KambahOne
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Been reading a bit on gravitational waves, word of caution, don't do it stoned. It's not the waves themselves that are mind blowing, it's what occurred to cause them = an event so powerful, it literally shakes the very fabric of our existence.
Try getting your head around this - we measured our first gravitational wave late in 2015 from the merger between two black holes. This collision generated 36 Septillion Yottowatts of power. A septillion is a number with 24 zeros - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/septillion. A Yottowatt is equivalent to 10 to the power of 24 watts of power - http://extraconversion.com/power/yottawatts.
So this merger generated 36,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts of power, which was just enough to blow my farking mind!
Try getting your head around this - we measured our first gravitational wave late in 2015 from the merger between two black holes. This collision generated 36 Septillion Yottowatts of power. A septillion is a number with 24 zeros - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/septillion. A Yottowatt is equivalent to 10 to the power of 24 watts of power - http://extraconversion.com/power/yottawatts.
So this merger generated 36,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts of power, which was just enough to blow my farking mind!