{"id":189749,"date":"2010-02-17T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/17\/please-check-my-math\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:26:00","slug":"please-check-my-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/17\/please-check-my-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Check My Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Kwak in discussing Barack Obama&#8217;s putative deficit reduction panel, which is supposed to seat people from both sides of the aisle to address the deficit, asks the following question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/2010\/02\/17\/more-on-mankiw\/#comment-44051\">What if they put Mankiw and Krugman on this commission<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, let us assume that both Greg Mankiw and Paul Krugman mass 75 kg.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to characterize them as the economic equivalents of anti-matter and matter, so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>e=mc<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>M=75+75=150 kg<\/li>\n<li>e=1.35&#215;10<sup>19<\/sup>joules<\/li>\n<li>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TNT_equivalent\">the wiki<\/a>, a megaton is 4.184&#215;10<sup>15<\/sup> joules<\/li>\n<li>This gives <sup>1.35&#215;10<sup>19<\/sup> joules<\/sup>\/<sub>4.184&#215;10<sup>15<\/sup> <sup>joules<\/sup>\/<sub>megaton<\/sub><\/sub> = 3226.5 megatons of energy released.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that this places the idea of placing both of them on the same panel as &#8220;imprudent&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Kwak in discussing Barack Obama&#8217;s putative deficit reduction panel, which is supposed to seat people from both sides of the aisle to address the deficit, asks the following question, &#8220;What if they put Mankiw and Krugman on this commission?&#8221; Well, let us assume that both Greg Mankiw and Paul Krugman mass 75 kg. It&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,1038,973,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-budget","category-economy","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}