of the Earth our planet, at least, remain in the solar system.
In space there are dangerous forces The Earth can be completely eliminated.
For example, an excess density remains of the star collapses, called black hole.
Black Hole is the most dangerous in the area called "event horizon.
" This is the limit of what no return.
If something happens, you can not never return.
Black hole curves space--time around itself and matter, which is sought.
The typical stellar black hole is 5--10 times heavier than the sun.
The presence of some Earth--like Certainly kicks death for the planet.
Let me be more interesting.
What if the Earth between two black holes? When two black holes and fun will be doubled.
This is? 6 Torn between two black holes One of the black holes latest appeal beside her and stretched.
Also attract stronger center of the planet the other side.
In front of a black hole will do the same.
Black Holes break the crust, increase in tectonic plates and semi--solid deformed below the lithosphere.
Molten magma produces devastating volcanic eruptions and black holes do not allow Most of the ash and dust to fall to the surface.
The rise of the oceans worryingly large waves.
While parts of the world falling into black holes matter and gases are become a deadly power.
The matter falling into black hole emits X--rays who will kill very fast all life on Earth.
Meanwhile, Earth is stretched to the limit.
They will stretch the Earth in both directions.
It will be like in the movies where members of the tie someone for two horses and destroy it.
It is the planet will be extended connect the two black holes or be broken in half? ? 6 in the top ten How to Destroy Earth is very brutal on the planet.
We drew between the two black holes.
This is a measure of gravitational forces The Earth has a role in the string, which can not withstand the jet.
We will have case spagetifitsirane extreme.
Pulling the land will and spread through black holes in both directions until it broke into pieces.
These pieces will also be changed.
And get the parts will be broken.
After the last tracts of land are swallowed by black holes among them is empty space where once they had reached the planet.
Reassuring to know the chances of this happening be reduced to zero.
Physicist and science -- author, Travis Taylor He has written several books about the real and imaginary space hazards and has another idea associated with a black hole.
If you would like to destroy Earth My favorite scene rise to a black hole the nucleus, which eat the Earth.
I would be someone spacecraft and seen from the side.
This is? 5 Absorbed into Only a stellar black hole do the job quickly, but other interesting possibilities.
What else can you think? Maybe the black hole is Earrings as big as me.
Black holes are so big Earth would weigh the same.
Take mini--black hole and run through the North Pole.
Suppose speed and angle are such falls in the center of the Earth.
I'll understand that something is wrong.
If somehow this black fall into the hole in the center of the earth here on the surface feel the gravity dual.
Suddenly, the ball falls much faster.
Suddenly, we begin to weigh.
Although life is torture mini black hole aspirated material.
The more you eat, more The Earth is nearing its end.
As matter of suction above will srutva.
There will be an extremely powerful earthquakes and cracks in the crust.
Will new volcanoes occur because magma flowing from elsewhere due to the influence of the black hole.
You can imagine interesting options.
After months of strengthen disaster end will come in less than an hour.
Earth will begin to collapse and also devoured by the black hole.
Perhaps the Himalaya the last place to live advance and is not in the event horizon and disappear forever.
Seen from space will look like internal fragmentation eggshell.
As we attach to the screw any point inside the shell and the junta.
Everything will remain the black hole.
The mass of the Earth be absorbed by it.
No one was able to detect black hole mass of Earth.
Regular black hole formed by the death of stars that are at least 10 times heavier than the sun.
But in the universe can exist million times lighter black holes.
One theory immediately after the Big Bang there was so much material with a density far may have million are Thumbnail (primary) black holes without dying stars.
We're not sure that such black hole exists, but it is possible to have them and to absorb the Earth.
Just would like in search of a black hole and to do experiments.
Is it possible create mini--black hole with Particle accelerator as "Large Hadron Walking in Europe? This makes us ask Justin L.
Salt Lake City.
Your question was: "I can super--accelerator to create a black hole? " Great question, Justin.
Many doctors want to know if the Large Hadron Collider create mini black hole.
It is possible, if choking matter much in a small volume to create a black hole.
