• Question: How much force would you need to crush earth to its schwarzschild radius?

    Asked by WilliamK to Samuel, Reshma, raam, K-Jo, Alison on 14 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: K-Jo O'Flynn

      K-Jo O'Flynn answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      The force of a black hole put simply:D

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      Samuel Bancroft answered on 14 Nov 2018: last edited 14 Nov 2018 5:36 pm

      So after checking my maths for the schwarzschild radius… The Earth would need to be crushed down to have a radius of around 8 mm before it would become a black hole.

      ‘How much force’ would be the wrong way to describe what’s needed to crush the Earth… The question would rather be ‘how much energy’? I haven’t checked the maths on this, but take it from me that it would be a crazy stupid load of energy required! 😛

    • Photo: Reshma Vora

      Reshma Vora answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      A LOT! LOL

    • Photo: raam shanker

      raam shanker answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      Quite a lot! We’ll know once Samuel does his calcs! Sam, how’re you getting on? 😉

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