stackyFACTSIn physics, the best way to figure out how strong something is, is to force it to run into a wall and explode. Calorimeters measure the total energy of a particle by forcing it into a dense block and calculating the resulting heat or light. It is scientific measurement via absolute, calculated destruction.
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