Destroying the Earth is not so easy. The earth was created to exist. This is 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000 tons of iron ball, 4,550,000,000 years old. During its lifetime, the Earth has received large quantity devastating asteroid strikes than you had lunch, and continues to fun run around the orbit. Therefore, dear destroyers of the Earth, this is not an easy task at all. The methods described here are not aimed at the destruction of humanity or life in general, but rather at the complete destruction of the planet itself. All of these methods are consistent with modern scientific understanding and therefore should work.

1. Annihilated by an appropriate amount of antimatter.

Required: Earth-sized planet made of antimatter. At present, antimatter can be produced in very small quantities in huge particle accelerators. It will take forever to create enough antimatter using accelerators, so maybe you can improve this process or come up with a completely new one.
Method: Once you've managed to get enough antimatter, just launch that mass in the direction of the Earth. The subsequent release of energy (according to Einstein's well-known formula E=mc2) will be equivalent to the amount that the Sun emits in 89 million years.
What will remain: In a collision, matter and antimatter completely annihilate each other. All that remains of the Earth is a flash of light expanding in space. This is the most radical method of all proposed, since the very matter from which the Earth was made ceases to exist. The earth cannot be reassembled.
Feasibility assessment: 2/10. It is technically POSSIBLE to create antimatter, so it is technically POSSIBLE to destroy the Earth. But if new methods for creating antimatter are not invented, then an unrealistically huge amount of time will be required for its implementation.
A comment: With a much smaller amount of antimatter, you can simply blow up the Earth.

2. Split into elementary particles.

Required: Universal splitting machine (i.e. accelerator elementary particles), an unimaginable amount of energy.
Method: Take every single atom on planet Earth and split it into hydrogen and helium. Split heavy elements to hydrogen and helium is the opposite of a self-sustaining reaction in the sun: you need to put in energy, which is why the energy requirements are so huge.
What will remain: While the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, composed primarily of helium and hydrogen, are massive enough to hold their atmospheres, Earth is not massive enough. In place of the Earth will be a thin cloud of gas.
Feasibility assessment: 2/10. Technically possible, but again staggeringly inefficient and time consuming. Guys, it will take you at least a few billion years.

3. Sucked in by a microscopic black hole.

Required: Microscopic black hole. Note. Black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For an ordinary hole, this process will take an unimaginable amount of time, but very small ones can evaporate almost instantly, since the evaporation time depends on the mass. So you need a black hole with a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest.
Method: Just place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes have such high density that pass through ordinary matter like a stone through air. The black hole will gradually stop in the core of the Earth, and you will only have to wait until it absorbs all the matter of the planet.
What will remain: A singularity with an approximate radius of 9 millimeters that will continue to merrily orbit around the Sun.
Feasibility assessment: 3/10. Unlikely, but not impossible.

4. Welded in a solar furnace.

Required: means for focusing a noticeable part of the solar energy emission directly to the Earth. What is it about? About mirrors, many mirrors. Intercept a few large asteroids for raw materials, and start producing kilometer-long sheets of light reflective materials (aluminized mylar, aluminum foil, nickel foil, whatever else you can make). Lits will need to be able to change the focal length on their own, as the position of the Sun and Earth will constantly change, so attach several thrusters to each sheet, as well as communication and navigation systems. According to preliminary calculations, you will need approximately 2 trillion square kilometers of mirrors.
Method: Control the mirrors in such a way as to focus as much solar energy as possible on the Earth - either at the core or at some point on the surface. Theoretically, the temperature of the Earth will rise until the planet completely boils away and turns into a gas cloud.
What will remain: Gas cloud.
Feasibility assessment: 3/10. The main problem is what to do to prevent the cooling of matter, and the Earth does not turn into a planet again? In fact, if the planet's surface layers become gaseous, what would cause them to escape into space rather than stay near the surface, absorbing even more energy and preventing the lower layers from heating up? If the amount of energy is not really huge, then you will get a gas planet at best, and then only temporarily.