But do not worry, these black hole evaporates quickly and will not swallow the earth.
The destructive force of a black hole in space comes from its gravity.
But the lack of gravity may is even more dangerous for the Earth.
This was intrigued Astronomer Alex Filipenko.
His studies of the dark energy and the expanding universe inspired his idea of our own end.
My favorite way to destroy Earth is through destruction of gravity.
This is? 4 Suspension of gravity Everything we do is balanced relationship with gravity.
What if gravity to end this relationship? Without gravity, which is rises, never falls.
Aircraft never not the land, trees will remain on the surface until it falls apart.
And it's only warm--up a calamity.
The Earth itself will start to disintegrate into pieces.
It seems impossible But if gravity can really stay? Incredibly, the answer is .
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"Possible.
" In the future, gravity could disappear.
Of the 10 forms The destruction of the Earth, one of the most amazing thing is? 4 -- the suspension of gravity.
Today, gravity is a the four basic forces with electromagnetism, strong nuclear interaction supports atomic nuclei, and the weak nuclear interaction, which is the source of radioactivity.
At the time of Big Bang instead of four basic forces may have been only two.
When the universe was age fraction of a second Strong interaction combined with etc.
Low power -- mixture of electromagnetism and strong and weak nuclear interactions.
United superpower may have created a superpower which caused almost instantaneous expansion of the universe called "inflation.
" The universe has become a major a very short time.
Small fraction of a second after the Big Bang Inflation was halted because the forces are divided.
The strong nuclear force is separated by low--power the creation of two varieties of This unified superpower.
Once this force only can be divided into two Could this happened to gravity? This possibility could be scary demonstrated with a simple coin.
The coin has two sides, but if the form of energy by rotating seems to combine the two sides.
We can not see any both sides separately.
Consequently, the currency loses energy and falls on heads or tails.
These are two different options none of which resembles the currency area formed during the tour.
Similarly, the severity one days can be divided two different derivatives.
Each of these new forces will have different characteristics of historical gravity.
Everything is in the hands of gravity collapse.
This means we are doomed.
Human bodies remain intact, because held by electromagnetic forces instead of gravity.
But everyone on Earth will fly in space and will be drowned while the land itself collapses, because there is nothing to sustain it.
Jupiter and other gas Giant is destroyed.
The sun whose gravity rotation of the planets will be blown to pieces.
The sun is a huge and a ball of hot gas accession own gravity.
What you will see how the star spread rapidly.
The sun and the galaxies to maintain their integrity, everything will fall apart.
Land is chaotically dispersed particles In a small corner of the universe.
That would be very surprising ending.
Of course, there is another way to dismantle the Earth -- by the explosion.
Is it easy? Of course not.
But it is possible.
You can create some antimatter bomb.
This is? 3 Unizhozhenie with antimatter This is the first choice Astrophysics Clifford Johnson.
The idea of antimatter has beauty.
This is a simple, terrifying beauty really dramatic internal explosion.
Antimatter is the same as the subject quite the contrary.
Matter and antimatter destroyed in a powerful explosion.
In practice, this expression is Einstein's equation E = mc2.
You can combine matter with antimatter and for clean energy.
Only 0.
5 kg of material may cause This is so much power of the hydrogen bomb.
The destruction of the Earth need much more.
By some estimates, we will need at least 100 trillion tons of antimatter.
You must fill million stages of this type with antimatter to detonate on contact with concerned to destroy the Earth.
If you really want to try, only 150 million km from us an antimatter factory.
When the sun's nuclear furnace earn enough electromagnetic energy is due to release in sunspots.
Large eruption could The contact with the substance of the elimination antimatter almost immediately but there are ways to be used.
We could not keep touch with different electrical and magnetic fields.
So we can keep the antimatter for an indefinite period of time.
It is only necessary to collect and antimatter Store about 100 billion sunspots.
Once you obtain the necessary have to transport to Earth and to exclude the electromagnetic field, to make contact with ordinary matter.
May somehow placed in the center of the Earth.
It will explode and tear everything to pieces.
While the explosion of antimatter be instantaneous, Its collection tens of millions of years.
