Like, obviously they would die immediately. But I’m wondering, would they be ripped to subatomic shreds? Would they somehow manage to set off a small nuclear explosion? Would they just get cooked as they’re propelled into the void?
Quasars are some of the most energetic objects in the known universe. That jet is made of high energy X-rays and gamma rays and would probably convert a human body to ionized particles very quickly.
Does that mean they like evaporate? Incinerate?
Disintegrate
Ionate
To shreds you say
Only one way to find out
A simulation!
All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
Ever hold a strong flashlight up to your hand and see your bones outlined in red? Like that, only… more.
This kills the human.
they would be unalived before they knew what hit them
Well yeah, but the question is how. It’s interesting to think about because we have no idea exactly. You can be unalived from bumping your head wrong, just dying in itself is unimpressive.
Also: my new favorite death representative wording is “meeting his end credits” that’s just a side, but it sounds way more fun, especially if the person really deserves it.
He game ended is still a classic as well.
That is a good one.
I mean, technically you’re in one right now. Some of them just randomly point in our direction. But I’m sure you mean up close.
It’s particles going a significant fraction of the speed of light, but you may well have a few of those going through you as we speak. I don’t know how much is known about how wide they are exactly, or how dense, but it’s possible you’d die slowly from radiation poisoning rather than of anything more dramatic.
Some things look a lot more impressive from far away, like nebulae, which are almost perfect vacuums that are just a bit less perfect than their surroundings.
The quasar wouldn’t do anything that the vacuum hadn’t already done…
You can actually survive a vacuum pretty well, until you asphyxiate.
