How would you go about destroying the Earth?

[Ramo]

I'm trying to remember back to my old college physics class and I recall that if you have a large cloud that is moving ever so slightly then once gravity collapses it down into solid bodies the small force vectors get added together and multiplied by the square of the distance between the two particles (some one who's taken physics in the last 8 years please double check this and tell us the real equation). In any event the slight motions of a very spread out body will become much faster motions in a very dense body and that is why the planets are spinning and rotating so quickly

Well, your premise is true, but your justification doesn't quite make sense. As a consequence of Newton's laws, the magnitude of the angular momentum of a body under a central force is constant. That means if the radius of a body's orbit decreases, it's angular velocity increases. So, when gravity collapses the cloud of gas into a planet, due to conservation angular momentum, the anguar velocity of the planet increases.

[Ramo]

is there a such thing as a anti neutron? I mean, a neutrons charge is neutral, is there an opposite to neutral?

An anti-particle has opposite values for all quantum numbers of a particle. Charge is only represtented by one quantum number.

[KrazyHorse]

Some of the stuff being don at Brookhaven right now has a submicroscopic chance of destroying the entire universe, and a significantly larger submicroscopic chance of creating a black hole which may do at least the Earth in.

[KrazyHorse]

All of you people who think that we have the capability to drop the Moon's orbit low enough for it to intersect the Earth's surface need a quick course in orbital mechanics.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm trying to remember back to my old college physics class and I recall that if you have a large cloud that is moving ever so slightly then once gravity collapses it down into solid bodies the small force vectors get added together and multiplied by the square of the distance between the two particles (some one who's taken physics in the last 8 years please double check this and tell us the real equation). In any event the slight motions of a very spread out body will become much faster motions in a very dense body and that is why the planets are spinning and rotating so quickly.

What you're describing is the conservation of angular momentum.

Given a central force (like gravity exerted by a non-moving spherical mass) the angular momentum of the system about the center of this mass is conserved (this is a direct result of F=ma)

Angular momentum of a point particle about the origin is l=rXp where r is the distance vector from the origin, p is the momentum vector of the particle and X is the vector cross-product.

The upshot is that for angular momentum to be conserved as a body contracts, the velocity of its surface must increase in direct proportion to the decrease of radius. Its angular velocity therefore increases as the square of the shrinkage.

[Ramo]

Too slow.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by Switch
I'd take the two angels who are banned from heaven, and due the whole Catholic walking under the arch thing, and thus obliterate all time and space (it makes sense after you watch Dogma)

I had thought of that too...! Where's Ben Affleck when you need him?

[Lancer]

Frogger, sucked into a black hole eh? That would be a bad day. On the flip side, at least it would be an American black hole.

[KrazyHorse]

Paid for by the US, created by Europeans and Asians.

[Lancer]

gawd, a UN black hole.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by Lancer
gawd, a UN black hole.

These day's a phenomenon like that is usually reffered to as the "Security Council"

[Dis]

by voting for liberals

[Jack_www]

Cause the Sun to super nova, not only would it destroy the earth completely it would destroy the entire solar system. But given current levels of tech that is way off in future. So I would use asteriods to colide with the earth untill starts to dirft towards the sun and let the Sun pull it in and get sucked into it.

[Lancer]

Cross the streams.

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by loinburger
I remember reading some book or another where some aliens or zombies or ninjas or robots or somebody like that took a hunk of neutronium (the degenerate matter that makes up neutron stars) and a hunk of anti-neutronium (the same stuff, only made out of anti-matter) and fired them at the Earth. The two hunks of (anti)matter orbited around each other a few times, and eventually met at the center of the Earth, annihilating each other and blowing apart the Earth. The alien zombie ninja robots won the day.

For the life of me I can't remember the name of that book, though.

Is it not Footfall ? Written by Jerry Pournelle and an other guy.