What will happen if 100,000 US chemists will declare a war on the 10.000 US Physicists? *Literally*?

Dreamer said in post #1 :

What will happen if 100,000 US chemists will declare a war on the 10.000 US Physicists? *Literally*?

 

Literally?

 

Bugger all probably.

 

King's College Cambridge is technically a bingo hall now.

whoever got the coffee machines first would win.

my bet would be with the chemists (but then again, I`m a little Biased).

since everything the Physics lads use are composed of chemicals the YT Bigs It UP for the Chemists! YAY!!!!! )

 

(and I totaly ignored the fact that it`s a pretty pointless question, aren`t I good! )

Let me demonstrate the answer graphically:

YT2095 said in post #4 :

my bet would be with the chemists (but then again, I`m a little Biased).

since everything the Physics lads use are composed of chemicals the YT Bigs It UP for the Chemists! YAY!!!!! )

 

(and I totaly ignored the fact that it`s a pretty pointless question, aren`t I good! )

 

If we look at it that way, the chemists wouldn't do too well without any physical laws. They'd all float off into space as an expanding cloud of elementary particles.

The Physicists make themselves a nice implosion nuke, and Chemists bring along a truckload of VX.

 

It just comes down to who can throw the furthest

LuTze said in post #7 :

The Physicists make themselves a nice implosion nuke, and Chemists bring along a truckload of VX.

 

It just comes down to who can throw the furthest

 

Who cares about throwing? One rail gun should suffice. You can power it with a nuclear reactor, while the chemists will still be using coal.

"If we look at it that way, the chemists wouldn't do too well without any physical laws. They'd all float off into space as an expanding cloud of elementary particles. "

 

I agree totaly, as the 2 go hand in hand, BUT,,, I did state from the outset that I was somewhat Biased

 

YT2095 pays the Cheerleaders, Go to it Girls!

 

Go Chemists!

Go Chemists!

Go Chemists!

RA RA RA

I'm sure they'd be able to manage some sort of solid rocket fuel...

Lutze, I`m with ya 100% here PETN has a DV of over 9 kms/sec

like to see a rail gun reach those velocities!

LuTze said in post #10 :

I'm sure they'd be able to manage some sort of solid rocket fuel...

 

It wouldn't be very efficient, because they'd only be able to develop better kinds of fuel, rather than better kinds of engine.

They'd only develop better fuels if they survived the first round, which is assuming the rail gun didn't score a bullseye on their engine while they were trying to make it start.

MrL_JaKiri said in post #12 :

It wouldn't be very efficient, because they'd only be able to develop better kinds of fuel, rather than better kinds of engine.

It'd do the job though - and do it while you're still building you're giant rail gun, commisioning nuclear reactors, getting permits, dealing with protestors and so on

YT2095 said in post #11 :

Lutze, I`m with ya 100% here PETN has a DV of over 9 kms/sec

like to see a rail gun reach those velocities!

 

Rail gun slugs can (in theoretical weapons designs) reach nearly 300,000km/s duder.

LuTze said in post #14 :

It'd do the job though - and do it while you're still building you're giant rail gun, commisioning nuclear reactors, getting permits, dealing with protestors and so on

 

Up until then there's always good old fashioned nuclear deterrent.

MrL_JaKiri said in post #15 :

Rail gun slugs can (in theoretical weapons designs) reach nearly 300,000km/s duder.

That is gonna need some meaty power! Best commision another reactor...

LuTze said in post #17 :

That is gonna need some meaty power! Best commision another reactor...

 

Depends how large the slug is. I would work it out if I had some paper (Go go gadget SPEC REL!)

300,000 kms/sec (light speed in other words LOL, I don`t think so

I was working it out, but the envelope I was working on (my only source of paper) has run out of space.

http://home.insightbb.com/~jmengel4/rail/rail-intro.html

Hold on, why am I reading my texts on magnetic/electric fields, spec rel and the like for something so worthless?

blike said in post # :

http://home.insightbb.com/~jmengel4/rail/rail-intro.html

 

That tends to be a railgun similar to the one the cambridge engineering department have on open days; it deals with solid projectiles of magnetic elements, rather than clumps of charged particles.

 

It also isn't very long (6m for a particle accelerator is nothing).

 

etc etc etc.

tesla coils C&C stylee.

screw that, the last time I ran a rail gun, I wiped out 3 monitors (one blew a week and 2 days later). and the capacitor that ruptured took out the side of my favorite workbench (solid Oak, circa 1956).

so I`m non to pleased with doing that again!