Could You Survive GHOSTBUSTERS?

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Jake (me) ain’t afraid of no ghost (but I actually am) as he finds out if you could survive being crushed by a giant marshmallow creature, wearing a portable nuclear accelerator on your back, and the potential cataclysmic reaction of crossing proton streams…while preventing the end of life as we know it on Earth.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Proton Packs and Particle Accelerators:
01:34:00

Jake and the Giant Marshmallow Foot
05:41:08

Square Cube Law and Overcranking
08:29:20

Molten Marshmallow Mania
11:03:04

ADDITIONAL LEARNING

● Cyclotrons and nuclear accelerators:
1) https://www.energy.gov/articles/how-particle-accelerators-work
2) https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/historic-facilities/cyclotron/cyclotron-operation/
3) https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/longform/how-ernest-o-lawrences-aha-moment-led-nuclear-physics
4) And if you want to make sure you’re licensing your accelerator properly: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/46/004/46004067.pdf?r=1&r=1

● Ground reaction force (i.e. foot pressure):
1) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.610.7846&rep=rep1&type=pdf
2) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1989.tb08655.x
3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2782094

● Square cube law:
1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5723864/
2) http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/
3) http://www.cosmicyarns.com/2015/05/you-need-not-fear-giant-ants.html

● Burn damage
1) http://ameriburn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/scaldinjuryeducatorsguide.pdf
2) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.887.1571&rep=rep1&type=pdf
3) https://www.nist.gov/el/fire-research-division-73300/firegov-fire-service/fire-dynamics
4) https://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Research/Files/RestaurantScaldBurns.pdf

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