5. Overhyped.

Required: Means for accelerating the rotation of the Earth. The acceleration of the Earth's rotation is different from its movement. External influence can move the Earth, but will not have any noticeable effect on its rotation. You will need to build rockets or electromagnetic guns at the equator, which will all face west. Or something even more exotic.
Method: The theory is that if you spin the Earth fast enough, it will fall apart as the equator moves fast enough to overcome the effects of gravity. One revolution in 84 minutes will be enough. Even a slower rotation on its axis will suffice, as the Earth will become flatter and more prone to break apart as the speed of rotation accelerates.
Feasibility assessment: 4/10. This can be done because Earth-sized bodies have a limit to how fast they can spin before they start to fall apart. However, spinning a planet is much more difficult than moving it. You can't get by with missiles alone.

6. Blown up.

Required: 25,000,000,000,000 tons of antimatter.
Method: This method involves detonating a bomb powerful enough to shatter the Earth into pieces. In general, the bomb should be large enough. All human-made explosives, nuclear and non-nuclear, brought together and detonated at the same time, will create a significant crater and destroy the ecosystem, but barely scratch the surface of the planet. The data indicate that in the past the Earth was bombarded by asteroids, the explosions of which were equivalent to the explosion of 5 billion atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima, but traces of such explosions are hard to find. There is also a problem with gravity. If the explosion is not powerful enough, those pieces will reassemble under the influence of mutual gravitational attraction, and the Earth, like a liquid terminator, will be recreated from fragments.
What will remain: The second asteroid ring around the Sun.
Feasibility assessment: 4/10. Well, a little more is possible.

7. Sucked in by a giant black hole.

Required: Black hole, powerful rocket engines. The nearest black hole from Earth is 1600 light years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
Method: Once you have determined the location of your black hole, you need to get the black hole closer to the Earth. This is perhaps the most time-consuming part of the plan. For best results, you should move both the Earth and the black hole.
What will remain: The earth will become part of the mass of the black hole.
Feasibility assessment: 6/10. Very difficult, but definitely possible.

8. Carefully and systematically analyzed.

Required: Mass Accelerator. The mass accelerator is a huge electromagnetic gun that was once proposed to deliver minerals from the Moon to Earth - you just load them into the accelerator and launch them in about the right direction. Your design must be powerful enough to achieve an escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second. At the rate of a million tons of mass being expelled from the Earth's gravity well per second, this process will take 189,000,000 years. One mass accelerator will be enough, but ideally, it is better to use a lot of accelerators. Alternatively, space elevators or conventional rockets can be used.
Method: Essentially, we will be digging up huge chunks of the Earth and launching them into space. All 1021 tons of the mass of the Earth. Ignore atmospheric conditions. Compared to the additional energy expended in overcoming air friction, it would be a rather trivial step to completely burn the atmosphere before starting the process. Even with the atmosphere destroyed, this method would require a titanic amount of energy.
What will remain: Many small pieces, some of which will fall on the Sun, some will be scattered over solar system.
Feasibility assessment: 6/10. If we wanted to start this process, we can start RIGHT NOW. In fact, with all the debris we've left behind in orbit, on the Moon, that's heading into deep space right now, that process has already begun.

9. Turned to dust when colliding with a blunt tool

Required: A large, heavy rock, about the size of Mars.
Method: Essentially, anything can be destroyed if hit hard enough. ALL. Find a sufficiently massive asteroid or planet, accelerate this object to an impressive speed and smash it into the Earth, preferably head-on. The result: a spectacular collision that turns the Earth (and most likely our cue ball) into dust - shattering into many small pieces that, if the force of the collision was strong enough, would have enough energy to overcome mutual attraction and scatter throughout the system. You can use smaller objects than Mars. Let's say a 5,000,000,000,000 ton asteroid accelerated to 90% of the speed of light will do.
What will remain: A pile of debris, some the size of the moon, scattered throughout the solar system.
Feasibility assessment: 7/10. Pretty plausible.

A lot of information is written and shows that our planet will soon come to an end. But destroying the Earth is not so easy. The planet has already been subjected to asteroid impacts, will survive and nuclear war. So let's see a few ways to destroy the Earth.

The Earth weighs 5.9736 1024 kg and is already 4.5 billion years old.

1. The earth may simply cease to exist.

You don't even have to do anything. Some scientists have suggested that one day all the countless atoms that make up the Earth will suddenly spontaneously and most importantly, simultaneously, cease to exist. In fact, the probability of this turn of events is about a googolplex to one. And the technology that allows sending so much active matter into oblivion is unlikely to ever be invented.

