Is anyone here really good at math?

[BrollySupersj]

This is something that has always interested me.

The Marvel Comics hero, Sentry aka Robert Reynolds, said to have the power of "a million exploding suns".

I'd love to love know how much power that is. Is anyone here willing to take on that task?

I've used this as a basis to go off, it's an article about the largest known super nova: The Incomprehensible Power of a Supernova | RealClearScience

So take (2.2+/-0.2) x 1045 Ergs per second and x by 1000000, how much energy is that?

 

[Immortalfire]

No.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

A lot...?

 

[Dr.]

The main reason why supernovae are such prodigious energy producers is that they’re created from giant stars. (Indeed, they have to be giants; smaller stars like the Sun can’t explode.) So all that mass means a lot of fuel - some of which is converted to energy in the supernova explosion.

But smaller mass means less energy (see E=mc^2). And by the time you get down to human size, the energy potential - in cosmic terms - isn’t so great.

Now… we could hypothesize a matter-antimatter explosion; and that would yield way more energy (pound for pound) than the fusion explosion that powers a supernova. But even this highly efficient energy source (100% compared to fusion’s 10%) is limited by mass. To be sure, a human sized lump of antimatter could do nasty damage upon detonation. The internet says that 200 lbs. of it would produce about 3900 megatons of destructive force. This is much bigger than the biggest H-bomb. But it’s much, much, much smaller than the smallest supernova.

Bottom line: Mr. Robert Reynolds couldn’t possibly contain “the energy of a million exploding suns.”

But what about fantasy and the “willing suspension of disbelief”? Valid point. But then, don’t be applying scientific questions to the fantasy; you might shatter the “willing suspension.”

 

[Dark Raven]

I sing the body electric
I celebrate the me and to come
I toast to my own reunion
When I become one with the sun
And I'll look back on Venus
I'll look back on Mars
And I'll burn with the fire
Of ten million stars
And in time and in time
We will all be stars

 

[Flash525]

Not as powerful as God is said to be. Slightly under that level somewhere I guess.

 

[terry78]

The main reason why supernovae are such prodigious energy producers is that they’re created from giant stars. (Indeed, they have to be giants; smaller stars like the Sun can’t explode.) So all that mass means a lot of fuel - some of which is converted to energy in the supernova explosion.

But smaller mass means less energy (see E=mc^2). And by the time you get down to human size, the energy potential - in cosmic terms - isn’t so great.

Now… we could hypothesize a matter-antimatter explosion; and that would yield way more energy (pound for pound) than the fusion explosion that powers a supernova. But even this highly efficient energy source (100% compared to fusion’s 10%) is limited by mass. To be sure, a human sized lump of antimatter could do nasty damage upon detonation. The internet says that 200 lbs. of it would produce about 3900 megatons of destructive force. This is much bigger than the biggest H-bomb. But it’s much, much, much smaller than the smallest supernova.

Bottom line: Mr. Robert Reynolds couldn’t possibly contain “the energy of a million exploding suns.”

But what about fantasy and the “willing suspension of disbelief”? Valid point. But then, don’t be applying scientific questions to the fantasy; you might shatter the “willing suspension.”

You are like every cartoon character that makes the others say ,"in English."

 

[BrollySupersj]

The main reason why supernovae are such prodigious energy producers is that they’re created from giant stars. (Indeed, they have to be giants; smaller stars like the Sun can’t explode.) So all that mass means a lot of fuel - some of which is converted to energy in the supernova explosion.

But smaller mass means less energy (see E=mc^2). And by the time you get down to human size, the energy potential - in cosmic terms - isn’t so great.

Now… we could hypothesize a matter-antimatter explosion; and that would yield way more energy (pound for pound) than the fusion explosion that powers a supernova. But even this highly efficient energy source (100% compared to fusion’s 10%) is limited by mass. To be sure, a human sized lump of antimatter could do nasty damage upon detonation. The internet says that 200 lbs. of it would produce about 3900 megatons of destructive force. This is much bigger than the biggest H-bomb. But it’s much, much, much smaller than the smallest supernova.

Bottom line: Mr. Robert Reynolds couldn’t possibly contain “the energy of a million exploding suns.”

But what about fantasy and the “willing suspension of disbelief”? Valid point. But then, don’t be applying scientific questions to the fantasy; you might shatter the “willing suspension.”

Ooook.

But...can we still x it by a million just for fun?

 

[C. Lee]

I think several members here are pretty good at meth.....at math I'm not so sure.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

But what about fantasy and the “willing suspension of disbelief”? Valid point. But then, don’t be applying scientific questions to the fantasy; you might shatter the “willing suspension.”

Didn't Jules Vern challenge this idea with his science fiction stories?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Something like 1 exponent 270 Watts, give or take.
Don't quote me on this.