Just some straightforward questions:
How much energy is released in a supernova?
How much energy was released in the big bang?
I have a couple of bucks riding on this so if you have links please include them as well.
Thanks in advance
This site says about 10^46 Joules. It’s near the end.
All the energy in the universe was released during the Big Bang. If we take the critical density to be the actual energy density of the universe (there are some theoretical reasons for saying this) given here, at the middle of the page and the current estimation of the size of the universe [url=http://casswww.ucsd.edu/physics/ph7/scale.html] we can calculate the amount of “mass” of the universe to be about 10^49 kg… converting to energy using E=mc^2 we get approximately 10^66 Joules.
These are all back of the envelope calculations. Feel free to check my quick math.
Thanks, that’s what I was looking for.
Sadly however, neither of us was very close in our guesses, so by mutual agreement the bet was not won by either.