2. Will be consumed by strangelets

All you need is a stable strangelet. Take control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and use it to create and maintain stable strangelets. Keep them stable until they get out of control and turn the entire planet into a mass of "strange" quarks. True, keeping strangelets stable is incredibly difficult (if only because no one has yet discovered these particles), but with a creative approach, everything is possible.

A number of media outlets have been talking about this danger for a while now and that this is exactly what New York is doing now, but in reality the chances of a stable strangelet ever being formed are almost zero.

But if this happens, then only a huge ball of “strange” matter will remain in place of the Earth.

3. Will be devoured by a microscopic black hole

You need a microscopic black hole. Please note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate under the influence of Hawking radiation. For medium-sized black holes, this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for very small ones, this happens almost instantly: the evaporation time depends on the mass. Therefore, a black hole suitable for destroying a planet should weigh about the same as Everest. It's difficult to create one because it requires a certain amount of neutronium, but you can try to get by with a huge number of atomic nuclei squeezed together.

Then you have to put black hole to the surface of the earth and wait. The density of black holes is so high that they pass through ordinary matter like stone through air, so our hole will fall through the Earth, making its way through its center to the other side of the planet: the hole will swing back and forth like a pendulum. In the end, having absorbed enough matter, it will stop at the center of the Earth and “eat up” the rest.

The likelihood of such a turn of events is very small. But it's no longer possible.

And in place of the Earth, a tiny object will remain, which will begin to revolve around the Sun, as if nothing had happened.

4. Will explode as a result of the reaction of matter and antimatter

We will need 2,500,000,000,000 antimatter - perhaps the most "explosive" substance in the universe. It can be obtained in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but it will take a long time to reach the required amount. You can come up with an appropriate mechanism, but it is much easier, of course, to simply “flip” 2.5 tril. tons of matter through the fourth dimension, turning it into antimatter in one fell swoop. The result will be a huge bomb that will immediately tear the Earth to pieces.

How difficult is it to implement? The gravitational energy of the planetary mass (M) and the radius (P) are given by the formula E=(3/5)GM2/R. As a result, the Earth will require approximately 224 * 1010 joules. The sun generates that much for almost a week.

To release that much energy, you need to destroy all 2.5 trills at the same time. tons of antimatter - provided that the loss of heat and energy will be zero, and this is unlikely to succeed, so the amount will have to be increased tenfold. And if so much antimatter still managed to get, it remains just to launch it to the Earth. As a result of the release of energy (the familiar law E = mc2), the Earth will shatter into thousands of pieces.

At this point, the asteroid belt will remain, which will continue to revolve around the Sun.

By the way, if you start producing antimatter right now, then given modern technologies, by the year 2500 you can just finish it.

5. Will be destroyed by vacuum energy detonation

Don't be surprised: we'll need light bulbs. Modern scientific theories say that what we call a vacuum, in fact, cannot rightfully be called that, because particles and antiparticles are constantly created and destroyed in it in enormous quantities. This approach also implies that the space contained in any light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil any ocean on the planet. Therefore, vacuum energy can be one of the most available species energy. All you have to do is figure out how to extract it from the light bulbs and use it in, say, a power plant (it's pretty easy to sneak in without arousing suspicion), start the reaction and let it get out of control. As a result, the released energy is enough to destroy everything on the planet Earth, possibly together with the Sun.

In place of the Earth, a rapidly expanding cloud of particles of various sizes will appear.

The probability of such a turn of events, of course, is, but it is very small.

6. Get sucked into a giant black hole

What is needed is a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and possibly a large rocky planetary body. The closest black hole to our planet is located at a distance of 1,600 light years in the constellation of Sagittarius, orbiting V4641.

Everything is simple here - you just need to place the Earth and the black hole closer to each other. There are two ways to do this: either move the Earth in the direction of the hole, or the hole in the direction of the Earth, but it is more efficient, of course, to move both at once.

This is very difficult to implement, but definitely possible. In place of the Earth will be part of the mass of the black hole.

The downside is that you have to wait too long for the technology to do this. Definitely not earlier than the year 3000, plus travel time - 800 years.

