Blueberry Earth
2018/07/27 by Anders Sandberg, Sandberg, Anders · 12 voices
#physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1807.10553
Abstract
This paper explores the physics of the what-if question "what if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries?" While the assumption may be absurd, the consequences can be explored rigorously using elementary physics. The result is not entirely dissimilar to a small ocean-world exoplanet.
Discussions
- Que deviendrait la Terre si elle était instantanément transformée en un volume identique de myrtilles ? Réponse: une planète-océan de confiture bouillante, à l'atmosphère opaque, avec la même gravité [bsky, 116 points, 18 comments]
- Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (2018) [hn, 99 points, 36 comments]
- In honor of this blue site, I'm sharing one of my favorite academic what-if papers: "What if Earth were replaced with an equal volume of closely packed blueberries?" The answer is full of surprises, [bsky, 86 points, 9 comments]
- Blueberry Earth [hn, 15 points, 0 comments]
- may be of interest. from @anderssandberg (not on here apparently) arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553 [bsky, 4 points, 1 comments]
- Blueberry Earth [hn, 3 points, 0 comments]
- Blueberry Earth (2018) [hn, 2 points, 0 comments]
- Blueberry Earth [pdf] [hn, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Blueberry Earth (2018) [hn, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Every time Trump gets elected the planet boffins start writing equations about fruit and vegetable planets. arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Truly, @squarelyrooted has outdone himself in digging this up. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.10553.pdf [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Blueberry Earth: What if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries? https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553 HT @Radiolab [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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