If Mass <-> Energy was Feasible

[Jairo]

The entire economy would break.

A company with the machine could just turn trash to energy and turn the trash to diamonds and sell it. Or just sell the energy. Since everything would essentially be renewable and could come from anything with equal mass, 1 cm3 of osmium would be worth more than diamonds while water would be worth more than oil.

Yeaaahhhh.....

that would lower the prices of everything since everything could be made

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[Electrk]

Someone's never heard of E = mc^2.

Basically it states mass can be converted to energy at an extremely high ratio. It's why atom bombs work. Unfortunately, it's not feasible or possible with today's equipment to transmute trash to gold or covert water to pure energy, but if it were feasible it would be awesome.

And it would have extremely dangerous weapon abilities. By that I mean a few kg of useless crap could explode an entire country.

>Transmute trash to gold

Not only is that ridiculous but it's also impossible seeing as gold is an element. Unless the trash has a compound with gold in it you ain't gonna be transmuting stuff.

[Wynd_Fox]

Trash to gold. Alchemists assemble!

[Mold]

Who cares for the gold
What we need is energy

[otto-san]

Who cares for the gold
What we need is energy

any currency that cares about its worth, for instance

[Electrk]

I don't think OP knows what he's talking about.

[Jairo]

op thinks transmittance = transcendence

[TristanLuigi]

>Transmute trash to gold

Not only is that ridiculous but it's also impossible seeing as gold is an element. Unless the trash has a compound with gold in it you ain't gonna be transmuting stuff.

Have you been paying attention to the thread? We're not purifying the trash. We're basically exploding the atoms which is converted to a butt-ton of energy (we would need some kind of colossal battery, otherwise it could wipe the country off the map) which we then condense back into gold, by some kind of template or something.

Who cares for the gold
What we need is energy

I was using an example. Of course we wouldn't need the gold because gold would no longer be expensive because it would be worth the same as ANYTHING with the same weight.
Oh, and things like looking for coal and ore, refining wood, pulverizing paper, ect. would be pretty pointless, since you can just use regular stone.

[Jubel]

It wouldn't be worth it at all lol

[Jairo]

Have you been paying attention to the thread? We're not purifying the trash. We're basically exploding the atoms which is converted to a butt-ton of energy (we would need some kind of colossal battery, otherwise it could wipe the country off the map) which we then condense back into gold, by some kind of template or something.

...I don't think you've ever paid attention during science class

[TristanLuigi]

any currency that cares about its worth, for instance

Currency would be much more complicated due to the value of it declining rapidly and the fact that a glass of water could be transmuted to bank notes perfectly.

...I don't think you've ever paid attention during science class

Dude. I'm not even IN a physics class, this is my understanding of what I've heard from my Chemistry I textbook, the internet, the equation E=mc^2, ect.

[Electrk]

1. By "exploding atoms" I think you mean splitting atoms.
2. Splitting atoms causes a massive explosion.
3. It would be extremely difficult to form a gold atom with a bunch of loose subatomic particles (which would probably try to form together by themselves anyway).

[Electrk]

Dude. I'm not even IN a physics class, this is my understanding of what I've heard from my Chemistry I textbook, the internet, the equation E=mc^2, ect.

Well there's your problem.

[Jairo]

Currency would be much more complicated due to the value of it declining rapidly and the fact that a glass of water could be transmuted to bank notes perfectly.
Dude. I'm not even IN a physics class, this is my understanding of what I've heard from my Chemistry I textbook, the internet, the equation E=mc^2, ect.

let me break this down:

Currency would be much more complicated due to the value of it declining rapidly and the fact that a glass of water could be transmuted to bank notes perfectly.

by "perfectly," are you implying that each transmittance would change the serial key on the note and reprint the ink perfectly?

I'm not even IN a physics class, this is my understanding of what I've heard from my Chemistry I textbook,

and when was that published/how much of it have you read?

the internet,

I'm guessing just wikipedia?

the equation E=mc^2

ugh
I don't
I
facepalm

[Electrk]

He's just throwing E=mc^2 around to try make himself look smart and to hide the fact that he doesn't know what the forget he's talking about.