7. Carefully and systematically deconstructed

You will need a powerful electromagnetic catapult (ideally several) and access to approximately 2 * 1032 joules.

Next, you need to take a large piece of the Earth at a time and launch it beyond earth orbit. And so time after time to launch all 6 sextillion tons. The electromagnetic catapult is a kind of huge electromagnetic rail gun proposed several years ago for mining and transporting cargo from the Moon to Earth. The principle is simple - load material into the catapult and fire it in the right direction. To destroy the Earth, you need to use a particularly powerful model to give the object an escape velocity of 11 km/s.

Alternative methods for ejecting material into space involve space shuttles or a space elevator. The problem is that they require a titanic amount of energy. You could also build a Dyson sphere, but technology will probably allow you to do this in about 5000 years.

In principle, the process of throwing matter out of the planet can be started right now, humanity has already sent a lot of useful and not very objects into space, so until a certain point no one will even notice anything.

Instead of the Earth, as a result, there will be many small pieces, some of which will fall on the Sun, and the rest will end up in all corners of the solar system.

Oh yes. The implementation of the project, taking into account the ejection from the Earth of a billion tons per second, will take 189 million years.

8. Will break into pieces under the impact of a blunt object

It will take a colossal heavy stone and something to push it. In principle, Mars is quite suitable.

The thing is, there is nothing that can't be destroyed if hit hard enough. Nothing at all. The concept is simple: you need to find a very, very big asteroid or a planet, give it breathtaking speed and push it into the Earth. The result will be that the Earth, like the object that hit it, will cease to exist - it will simply fall apart into several large pieces. If the impact was strong enough and accurate enough, then the energy from it would be enough for new objects to overcome mutual attraction and never gather into a planet again.

The minimum allowable speed for an "impact" object is 11 km/s, so assuming there is no energy loss, our object should have a mass of approximately 60% of the earth's. Mars weighs approximately 11% of the earth's mass, but Venus, the closest planet to Earth, by the way, already weighs 81% of the earth's mass. If you disperse Mars harder, then it will also do, but Venus is already an almost ideal candidate for this role. The greater the speed of an object, the less mass it can have. For example, a 10*104 asteroid launched at 90% of the speed of light would be just as effective.

Quite plausible.

Instead of the Earth, there will be pieces of rock roughly the size of the Moon, scattered throughout the solar system.

9. Absorbed by a von Neumann machine

Only one von Neumann machine is needed - a device capable of creating a copy of itself from minerals. Build one that will run solely on iron, magnesium, aluminum or silicon - basically the basic elements found in the Earth's mantle or core. The size of the device does not matter - it can reproduce itself at any time. Next, you need to lower the cars under the earth's crust and wait for two machines to create two more, these create eight more, and so on. As a result, the Earth will be swallowed up by a bunch of von Neumann machines, and they can be sent to the Sun with the help of pre-prepared rocket boosters.

This is such a crazy idea that it might even work.

The Earth will turn into a large piece, gradually absorbed by the Sun.

By the way, potentially such a machine can be created in 2050 or even earlier.

10. Abandoned in the Sun

You will need special technologies for the movement of the Earth. The point is to throw the Earth into the Sun. However, it is not so easy to ensure such a collision, even if you do not set yourself the goal of hitting the planet exactly on the “target”. It is enough that the Earth is close to it, and then the tidal forces will tear it apart. The main thing is to prevent the Earth from entering an elliptical orbit.

At our level of technology, this is impossible, but someday people will come up with a way. Or an accident could happen: an object will appear out of nowhere and push the Earth in the right direction. And from our planet there will remain a small ball of evaporating iron, gradually sinking into the Sun.

There is some likelihood that something similar will happen in 25 years: previously, astronomers have already noticed suitable asteroids in space moving towards the Earth. But if we discard the random factor, then at current level development of technology, humanity will not be able to do this until the year 2250.

The modern age has brought us one of the most nightmarish inventions in all of human history - the atomic bomb. This harnesses the power of physics by extracting a huge amount of energy from a relatively small amount of mass. This small mass of charge creates an incomprehensible fire, blast wave, radiation. All this carries a threat to humanity in the form of the death of millions and diseases associated with exposure to radiation.

