What happens if you split an atom?

I was thinking of doing this later tonight after masturbating furiously to furry porn. My question is; are there any risks involved? I don't want to destroy the universe or something silly like that, I am a true American and I love my family, and my hero brothers that fight the evils of the world.

gamma radiation is involved, hope you enjoy becoming the hulk, gl.

I want to be the Hulk.  Please exlpain the process.

I hear you can do it if you heat it to 30,000 degrees in your over

When you split an atom, you get two half atoms.

Seriously, you open a path to the realm of the gods, and gain their powers.  You get to lord over the local patch of the universe.

Splitting atoms is like dividing by zero. You JUST DON'T DO IT!!

Splitting the atom is a misnomer.  You're spiltting the nucleus.

Seriously?

The free binding energy is partially expelled (radiation) and partially turned into mass to create two new stable nuclei.

If you really mean split an atom?  You get quarks.  Cool stuff.  Being done right now in some big high-energy physics labs.  It's recreating the conditions of the very early universe.  What happens?  If you can describe it well, you can get a Nobel Prize.

>>7
If you really mean split a neutron?  You get quarks

Fixed.

>>7
Soo... can I do it in my kitchen, if so, how?  I have some supernatural powers that might be of use, such as omnipotence (I can have sex with every girl in the universe at the same time), does that help?

If you chop carrots really fast, you might just split an atom.  It has to be carrots, or beets.

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molecules -> atoms -> protons, neutrons, electrons -> quarks -> something smaller -> something smaller -> something smaller -> etc etc...

Big bang ages that we know of.
1st = 10^-100000 seconds
2nd = 10^=-100 seconds
3rd = 10 seconds
4th = 10^1000 seconds
5th = 10^1000000000000000 seconds
6th = 15 billion years

(you get the idea)


As time progresses from the start of the big bang, things cool down and things take longer to happen and things happen on a larger scale. So maybe there have been an infinite number of states of the universe that have occurred at a concurrently tinier and tinier, quicker and quicker, more energetic and more energetic scales to our own and maybe the conditions for sentient life and civilisations existed in the big bang before it was all seperated.

These civilisations of course existed for only the slightest fraction of time from our perspective, but because they were so energetic, many events took place in the time.

Maybe in the future when the universe is too cold for us to survive another civilisation will conceive that our civilisation could have existed in this universe even though a mega asteroid hits our planet once every 15 million years because so many events could take place in a few thousand years.

>>7
quarks re-bind into subatomic particles essentially instantaneously. cf. standard model. where is my nobel prize?

how sad it is that you plebeians don't even know which questions remain unanswered, and which were never questions at all.

You can split and fuse atoms in your living room, not just a significant amount of them.

For fusion, buy some supercapacitors, get some deuterium(doesn't have to be 100%). Now, create a mist of deuterium water, charche the supercapacitors up and create a bad ass electric arc of millions of degrees for a VERY short period of time in the mist. Congradulations, you have probably fused some deuterium, maybe even hydrogen atoms into Helium.

As for splitting atoms... you don't really have to do anything. Of all the atoms in your living room, a few are sure to split at any moment due to their half-life being what it is.

That is get some deuterium as in a mix of dihydrogen and dideuterium oxide :) The arc of electricity will tear hydrogen and deuterium apart and fuse some of them into helium.

I saw this in a movie once

>>11
electrons->quarks is not correct. Electrons are fermions. They are not quarks and are not made up of quarks.

when they split they just explode like an atomic bomb ..... the end

I AM A HIGH LEVEL CLERIC AND THIS UNDEAD THREAD DIES IN MY PRESENCE!

If you split an atom it'll release hot air.

200 MeV

>>19
I can picture a little atom flying around the room like a released balloon.

human bodies have so much radioactive C14 in them that everybody would have to register with the relevant authorities... that is especially true for trolling posters in this board...

oh and splitting (fission) of atoms is not going on around you all the time, because for that you would need slow neutrons for which you need a source, since free neutrons decay quickly. What goes on all the time is radioactive decay, which is a different thing. Also n. fission only works for very heavy nuclei: Uranium and larger...

Uranium... the name for the 92nd element of the periodic table... derived frum the name for the greek sky-god Your Anus ahh... sorry Uranus which is also the name for the 7th planet from the sun...

... this is your cue Sage!

>>1
What happens if you atomize a split?

:/

>>23
SUDDENLY, BANANA PARTICLES

Billions of them!

>>24
:/

Unless u got a bunch of uranium atoms, you won't blow up the world. You'll just have alot of energy released. Probably killing u. Have fun.