This calculator is the inverse of the E=mc2 calculator. If mass can be annihilated and become kinetic energy, then energy can become mass/matter, right? It takes a TON of energy to create just one teeny tiny little speck of mass, but it can be done. Go ahead and type a value of energy, and transform it into a chunk or speck of matter.
Every gray pixel = 1 POUND of mass. The combined energy of the 2 nuclear bombs dropped on Japan (Little Boy and Fat Man), could not even create 1 gram of matter.
The combined powers of the largest thermonuclear weapon detonated by the USA (Castle Bravo) and Russia (Tzar Bomba), could only create about 7 pounds of matter. This entire box contains 70,000 pixels, that means this entire box = 70,000 pounds of mass. That may seem like a lot, but it's very small. The Earth is just a speck in space, too small to even be justified as even being a microscopic speck, how much of Earth's mass does this "giant" block of 70,000 pounds represent? One millionth, billionth, or trillionth? One quadrillionth? One quintillionth? Close... it represents around 100 quintillionth of the Earth's total mass, which itself is just a little speck of nothing floating in space. The amount of energy it took to create Earth, and the rest of the cosmos is INCREDIBLY large.
External links: Atomic Archive - US Forces
note: Firefox and Apple Safari are able to populate the box with significant amounts of red instantly, but IE 7.0 lags.
This is a list of different masses that you can type in. Some of these figures are the actual mass of an object, while others are not the mass of the object, but the mass that was annihilated by the object, such as a nuclear bomb.
This 1st section is grams, so all listed values are either the amount of grams annihilated (nukes) or how many grams its mass is (random objects).
ATTENTION: Everything in this list is just an ESTIMATE!
GRAMS
Nuke: Little Boy 0.6517 grams annihilated Nuke: Fat Man 1.0707 grams annihilated Paper Clip 1.4 grams of mass Large paper clip 2 grams of mass Almond M&M 3 grams of mass 9mm Browning Long bullet 6 grams of mass 9mm Para bellum bullet 8 grams of mass Castle Bravo 698 grams annihilated
The explosive yield of Little Boy, the first nuclear bomb dropped on Japan. ~0.0006517 grams of mass was destroyed.
The explosive yield of Fat Man, the second nuclear bomb dropped on Japan.
The amount of energy in a paper clip (1.4 grams). That's right, there is more energy in just 1 paper clip than either of the nukes dropped on Japan.
The amount of energy in a nickel (5 grams, 0.05 kg). There is more energy in a nickel, than Little Boy, Fat Man, and a paper clip combined! This of course is only counted the KE (kinetic energy) released by the nukes, not their PE (potential energy), because they weight MUCH more than a nickel does.
About the amount of energy the entire human population digests in a day.
The explosive yield of Castle Bravo, the largest nuclear bomb detonated by the US. 698 grams of mass was annihilated.
The amount of energy that would be released if a pound of antimatter came in contact with you.
The explosive yield of Tzar Bomba, the largest nuclear bomb detonated in the world.
The energy released if the typical adult male (190 pounds) came in contact with his antimatter twin.
The energy generated by the entire world in 2003.
Estimated amount of energy released by the Dinosaur Killer Asteroid (Chicxulub).
The amount of energy the Sun generates every second.
There are many things that contain potential energy. Sugar, gasoline, fat/oil, TNT, gun powder, ethanol/alcohol and propane all contain potential energy. When a molecule of sugar, gasoline, TNT or alcohol is DESTROYED or 'burned', it releases the potential energy. In other words, the potential energy is converted into kinetic energy.
Albert Einstein realized that mass itself, was a form of potential energy. This means that if mass is DESTROYED/ANNHILATED, then its potential energy will be converted into kinetic energy. Einstein constructed an equation that would figure out how much kinetic energy would be produced by destroying mass. This equation is E=mc^2. E is for energy and M is for mass. Energy equals mass times C squared. C stands for the speed of light which is an incredibly huge number. Which means that mass contains an incredibly large amount of energy.
At the very top of this window there is a place to type in an amount of mass. Try typing in your weight and see how much energy would be released if all the energy contained in your mass was released.