How dare they serve Carl Sagan an apple pie that is so crumbly??? I am burning this place down! And where is the cool whip?! You can't have a pie without cool whip!!!
@MastermindX if you put cool whip on a homemade apple pie like that it would be a disgrace to anyone who enjoys desserts hahahaha. real whip cream is such much better.
@quitchiboo Well, atoms range in size. The smallest being helium with an estimated diameter of 32 picometers, or 0.032 nanometers. I'm not a mathematician so I'm not sure how many sloppy pie cuts that would be.
@quitchiboo If you use a simpler model and assume the piece of pie to consist only of pure carbon and weighs about 100g you can use Avogadro's constant to get quite close to 90 cuts:
Na = 6*10^23 atoms (in 12g carbon) -> So you have A = 100g / 12g * Na ~= 5*10^24 atoms in the piece. With each cut you halve this amount and so you need n = ln(A) / ln(2) ~= 82 cuts to get down to a single atom. But since the pie also has lots of Hydrogen, you have more atoms and need more cuts.
@gishidenki your method is the way to go;) however lets be really pedantic and say the piece is really 100g, assuming it contains other stuff ,in addition to carbon, would decrease the number of atoms contained in that very mass, thus decreasing the number of cuts you would need.
@quitchiboo If the piece's mass is made up not only of carbon but of hydrogen and you assume the density stays the same, you end up with more total atoms. That's because the mass stays the same but the average atom is lighter and so you need more atoms to "fill it up". :)
@quitchiboo I simply did ^^ Still, that decrease is negligible compared to the gain of atoms you get. Anyways you can only calculate the order of magnitude here because we ultimately will never know the number of atoms for said piece of pie :)
How dare they serve Carl Sagan an apple pie that is so crumbly??? I am burning this place down! And where is the cool whip?! You can't have a pie without cool whip!!!
MastermindX 1 month ago
@MastermindX if you put cool whip on a homemade apple pie like that it would be a disgrace to anyone who enjoys desserts hahahaha. real whip cream is such much better.
eriksports 1 month ago
if an atom is approx. 0.1 nanometers in diameter it would only take 31 successive cuts to get down to an idividual atom:)
quitchiboo 1 month ago
@quitchiboo Well, atoms range in size. The smallest being helium with an estimated diameter of 32 picometers, or 0.032 nanometers. I'm not a mathematician so I'm not sure how many sloppy pie cuts that would be.
Hritzness 1 month ago
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quitchiboo 1 month ago
@quitchiboo If you use a simpler model and assume the piece of pie to consist only of pure carbon and weighs about 100g you can use Avogadro's constant to get quite close to 90 cuts:
Na = 6*10^23 atoms (in 12g carbon) -> So you have A = 100g / 12g * Na ~= 5*10^24 atoms in the piece. With each cut you halve this amount and so you need n = ln(A) / ln(2) ~= 82 cuts to get down to a single atom. But since the pie also has lots of Hydrogen, you have more atoms and need more cuts.
gishidenki 3 weeks ago
@gishidenki your method is the way to go;) however lets be really pedantic and say the piece is really 100g, assuming it contains other stuff ,in addition to carbon, would decrease the number of atoms contained in that very mass, thus decreasing the number of cuts you would need.
quitchiboo 3 weeks ago
@quitchiboo If the piece's mass is made up not only of carbon but of hydrogen and you assume the density stays the same, you end up with more total atoms. That's because the mass stays the same but the average atom is lighter and so you need more atoms to "fill it up". :)
gishidenki 3 weeks ago
@gishidenki why would one assume the denisity to remain the same, thou? denisity of sucrose: 1.57 g/cm^3 whereas density of graphite: 2.2 g/cm^3
quitchiboo 3 weeks ago
@quitchiboo I simply did ^^ Still, that decrease is negligible compared to the gain of atoms you get. Anyways you can only calculate the order of magnitude here because we ultimately will never know the number of atoms for said piece of pie :)
gishidenki 3 weeks ago
Y U DO DIS CARL SAGAN? Y U NOT USE SLIGHT OF HAND TO TAKE OUT THE SLICE PERFECTLY? Y CARL SAGAN YYYYYYYYY!?!!?!?!?!?!?
Pyrus335 1 month ago
So THAT'S the house Carl Sagan bought with the money from his show...
I've got to become a renowned astrophysicist...
TheVerandaguy 1 month ago
that pie looks dank
WOLFNBEAST 2 months ago
Mr. Sagan, how many cuts does it take to get to the size of an atom?
lets, find out a one, a two, a three, crumble
HOW MANY CUTS DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE SIZE OF AN ATOM, THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW
funguys601 2 months ago
@funguys601 90
kiopi94 2 months ago
I'd like to try
some of that PIE...
Hmm... I like the way "Pie" sounds... It's seems
to fit the actual object in reality quite well :D
SincereCreature 3 months ago 3
Why is he in the Great Hall at Hogwarts?
ColinMcDonaldGrant 5 months ago 6
instead of wasting our time in making stuff that explodes we shuld invet stuff like apple pies, crumbly but good.
gethsoftware 5 months ago
Carl Sagan - amazing astrophysicist.. sucks at cutting pie.
atomicwave 6 months ago 57
@atomicwave Hahaha, that made my day. xD
TheBlueorigami 6 months ago 12
@atomicwave CARL SAGAN SUCKS AT NOTHING SIR. IF IT WAS DONE WRONG IT WAS INTENTIONAL NO DOUBT!
TheKturner05 2 months ago
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I3L4NK 8 months ago
@I3L4NK Ah I see what you mean. It seems dubbed over.
Hritzness 8 months ago