Aestu wrote:
Dotzilla wrote:
exactly, there is no pressure in space. explosion implies a force moving particles outward. your molecules would simply move away from each other. not at any sort of accelerated rate.
Osmosis can be explosive. Put an icecube in boiling water. Same principle.
yeah i see what you're getting at but osmosis wouldn't apply here. no biological reactions would work because on the subatomic level, all the atoms would simply walk away from each other based on proven reactions between charmed quarks. of course, this process would not be instantaneous. there was a paper published on this phenomenon by renowned physicist Max Planck after Yuri Gagarin described what happened to a goldfish that he evacuated into space. (apparently the russians had enough sense to build rockets but not enough to bring recording equipment)
although, what would happen to something as complex as a human body has not been (thankfully) proven. i suppose it could explode. all i know about the subject is what Max Planck wrote. a rundown of his theory can be read here in layman's terms:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... ou-explode
i spend way too much time trying to be Aestu's friend. he doesn't like me.
edit: here is another interesting viewpoint, although the astrophysicist fails to explain the vast difference between 1 psi and 0 psi
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_a ... 70603.html