So the fact has long been known that in the event of massive explosions of nuclear bombs on the planet, humanity may die. But can our planet die from a massive explosion of nuclear charges? In fact, there are no such military resources on the planet that could destroy the entire Earth, revolving in the form of a sphere around the Sun. Recall that the diameter of our planet is 12,742 kilometers. Such a huge sphere cannot be destroyed by the entire nuclear arsenal that exists on our planet. Here are the technical explanations of famous physicists.

Recently, physicists (astrophysicists) were asked what are the limits of destruction of nuclear weapons available on our planet. Scientists were also asked how many nuclear bombs would be needed to move the Earth out of its orbit around the Sun. In particular, physicists were asked a more important question: what consequences await the Earth if all the nuclear weapons of our planet are blown up?

Konstantin Yurievich Batygin

Astronomer, astrophysicist

• - In principle, to move the Earth out of its orbit, you just need to stop its movement. Then it will begin to fall in space.
• The kinetic energy of the Earth (the energy of the Earth revolving around the Sun) is equal to half the mass of the Earth times its orbital speed, which is about 10 40 erg. (Erg / Ergs - unit of energy)
• During the test (Starfish Prime) of one of the most powerful American nuclear bombs, an energy of 10 22 ergs (1 megaton of TNT) was released.
• Given this data, we can calculate how many nuclear bombs need to explode at the same time to stop the rotation of our planet. You will find that you will need 600,000,000,000,000,000 nuclear weapons, comparable to the yield of a bomb that was detonated by the Americans in a test called Starfish Prime.

Luke Dones

Senior Research Fellow, Southwestern Research Institute USA

• - Kinetic energy of the Earth in its orbit:

• E=½ mv 2 \u003d ½ (6 x 10 24 kg) * (30,000 m / s) 2 or approximately 3 10 33 J, where m is the mass of the earth, v is its speed around the sun.
• The energy of a 1-megaton bomb is E bomb = 4 10 15 J.

• To knock the Earth out of orbit and send aside, for example, the Sun, you will need to change the energy of the Earth in orbit by a significant part of its current energy, so you will need approximately E / E bomb = (3 x 10 33) / (4 x 10 15 ) nuclear bombs, or approximately 10 18 megatons of nuclear charges, that is, a billion billion large atomic bombs.

Janine Kripner

volcanologist

• - If the largest and most explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth did not send our planet towards the Sun, then it is rather doubtful that humanity will ever have so many atomic bombs capable of knocking planet Earth out of orbit with their simultaneous explosion, directing it directly towards Sun.
• For example, on our planet there were volcanic eruptions that released enormous energy, comparable to hundreds and even thousands of nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima. Moreover, these volcanic eruptions do not take into account the incredibly huge energy that volcanoes such as Yellowstone or Taupo occasionally throw out.

Alan Robock

Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, USA

• - I have no experience in calculating the nuclear energy needed to change planetary orbits. But, despite this, I will immediately say that this is impossible. We do not have so many atomic bombs on our planet that would be able to send our Earth to travel across the expanses of the Universe in a new orbit.

However, I have experience and knowledge of how the use of nuclear weapons in war can change the climate of our Earth.

So, if a nuclear war starts, then, naturally, the first strikes of atomic bombs will fall on the industrial regions (cities, towns) of the opposing countries. Incredible fires will start as a result of the explosion of atomic bombs. The smoke from the fires will rise into the stratosphere and change over the years.

• As the smoke rises into the stratosphere, it will block the entry sun rays twilight will fall on the planet and on Earth. At the same time, the destruction of the ozone layer will begin, which will lead to a large amount of UV rays penetrating the Earth's surface.

How the climate will change and the amount of ultraviolet radiation received will depend on the number of nuclear explosions on the planet, their goals, and how powerful atomic weapons will be used.

• By the way, it has already been calculated that the war between the United States and Russia will lead to a nuclear winter, killing most of Agriculture throughout the Earth, causing the majority of people on the planet to face hunger. Moreover, this theory was recently confirmed by the calculations of scientists from a number of countries.

But even a war between two new small nuclear powers, such as India and Pakistan, could also lead to unprecedented climate change in human history, threatened by widespread starvation across the planet.

