Is the Tunguska explosion of nearly 20 million tons equivalent caused by antimatter? Don't be fooled

Speaking of the largest explosion in the history of human civilization, the Tunguska explosion is well deserved. According to calculations, the Tunguska explosion is equivalent to 15-20 million tons of TNT equivalent.

Nearly 20 million tons of TNT equivalent, what kind of concept is this? We can make a comparison. During World War II, the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima was equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, which means that the Tunguska explosion was nearly 1,000 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. What kind of scene is such a huge explosion?

According to survivors, in the early morning of June 30, 1908, with a loud bang, the forest was covered in flames, the heat wave swept in, the earth shook, and stones fell from the sky like raindrops. This description sounds grand, but it fails to capture the significant difference between the Tunguska explosion and other explosions. The size of the explosion may not be much different in the central area, but if you zoom out, the difference becomes obvious. The Tunguska explosion affected a wide range, and the loud noise was clearly heard as far as 640 kilometers away from the explosion point, and even affected the United Kingdom thousands of kilometers away.

The Tunguska explosion occurred on the Tunguska River in the Siberian Forest, thousands of kilometers away from Europe, but it affected the power supply in the United Kingdom, and a week after the explosion, the European sky turned a dark purple.

So what is the reason for this sudden explosion? This can indeed be regarded as an unsolved mystery, and the reason why this mystery left by the universe to mankind is difficult to solve is that there is no evidence. First of all, the Tunguska explosion will definitely not be caused by the explosion of nuclear weapons, because the maximum yield of the atomic bombs tested in human history is only equivalent to 500,000 tons of TNT, which is far worse than the scale of the Tunguska explosion, which is close to 20 million tons. The explosion happened in 1908, when there were no atomic bombs. Since it wasn't the atomic bomb, could it be an asteroid impact?

Come to think of it, such a large-scale explosion can only be achieved by an asteroid impact, so in 1927, Russian mineralogist Kurik led a team to investigate the area where the Tunguska explosion was located, and the results of the investigation made him quite disappointed.

After ten years and 75 feet of digging, Couric finally admitted that there are no meteorite residues here. It is impossible to find any clues after such a huge meteorite impact. From this, it can basically be concluded that Tunguska The Big Bang had nothing to do with the meteorite impact. Since no physical evidence can be found at the site of the Tunguska explosion, scientists can only infer the cause through phenomena. The biggest feature of the Tunguska explosion is that it is large, much larger than the explosion caused by nuclear weapons, so what reaction can release more energy than nuclear fission? Scientists think of antimatter. Why can antimatter release more energy than nuclear fission? Let's start with what energy is.

Energy and mass can be converted into each other. In essence, mass is a form of energy, and very small mass can be converted into very huge energy. This conclusion is based on the mass-energy equation.

The mass-energy equation is E=mc∧2, which means that the energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light, and the speed of light is 299792458m/s, so the square of the speed of light is a very large number. Therefore, even a very small mass is multiplied by the speed of light. will be huge after the square. The energy released by a chemical reaction is extremely limited, because there is almost no loss of mass during the chemical reaction, so we can balance the chemical formula. The reason why nuclear fission can release huge energy is because mass loss occurs in the process of nuclear fission, and part of the mass is converted into energy, but the process of nuclear fission can only convert less than 3% of the mass into energy. The conversion of 3% of the mass into energy has such a huge power, and the annihilation of positive and negative matter will occur, that is to say, all the mass will be converted into energy, and its power is self-evident.

Because the annihilation of positive and antimatter can release very huge energy, scientists speculate that a 0.5-gram "anti-iron" landed on the earth and annihilated with the iron element on the surface, triggering the Tunguska explosion.

It should be said that this kind of speculation is reasonable to a certain extent, but it is a bit whimsical. Positive and antimatter will annihilate when they meet. How does a 0.5-gram piece of antimatter come to the earth across the sea of ​​stars? If the Tunguska explosion has nothing to do with antimatter, what is the reason?

In recent years, scientists from the Siberian Federal University in Russia have repeatedly studied the data of the Tunguska explosion and came to a reliable conclusion that the culprit of the Tunguska explosion is actually an asteroid, but it did not have any substance with the earth. sexual collision. Scientists calculated that at that time, an asteroid composed of an iron-nickel alloy passed through the top of the troposphere of the earth's atmosphere at a very high speed and disappeared into the vast universe. Although the asteroid just brushed past Earth, it formed a powerful shock wave that hit the ground, triggering the Tunguska explosion. Although this conclusion is also speculation, it perfectly explains everything about the Tunguska explosion, such as why there is no substantive evidence left, and why the sky in Europe still turns dark purple a week after the explosion. The reason is that The asteroid swept past the top of the troposphere, leaving behind a lot of dust, which caused the sky to be unusually colored.

So, a shock wave can cause such a catastrophe. You never know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident. Don't take every day's life for granted. It is very lucky that we can still survive today. Don't worry about trivialities at home and intrigues at work. Get all the people and things that make you unhappy out of your life, and if you can't, get them out of your head.