Oops…I think I got that backwards. The universe should be lighter than 10[sup]82[/sup] kilograms.
No sweat! You could do it for free! You need to do either one of two things. First, prove God wrong. Since God is infallible this will unmake all existence. Second, Find proof that God exists. If you find proof that he exists, he will cease to exist because the proof would undermine all faith in him. No god, No universe! Simple, ain’t it?
Of course this all depends on there being a God which I don’t believe either way.
This seems like your best bet to me:
All you need to do is kidnap some particle physicists and force them to tell you how to refine the process of producing a negatively charged strangelet. Then seize the Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and make one.
I wonder what would happen if the entire mass of the sun was converted into strangelets. Perhaps that would be enough to infect nearby stars and start a chain reaction.
Similar to Armacham’s theory you could discover and solve all of the mysteries in the universe. This is said to make the universe obsolete and it will disappear…but there is bad news. If the universe is destroyed using this method (or any most likely) it will regenerate as an even more bizzare and unexplainable universe. (you wont be there to see it though) So the fact of the matter is…you can’t win…kill off one and another takes its place. The universe is like a cockroach…the little buggers can withstand anything and keep coming back. This also brings up a question of alternate realities…if our reality is gone then will another take its place? and if so will there be another to take that ones place if it is destroyed? so on and so forth yada yada yada
Cheezy radio DJ voice:
“It’s 8:35 in the PM here at Smooth Classic Rock 99 – The Smoothie … Next up, we have a request from an up and coming mad scientist for a tune that will turn the Universe on its ear, and quite possibly its ass! Ha, ha, ha! But seriously folks, here is Jim Anticroce with a remix of his Smooth 99 Classic, “If I Could Keep Time/Space in a Bottle”…
“If I could keep Time/Space in a Bottle,
The first thing that I’d like to do,
Is to save, every day,
And then blow the mother-lovin’ shit out of youuuuuuuuuuu…”
- I cornholed Hammurabi - now I walk funny
The Jabberwock writes:
This ever happens again, babe, Cecil and I will (a) PERSONALLY underwrite your legal expenses, (b) come down and explain this to her in words of one syllable, or © kill the ignorant slut, whichever in our sole opinion seems cheapest and least likely to get us life in prison at the time.
I feel your pain Jabborwock…My chem teacher last year was a few beers short of a 6-pack herself and had to be constantly corrected about nearly everything on a daily basis. To make it worse she refused to stop talking about her personal life… This is what real pain is. I do belive there should be an IQ administered before anyone is allowed to procreate.
Ed Zotti writes:
“This ever happens again, babe, Cecil and I will (a) PERSONALLY underwrite your legal expenses, (b) come down and explain this to her in words of one syllable, or © kill the ignorant slut, whichever in our sole opinion seems cheapest and least likely to get us life in prison at the time.”
Better yet Ed, join The People’s Federalist Party of Ultimate Destruction. You can be our candidate for President. That’ll learn her.
The whole universe will destroyed.
Check my new sig.
::Reads majinborg’s sig::
Yes… yes I see!! With an elevator like that you could repeatedly press the button, gaining more and more speed until it smashed into the ground, disrupting the Earth’s orbit and sending it into the Sun! BWA-HAHA!
::Reads further::
oh.
Ok, then how about this?
- Spend the 83 dollars on a high quality shovel.
- Start digging in an arbitrary country.
- Move all of the dirt you displace from this location to another location, on the exact opposite side of the world.
- Continue for a long time.
- In time you will have an enormous crater, the size of the country or bigger. You will also have an enormous mountain on the opposite side of the planet. As they grow, it will eventually be enough to shift the Earth’s center of gravity, disrupting its rotation and orbit.
6)Enjoy the demise of Earth!
[QUOTE
- Spend the 83 dollars on a high quality shovel.
- Start digging in an arbitrary country.
- Move all of the dirt you displace from this location to another location, on the exact opposite side of the world.
- Continue for a long time.
- In time you will have an enormous crater, the size of the country or bigger. You will also have an enormous mountain on the opposite side of the planet. As they grow, it will eventually be enough to shift the Earth’s center of gravity, disrupting its rotation and orbit.