Dr. Laura Grego

Scientist who works global issues planetary security

• - If you think about what nuclear weapons are and what they are intended for, it becomes uncomfortable. Even one atomic bomb can carry incredible destruction and a huge number of victims. It's horrible. Especially considering the number of nuclear weapons on our planet today. For example, the United States and Russia currently hold the vast majority nuclear weapons on the planet. Each of these countries can quickly deploy about 2,000 nuclear weapons for military operations. There are 2000 more for storage.

One in five people on the planet lives in one of the 436 cities with more than one million inhabitants. Therefore, a significant part of the world's population can be destroyed using less than half of the nuclear bombs that belong to only one country.

• But even a nuclear conflict on a much smaller scale can have devastating consequences. For example, a conflict between India and Pakistan could turn into a nuclear war between them, in which nuclear bombs power comparable to the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima will be used to strike the cities of these countries. As a result, about 20 million people will be destroyed in a short time.

And the smoke from the fires after the explosion of atomic bombs in the cities of these countries will be transferred to the atmosphere of the planet, which is why we are waiting for climate change and acid for decades.

This will lead to mass starvation, leaving a billion or more people at risk of being completely without food.

So, as you can see, the mere storage of nuclear missiles is terrible. Probably, the moment has long since come when it is time for the nuclear powers to take real steps to reduce nuclear weapons on the planet. After all, the storage of nuclear weapons is a time bomb.

Destruction of the Earth
Mankind needs to explore space in order to survive

17 June 2006, 21:30
Photo: wallpaper.net.au
Text: Andrey Vesna

British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, world-famous black hole researcher, speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong, said that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe, because the risk of destroying the Earth is skyrocketing.

64- the year-old professor believes that humans could have a permanent base on the Moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next four decades.

« Rising sea levels and temperatures will make parts of the planet uninhabitable.” years, they must get space colonies that can exist without support from Earth.

« Mankind needs to deploy in space in order to survive as a species. Life on Earth is under an ever-increasing threat of being destroyed by a disaster like sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically modified virus, or other dangers that we have not even thought about yet, but which may appear in the future.Hawking said.

He also said that he, along with his daughter Lucy, is going to write a children's book about the universe, designed for the same age category as the stories about Harry Potter. “It will be a story for children that explains the wonders of the universe,” the astrophysicist said without going into details.

Scientists with enviable constancy predict the imminent or not very imminent death of modern civilization or the entire planet at once.In January of this year, one of Britain's leading environmentalists, scientist and diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell stated with confidence that the existence of mankind is under threat. Due to global climate change, in his opinion, 2.3 billion people may remain on Earth in 200 years.

Sir Tickell, the former British Permanent Representative to the UN, is considered the man who convinced Margaret Thatcher that global warming is a real problem. His latest predictions are very bleak. Tickell says our survival is "not guaranteed" and that the presence of humans on Earth could be "nothing more than a messy episode in the planet's history."

Rising sea levels and temperatures will make some parts of the planet uninhabitable, which, along with social factors, will seriously affect the birth rate. Advances in genetics, according to Tickell, could lead to the creation of different subspecies of people, like characters from nightmare tales.

« Human impact on the Earth has especially increased over the past 250 years. As a result of these transformations environment became unviable.The main factors are population growth, land degradation, resource consumption, water and air pollution, climate change, the destruction of other species,” Tikkel explains.

« The solutions to most of the problems we ourselves have created, including the gap between the rich and the poor, are known. But few people want to do it.For this to happen, we must rethink our value system,” adds the scientist.

British ecologist James Lovelock agrees with Tickel's conclusions.the theory of Gaia, according to which our planet, striving for self-preservation, can destroy humanity.Back in 1968, the professor put forward a theory that our planet lives as a single organism, or even as a biological cell, and actively responds to human intervention in the environment, striving for self-preservation.

Recent events have only strengthened the extravagant scientist in his rightness. For example, the extremely hot summer in Europe, which killed 20 thousand people last year, the professor considers the last warning of the Gaia planet before the opening of real hostilities against humanity.

« Now we are the target of Gaia, we are actually already at war with her,” says James Lovelock, explaining that we must stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible.The professor advocates the intensive development of nuclear and alternative energy, scaring the world with the complete destruction of civilization by the Earth in the event of continued emissions of harmful gases into the atmosphere.