Given the number of solar eruptions in a year going to require a lot of years, to gather enough antimatter for such a powerful bomb.
Physicists know that antimatter not only particle capable of destroying the planet.
? 2--way is associated with transformation.
Transformation of foreign matter These are big problems a small scale.
Smaller than the protons and neutrons in the strange world of quarks.
These particles with names like "Superior", "minor" and "bizarre.
" I will not delve to explain what are the quarks.
You can accept as podatomni sub--particles.
These are things to build other things.
According to some physicists, tie quarks up, down and strange would create "streyndzhlet -- particles, consisting "Strange matter.
" What makes it strange is to change its properties fitness everything it touches as ice, which fresh water around, only much more extreme.
These particles strange things in common.
For them, everything has to be rare.
Imagine all the earth and the earth itself become inorganic disaster.
And all this because streyndzhlet podatomniya.
Fortunately, the Earth, streyndzhleti not, But the powerful gravity of the bowels of neutron stars can be mixed higher down and strange quarks, the creation of strange matter.
About our understanding of sure if this is so.
Maybe in the next few years.
What if we find such strange matter in neutron stars somehow bring to Earth and run it as the top the Empire State Building? There can be nothing, or All that strange quarks can change state of matter here on Earth.
It started a chain reaction.
Interact Streyndzhletite with ordinary matter and the Earth is changing.
But what? The list of 10 ways to destroy the Earth, Number 2 is probably most mysterious of all.
Transformation of foreign matter If you want to make the planet in a lot of strange quarks, only to spread several particles.
After the earth will start to transform and become more bizarre even now.
Foreign matter, a set of streyndzhleti called quarks, place on Earth and amazing things happen.
The first thing you touch becomes foreign matter.
So what's next.
There will be some weird version of myself.
Even when it comes for the level of podatomno structure is clearly distinguishable.
We can distinguish protons and neutrons.
If this structure disappears lose matter how where we know it.
The unique orbit and the number of particles individual building elements now represent amorphous substance.
Everything becomes in a foreign matter of atomic nuclei, monuments and mountains.
All live died.
Once started, change will be very strong.
It will be something like a scanner pihtiesta a huge ball.
Everything that happens to a pulp.
You can do all The land in a strange business.
Primary black hole final gravity foreign matter and antimatter.
Whether in theoretical physics has a strange way to destroy the Earth? Yes.
In fact, astrophysics Ozel Ferry is ready for Bob to overwrite the Earth with tissue of reality itself.
My favorite way to destroy Earth is associated with a huge reincarnation in the universe.
This would lead us to another state.
This is the? 1 Collision between parallel worlds Based on another aspect science fiction and physicists taken seriously.
Existence of other universes.
Possible partners the Earth in other universes.
Accept the universe as two--dimensional sheets that exists here a movement in it as a movement in our three--dimensional space.
But there is another direction that is out of this list.
And there is another sheet representing another universe.
These universes would be identical or will have very little difference but it is very important to understand that the two should not be touched.
Imagine that our universe is a piece of paper like this.
Next Universe will be another leaf.
If two sheets collide, listen to the energy emitted.
Imagine a collision between two sheets of paper the size of the universe.
How much energy is alleviate this conflict? If somehow feasible contact with the parallel universe This may be the last nothing will.
This will not only destroy planets and stellar systems, galaxies galaxy clusters, will destroy everything.
That was the end of the universe.
It could be the end of everything is home to everything else? Once created our universe a Big Bang, in another Big Bang everything can start again.
You could create another universe.
Perhaps the most amazing the option to terminate the Earth is the only already occurred.
Maybe the Big Bang is the result collision between two universes.
It may happen again.
And if it happens, maybe There may be another land in another universe.
We have seen how the earth destroyed by a sudden blow intense cold and heat of combustion.
Its rotation was stopped, was transformed from a strange matter stretched and swallowed by black hole disassembled or exploded.
At least in theory.
In fact, the world will rotate more billions of years.
But the universe has so do not know and can not predict.
New Earth in a new universe This will be a very different place with different physical laws.
This means that we think
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