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Anyone even remotely involved in it. A bitter bloody destructive war that shattered the nation, destroyed cities and vast areas of land and the South's economy, leaving dire poverty and hunger and around 2 million wounded on top of 600,000 dead. Your question is like someone suggesting the Hutus in Rwanda took machetes to their Tutsi neighbors and hacked them to death because it livened up block parties.

I sort of regret my earlier post, which was meant as a bit whimsical, suggesting that sugar was the most dangerous chemical. I did understand that danger, in the OP context, was meant in the sense of extremely toxic in tiny amounts and not "might give you pancreatitis or diabetes in a few decades of nonstop bingeing." I was offering it in the same way that someone will say mosquito when asked what's the world most dangerous animal. True answer, but often not what the asker had in mind. Danger must be defined, it having multiple meanings. Ask an electrician and they would probably say "squirrel." 🙂

I'm no chemist, but I would think nothing (or everything) is intrinsically 'deadly'. Doesn't the 'deadliness' come from level of exposure? In a small enough dose nothing will kill us, and in a large enough dose everything will kill us.

According to Wikipedia, nitrogen triiodide is more sensitive, being the only known chemical explosive that detonates when exposed to alpha particles and nuclear fission products. I doubt that. It is my understanding that the most toxic known substance is botulinum toxin, with an estimated human median lethal dose of 1.3–2.1 ng/kg Interestingly, what might actually be the strongest known acid, the only known acid to protonate carbon dioxide, carborane acid, is considered to be "gentle". I often walk past 1kg bags of sugar while shopping in a supermarket. I do so without any fear that my life is in danger. I can't exactly say the same about lithium-ion batteries in the home. And if I saw "chlorine trifluoride" written on a railway tanker somewhere, I think I would very much like to be somewhere else.

So some deadly esoteric chemical we're unlikely to ever come in contact with is more dangerous than the common but deadly chemical that is in nearly everything we eat?

Referendum decision making in governance is the fastest way to agree to increase government spending on social programs by 5,000% or more while in parallel agreeing to bring taxes down to zero. Because magic is how things get paid for apparently.

Before you can tax anyone, the money must first exist. There has to be an economy in place. First, you have an territory with a particular location, climate and geography. Next, you have in your territory a specific number of people of a particular ethnicity, demographic and culture. Start with the basics. Google Earth can help locate your fictional country. Once you have the place, you'll know the resources, settlement, energy and transportation options. Then, you have to invent or borrow a history for that nation. Was it always a sovereign nation, or is it and emancipated colony - if the latter, by what means was independence gained? Or is it uninhabited and you're leading a diaspora to settle it? Have you considered the form of government? You need a constitution to lay out the principles on which the country is governed. If you really want to do this thought-project, think like a world-builder.

Hi Janus These gifs are awesome. There is no easy way to say this. The movement - observed trajectory/ distance of light dot depends on two speeds. Speed of light c and speeds v1 - horizontal speed of red mirrors and v2=horizontal speed of blue mirrors . speed c is distance d=3x10e8m which light moves in 1 sec. v1 is distance d1 red mirror moves in 1 sec v2 is distance d2 blue mirrors moves in 1 sec. Now again these are two separate systems Movement of light dot inside the clock has constant distance and time of 1 sec. the speed of light c is constant . The distance between mirrors L=3x10e8m is the way to go to see that . The distance d1 and distance d2 are accomplished by something transporting the mirrors - train ,road ,space shuttle…… The mirrors can not move on their own. The overlook is that we have two Newtonian events happening at the same time . The interaction between these two systems is by changing distances between observer 1 And blue clock light dot. The light dot has one distance dc=3x10e8m And distance of d2 =1 m/s(for example) If these events are not simultaneous- the total time to travel distance dc+d2 =d t=3x10e8 +1 m the total time will be tt=2 sec I mean light dot travels 3x10e8 m for 1 second - stops than perpendicular to it blue mirrors transport the dot 1 m to the right in 1 sec. The total speed vt=dt/tt=300000001/2=1500000000.5m/s If these two distances are travelled at the same time the observed trajectory will be Hypotenuse of triangle created by dc and d2 Total dt^2=dc^2+d2^2 The total time tt=1 .42 s tan Alfa =d2/dc for time of 1 sec d=v we can see that tan Alfa =v2/c Than total vt on hypotenuse will be vt=c x tan alfa I used Newtonian physics to solve the theory of relativity problem. How ? Over look is that two systems observed are Newtonian events happening at the same time . And increase in distance in observed trajectory - was misunderstood as a time dilation.

I came up with one more thought experiment - this time there is 3 observers but instead of light clock that have flash lights and stop watches. The speed of light is the only speed we observe. The observed distance- trajectory is changing . speed is always constant . The time change is directly proportionate to change of distance - always . And there is no time change ,or speed change without change in distance (different trajectory) First picture - on the top shows that mirrors of light clock 2 moved to the right 1 m and the light dot of clock 2 is observed to be late (light dot is not in a position at mirror B of second light clock). The light dot of clock one - observed is to be touching mirror B of light clock one). That is why the clock 2 is observed to show slower time. And again this happens because trajectory Of light dot in clock 2 - distance increased.

I came up with one more thought experiment - this time there is 3 observers but instead of light clock that have flash lights and stop watches. The speed of light is the only speed we observe. The observed distance- trajectory is changing . speed is always constant . The time change is directly proportionate to change of distance - always . And there is no time change ,or speed change without change in distance (different trajectory)

From who's perspective?

It's too tiresome and boring.