Split water into hydrogen and oxygen, blast from particle accelerator across space

[GreenAce92]

I was wondering if you could split up water into hydrogen and oxygen, then run it through a particle accelerator like a cyclotron and send the particles across space like a laser to a receiver... assuming the atoms don't hit anything on there way to the receiver...

What do you think?

It would be crazy to build a simple demo on a table, that had two separate components transferring water by atomic-transmission... of course in that case a hose would do the job just as well.

Also how long would it take to produce a single teaspoon of water going this route? hahaha

 

[BradtheRad]

This thread hints at teleportation, doesn't it? Although we could shoot physical matter (atoms) at high speed into outer space, however it will encounter an invisible sea of photons, occupying every square inch, emanating from celestial objects in every direction. These impacts slow down physical matter.

How can photons push or prod matter, we ask? It's a concept which is not easily testable, but experiments have proven that sunlight on a huge sail in space, could accelerate it to a high speed.

 

[GreenAce92]

This thread hints at teleportation, doesn't it? Although we could shoot physical matter (atoms) at high speed into outer space, however it will encounter an invisible sea of photons, occupying every square inch, emanating from celestial objects in every direction. These impacts slow down physical matter.

How can photons push or prod matter, we ask? It's a concept which is not easily testable, but experiments have proven that sunlight on a huge sail in space, could accelerate it to a high speed.

Right light imparts momentum.

I wasn't really trying to go towards teleportation unless that is what I described. Usually when I hear of "teleportation "somehow" item goes from point a to b instantly... how? quantum mechanics? ha uncertainty-principle

This was literally shooting water at an atomic scale, like a spray gun... I guess do the math right, check how the momentum imparted by light on a high-mass particle comparatively of hydrogen or oxygen would have... I suppose even a slight deviation would miss entirely, but I don't know... just curious. Just the thought of trying to recreate water from a small group of atoms, to what you can actually use like pour into a cup... ehh... just another hair brained idea

 

[c_mitra]

Atoms cannot be accelerated in a particle accelerator because atoms are neutral. They need to be converted into ions first. But that is beside the point; they already have the molecular velocities that are close to (well, well) the escape velocity!

The earth's atmosphere is a thick blanket that helps stuff to stay back on earth...

 

[betwixt]

To further complicate things, Earth (assuing thats where you live!) is moving at relatively high speeds, it would take some precision targetting to aim from a moving source to a potentially moving target , especially if there are significant distances between them. Imagine shooting your straight jet of atoms (or ions) and them landing in a line drawn at thousands of Km per hour.

Brian.

 

[c_mitra]

To further complicate things, Earth (assuing thats where you live!) is moving at relatively high speeds, .

True. Earth has two motions, one about its own axis (daily rotation) and once a year rotation about the sun (annual rotation). But the sun is not stationary, it is part of the Milky way galaxy, about 2/3 way from the center and this is a rotating galaxy (velocity of the sun about the center of the galaxy is about 200 km/s, not a negligible number, in addition to the sun's own rotation about its own axis). But then the Milky way galaxy itself is not stationary, it is moving at a rate given by Hubble's law...

The trick is to use dynamics, follow the target and extrapolate.

 

[strongdragon]

I can somehow relate to this thread but not detailed as what you are talking about. I am Hyperbaric nurse, part of our job is to calculate mixtures of gases such as Hydrogen and Oxygen.