6)Enjoy the demise of Earth! **[/QUOTE]
hay, if you do this, maybe the earth WILL fall over.
How about some sort of gigantic orbital electromagnet, big enough to pull the Earth’s iron core out of the planet, and into space? Granted, an electromagnet THAT big would be able to wreck havoc on the Earth just from it’s own gravitational effects, to say nothing of actually powering it, but maybe you can work with the basic concept. 
Ranchoth
Heck, if we go with the “9 Billion Names of God” and the Douglas Adams If-you-figure-out-the-Universe-it-will-disappear theme, maybe just figuring out how by the soiled trousers of Argus this thread has managed to stay in General Questions will do it.
I object to this in the strongest terms. We have no evidence that she is a slut.
Carry on.
You need some reinforcement where you dump that pile. Any mountain somewhat higher than the Himalaya would just sink into the ground. The thin crust of the planet underneath won’t support it. Not that it would change the orbit anyway, the momentum has to go somewhere, doesn’t it? Maybe if we keep throwing little pieces of dirt at the sun… 
OK, I’ve been thinking about this. The best I can figure, the cheapest method we could use to destroy the Earth, using established scientific and technological principles, would go something like this:
1: Launch a number of unmanned spacecraft, containing plutonium RTGs, into orbit.
2: Send them out to the Oort Cloud, possibly via gravitational slingshots via Mars and/or Jupiter (similar to what the Voyagers did).
3: Once there, attach the RTGs to appropriately-sized comets (probably a large number of relatively small ones, but I haven’t done the optimization calculation), and use the heat from the RTGs to eject jets of vapor from the comets.
4: Use these jets to shift the orbits of the comits, putting them into a high-eccentricity retrograde orbit, tangent to the Earth’s orbit.
5: Time your comet-rockets properly to collide head-on with the Earth, thus slowing it.
6: As the Earth is slowed, it’ll shift into a more eccentric orbit, with apohelion at 1 AU and a decreased perihelion.
7: When the perihelion reaches the Roche limit of the Sun, tidal forces will break the planet apart into a ring of material around the Sun.
8: With time, collisions between the chunks of debris, and various other influences, will result in most of the remains of the former planet being captured by the Sun.
To calculate the costs, we’d need to figure the energy needed to disrup enough comets, the amount of plutonium needed to provide that energy, and the amount of fuel needed to get that much plutonium out to the Oort cloud. Our costs are then the cost of getting that amount of mass into low Earth orbit, the cost of the plutonium, and the cost of detailed planning and design. Other costs will probably be negligible in comparison to these. At a guess, I’d say that this is probably within the economic reach of the United States, provided we were truely dedicated to the cause, but I’d have to do the calculation to be sure. Also note that this would take a heck of a long time: The Voyagers haven’t even gotten to the heliopause yet after 30 years, and the Oort cloud is much further away (approximately a lightyear, if I recall correctly).
Would it be possible to construct a device that when launched into the Sun, would cause the Sun to destabilize and explode?
Hmmm…perhaps if you were able to find some way of binding up the hydrogen that the sun uses as nuclear fuel, or, alternately, found some way of RAISING the temperature enough that Helium fusion begins prematurely…
On a related topic, the movie “Solar Crisis” used an antimatter weapon to prevent a giant solar flare from incinerating the Earth…perhaps you could do the opposite? Or perhaps, use said flare to hit Venus or Mercury like a cosmic pool cue, sending them careening into Earth’s orbit. Possibly to a collision with Earth.
Or something. Whatever.
Ranchoth
The Sun is really, really stable right now, and will be for a while. If you heated it up a lot, it would expand and cool down, until it reached equilibrium again. If you tried to cool it, the cooling would contract the sun, and it would heat up.
I can’t imagine any object accessible to humans that would do anything noticible to the Sun. (except possibly weird stuff like strangelets and black holes, as mentioned earlier)
No, NO, NO!
You guys have it all wrong.
The only thing you need to do to destroy the earth is make Microsoft bankrupt.
Muahahahahahahahahaha!