A lot of information is written and shows that our planet will soon come to an end. But I assure you, destroying the Earth is not so easy.
The planet has already been subjected to asteroid impacts, and will survive a nuclear war. So let's see a few ways to destroy the Earth.

The Earth weighs 5.9736 1024 kg and is already 4.5 billion years old.

1. The earth may simply cease to exist.

You don't even have to do anything. Some scientists have suggested that one day all the countless atoms that make up the Earth will suddenly spontaneously and most importantly, simultaneously, cease to exist. In fact, the probability of this turn of events is about a googolplex to one. And the technology that allows sending so much active matter into oblivion is unlikely to ever be invented.

2. Will be consumed by strangelets

All you need is a stable strangelet. Take control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and use it to create and maintain stable strangelets. Keep them stable until they get out of control and turn the entire planet into a mass of "strange" quarks. True, keeping strangelets stable is incredibly difficult (if only because no one has yet discovered these particles), but with a creative approach, everything is possible. York, but in reality the chances that a stable strangelet will ever be formed are practically zero. But if this happens, then only a huge ball of "strange" matter will remain in place of the Earth.

3. Will be devoured by a microscopic black hole

You need a microscopic black hole. Please note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate under the influence of Hawking radiation. For medium-sized black holes, this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for very small ones, this happens almost instantly: the evaporation time depends on the mass. Therefore, a black hole suitable for destroying a planet should weigh about the same as Everest. It's difficult to create one because it requires a certain amount of neutrons, but you can try to get by with a huge number of atomic nuclei squeezed together. Then you have to put a black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. The density of black holes is so high that they pass through ordinary matter like stone through air, so our hole will fall through the Earth, making its way through its center to the other side of the planet: the hole will swing back and forth like a pendulum. In the end, having absorbed enough matter, it will stop at the center of the Earth and “eat up” the rest. The probability of such a turn of events is very small. But it is no longer impossible. And in place of the Earth, a tiny object will remain, which will begin to revolve around the Sun, as if nothing had happened.

4. Will explode as a result of the reaction of matter and antimatter

We will need 2,500,000,000,000 antimatter - perhaps the most "explosive" substance in the universe. It can be obtained in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but it will take a long time to reach the required amount. You can come up with an appropriate mechanism, but it is much easier, of course, to simply “flip” 2.5 tril. tons of matter through the fourth dimension, turning it into antimatter in one fell swoop. The result will be a huge bomb that will immediately tear the Earth to pieces. How difficult is this to implement? The gravitational energy of the planetary mass (M) and the radius (P) are given by the formula E=(3/5)GM2/R. As a result, the Earth will require approximately 224 * 1010 joules. The sun generates that much for almost a week. To release that much energy, you need to destroy all 2.5 trills at the same time. tons of antimatter - provided that the loss of heat and energy will be zero, and this is unlikely to succeed, so the amount will have to be increased tenfold. And if so much antimatter still managed to get, it remains just to launch it to the Earth. As a result of the release of energy (the familiar law E = mc2), the Earth will shatter into thousands of pieces. In this place, an asteroid belt will remain, which will continue to revolve around the Sun. By the way, if you start producing antimatter right now, then, given modern technologies, by the year can be completed.

5. Will be destroyed by vacuum energy detonation

Don't be surprised: we'll need light bulbs. Modern scientific theories say that what we call a vacuum, in fact, cannot rightfully be called that, because particles and antiparticles are constantly created and destroyed in it in enormous quantities. This approach also implies that the space contained in any light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil any ocean on the planet. Consequently, vacuum energy may turn out to be one of the most accessible types of energy. All you have to do is figure out how to extract it from the light bulbs and use it in, say, a power plant (it's pretty easy to sneak in without arousing suspicion), start the reaction and let it get out of control. As a result, the released energy is enough to destroy everything on the planet Earth, possibly together with the Sun. A rapidly expanding cloud of particles of various sizes will appear in the place of the Earth. Of course, there is a probability of such a turn of events, but it is very small.

