Name: 如果太陽的所有能量都聚焦在一處會怎樣？！ (What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place?)
Uploaded: 2025-11-16T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 51 s

基礎被動語態

What if all the Sun's output of visible light were bundled up into a laser-like beam that had a diameter of around one meter once it reached the Earth?"

「如果把太陽所有可見光輸出全部集中成一束類似雷射的光束，抵達地球時直徑只有大約一公尺，會怎樣？」

You know, I usually assume the best of people, but I'll be honest,

你知道，我通常都會往好處想，但老實說，

I suspect Max might not have Earth's best interests in mind.

我懷疑 Max 可能沒有替地球著想。

If you were standing in the path of the beam, you would obviously die pretty quickly.

如果你站在光束路徑上，你顯然會非常快就死掉。

You wouldn't really die of anything in the traditional sense.

但你並不會以傳統意義上的方式死去。

You would just stop being biology and start being physics.

你只是會從「生物」變成「物理現象」。

The Earth receives about 0.004% as much energy from the sun in an entire day as the sun emits every second.

地球在整整一天內接收到的太陽能量，大約只有太陽每秒所釋放能量的 0.004%。

If Max's beam were only focused down narrowly enough to cover the entire Earth,

如果 Max 的光束只集中到剛好覆蓋整個地球的程度，

it would still deliver almost 2 billion times the normal amount of solar power to each point on the Earth's surface.

它仍然會讓地球表面每個地點接收到幾乎是正常太陽能量的 20 億倍。

And Max wants to concentrate all of that into a single square meter.

而 Max 想把所有能量集中在一平方公尺上。

When the beam of light hit the atmosphere, it would heat the air to millions of degrees in a fraction of a second,

當這束光打到大氣時，會在不到一秒內把空氣加熱到數百萬度，

turning into a plasma, which would start dumping its heat as a flood of X-rays.

把空氣變成電漿，並開始釋放大量 X 光。

Those X-rays would heat up the air around them, which would turn to plasma itself, albeit a cooler plasma,

那些 X 光會加熱周圍的空氣，使其也變成電漿，雖然比較冷一些，

The radiation would vaporize everything in sight and start stripping away the Earth's surface.

這些輻射會汽化眼前的一切，並開始剝離地球表面物質。

Like a hydrogen bomb, only much more violent.

就像氫彈一樣，只是更暴力得多。

But the the Earth is big enough to protect people on the other side, at least for a bit, from the direct effects of the sunbeam.

但地球夠大，能讓另一側的人暫時不受光束的直接影響。

Twilight or moonlight, it depends on the details.

暮光，或月光——這要看細節而定。

Twilight is light from the out-of-sight sun that reaches you by scattering off the atmosphere.

暮光是從看不見的太陽散射到大氣後抵達你的光。

When Max's sunbeam hit the Earth, everything from infrared radiation to X-rays would flood into the atmosphere, turning into plasma.

當 Max 的光束打到地球時，從紅外線到 X 光的一切都會灌入大氣，把它變成電漿。

Plasma is relatively transparent to X-rays, so those would pass through and dump their energy into the non-plasma air around it,

電漿對 X 光相當透明，因此 X 光會穿過，並把能量釋放到非電漿的大氣層中，

heating it enough to give off its own substantial thermal radiation.

把空氣加熱到足以釋放大量熱輻射。

In general, a lot of this radiation would escape into space, where we don't need to worry about it.

一般來說，很多輻射會逃逸到太空，那些我們不用擔心。

Unless the Earth's reflected back to Earth.

Unfortunately, a portion of the radiation would stay within the atmosphere.

不幸的是，有部分輻射會留在大氣中。

A bubble of heat and light would wrap around the Earth, a twilight inferno, rapidly heating the atmosphere and surface as it went.

一個熱與光的泡泡會包覆地球，一個暮光煉獄，迅速加熱大氣與地表。

What's more, much of the matter around the sunbeam's contact point would be blasted into space,

更糟的是，光束接觸點附近的大量物質會被炸到太空中，

where it would reflect infrared light back down beyond the horizon.

它們會把紅外線反射回地球地平線之外的地方。

Exactly how quickly the devastation would make it around the Earth depends on many details of atmospheric scattering.

這些破壞繞到地球另一側的速度取決於許多大氣散射細節。

But if the Moon happened to be half full at the time, it might not even matter.

但如果那時月亮剛好是半月，情況可能更糟。

When Max's device kicked in, the Moon would go dark, since the sunlight illuminating it would be funneled into the beam that's destroying the atmosphere.

當 Max 的裝置啟動時，月亮會變黑，因為照亮月亮的陽光全被集中進那束毀滅大氣的光裡。

The intense light from the destruction would itself, however, illuminate the Moon.

然而，那場毀滅本身產生的強光會照亮月亮。

And this reflected moonlight alone could be enough to burn you to death.

而光是這些反射的月光，就足以把你活活燒死。

Just in time for the incendiary twilight to wrap around the planet, bringing on one final sunrise.

就在暮光地獄繞到整個地球、帶來最後一次日出之前。

Can Max's mechanism actually swivel to track a target?

Max 的機制是不是能旋轉追蹤目標？

If not, the Earth can only spend a maximum of about seven minutes in the path of the beam before our orbit carries us out of the way.

如果不能，地球最多只能有大約七分鐘待在光束路徑上，之後軌道會帶我們脫離那一線。

Everyone on the surface would still be cooked, of course,

當然，地表上的每個人還是會被烤熟，

and much of the atmosphere and exterior would be lost.

而且大氣與外層物質會損失大量。

But the bulk of the Earth would probably remain as a testament to humanity's horrible ideas.

但地球大部分仍可能存留，作為人類糟糕點子的紀念碑。