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Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms (mander.xyz)
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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Its not possible to do by any metric. And besides, a chain reaction is needed. A single atom turned into pure kinetic energy wouldn't be noticeable at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, and if I cut a mango, how many billions of atoms is that? So I'd recommend to cut the mango in increments of one angstrom to minimise the chances of a chain reaction happening.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    \0. The force that keeps the nucleus together is much stronger than the force needed to break the inter-atom bonfs. (Blanking on the names right now. Strong and weak forces?)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but what if the knife is really sharp?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    The knife edge can't be smaller than an atoms width, so still no.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You say that until someone pulls the classic prank of swapping all your mango atoms with uranium-235.

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