6. Get sucked into a giant black hole

What is needed is a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and possibly a large rocky planetary body. The black hole closest to our planet is located at a distance of 1,600 light years in the constellation Sagittarius, orbiting V4641. Everything is simple here - you just need to place the Earth and the black hole closer to each other. There are two ways to do this: either move the Earth in the direction of the hole, or the hole in the direction of the Earth, but it is more efficient, of course, to move both at once. It is very difficult to implement, but definitely possible. In place of the Earth, there will be a part of the mass of the black hole. The disadvantage is that it is too long to wait until the technologies arise that allow this to be done. Definitely not earlier than the year 3000, plus travel time - 800 years.

7. Carefully and systematically deconstructed

You will need a powerful electromagnetic catapult (ideally several) and access to about 2 * 1032 joules. Next, you need to take a large piece of the Earth at a time and launch it beyond the Earth's orbit. And so time after time to launch all 6 sextillion tons. The electromagnetic catapult is a kind of huge electromagnetic rail gun proposed several years ago for mining and transporting cargo from the Moon to Earth. The principle is simple - load material into the catapult and fire it in the right direction. To destroy the Earth, a particularly powerful model would have to be used to give the object an escape velocity of 11 km/s. Alternative methods for ejecting material into space involve space shuttles or a space elevator. The problem is that they require a titanic amount of energy. It would also be possible to build a Dyson sphere, but technology will probably make it possible to do this in about 5000 years. In principle, the process of throwing matter out of the planet can be started right now, humanity has already sent a lot of useful and not very objects into space, so before at a certain point, no one will even notice anything. Instead of the Earth, as a result, there will be many small pieces, some of which will fall on the Sun, and the rest will end up in all corners of the solar system. Oh, yes. The implementation of the project, taking into account the ejection from the Earth of a billion tons per second, will take 189 million years.

8. Will break into pieces under the impact of a blunt object

It will take a colossal heavy stone and something to push it. Basically, Mars is fine. The thing is, there's nothing that can't be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. Nothing at all. The concept is simple: you need to find a very, very large asteroid or planet, give it breathtaking speed and slam it into the Earth. The result will be that the Earth, like the object that hit it, will cease to exist - it will simply fall apart into several large pieces. If the impact was strong enough and accurate enough, then the energy from it would be enough for new objects to overcome mutual attraction and never gather into a planet again. The minimum allowable speed for an “impact” object is 11 km / s, so provided that energy losses will not, our object should have a mass of approximately 60% of the earth. Mars weighs approximately 11% of the earth's mass, but Venus, the closest planet to Earth, by the way, already weighs 81% of the earth's mass. If you disperse Mars harder, then it will also do, but Venus is already an almost ideal candidate for this role. The greater the speed of an object, the less mass it can have. For example, a 10*104 asteroid launched at 90% of the speed of light would be just as effective. Quite plausible. Instead of the Earth, there will be pieces of rock roughly the size of the Moon, scattered throughout the solar system.

9. Absorbed by a von Neumann machine

Only one von Neumann machine is needed - a device capable of creating a copy of itself from minerals. Build one that will run solely on iron, magnesium, aluminum or silicon - basically the basic elements found in the Earth's mantle or core. The size of the device does not matter - it can reproduce itself at any time. Next, you need to lower the machines under the earth's crust and wait until the two machines create two more, these - eight more, and so on. As a result, the Earth will be absorbed by a bunch of von Neumann machines, and they can be sent to the Sun using pre-prepared rocket boosters. This is such a crazy idea that it might even work. The Earth will turn into a large piece, gradually absorbed by the Sun. By the way, potentially such a machine can will be created in 2050 or even earlier.

10. Abandoned in the Sun

You will need special technologies for the movement of the Earth. The point is to throw the Earth into the Sun. However, it is not so easy to ensure such a collision, even if you do not set yourself the goal of hitting the planet exactly on the “target”. It is enough that the Earth is close to it, and then the tidal forces will tear it apart. The main thing is to prevent the Earth from entering an elliptical orbit. At our level of technology, this is impossible, but someday people will come up with a way. Or an accident could happen: an object will appear out of nowhere and push the Earth in the right direction. And from our planet there will be a small ball of evaporating iron, gradually sinking into the Sun. There is some probability that something similar will happen in 25 years: earlier, astronomers have already noticed suitable asteroids in space moving towards the Earth. But if we discard the random factor, then at the current level of technology development, humanity will not be able to do this until the year 2250.