franciscoramon: (:v things i don't want to see)
Cisco Ramon ([personal profile] franciscoramon) wrote 2016-07-30 05:42 am (UTC)

kiiiiiiiinda but also kinda not?

so okay bear w the metaphor but atom bombs are like when you've got a big group of friends and two friends in it are dating but then they break up and all hell breaks loose. cuz what happens is there's a nucleus (which is your squad), made up of protons and neutrons (friends of person a and person b). explosion is their breakup, which then splits the squad into two smaller factions, with a whole lot of drama (i.e. energy) getting released along the way.

(but even then you don't just split one nucleus and ka-boom, you need like a WHOLE LOT OF THEM, enough to trigger a chain reaction.)

particle accelerators typically just crash one solitary electron with one solitary electron. the electrons are by themselves and not in a squad, plus an electron is like about 2000x smaller than a single proton or neutron, so it doesn't cause almost any drama at all.


[ That is... mostly accurate if simplified, and a bit silly, but it's the best way he knows how to explain it without getting technical. ]

but seriously if i ever go too nerd on you in a bad way just tell me and i'll stop bc i know i can get carried away

i love you, too


[ Still makes him smile, typing that. ]

okay yeah that's fair.

present for what?

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