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What would happen if you made a planet out of fish?


In the fall of 2019, Ryan Roberts and I gave a talk to high schoolers at Berkeley Splash on analyzing absurd scenarios with real physics. His talk elucidated what would happen if you put an egg inside the beampipe of the Large Hadron Collider, but I wanted to answer a deep question even a small child could ask.

His talk elucidated what would happen if you put an egg inside the beampipe of the Large Hadron Collider, but I wanted to answer a deep question even a small child could ask. People haven’t studied the basic chemical constituents of haddock closely, but the chemistry of humans is well-studied and pretty similar, geologically speaking. By mass, the human body is roughly 65% oxygen, 20% carbon, and 10% hydrogen, with at least 0.1% of nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium, with traces of many other elements.

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