For a rough calculation, here are my assumptions:
- A champagne cork leaves the bottle at around 400 m/s^2
- Approximate mass of 30g for the cork
- World population of 7 billion
- 75cl bottle champagne

So the force of one cork = 12N
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For a rough calculation, here are my assumptions:
- A champagne cork leaves the bottle at around 400 m/s^2
- Approximate mass of 30g for the cork
- World population of 7 billion
- 75cl bottle champagne

So the force of one cork = 12N

7 billion * 12N = 84GN

to put into perspective 1 Space shuttle launch = 40MN

So this would be the equivalent of 2100 space shuttles being fired in the opposite direction to the Earth's spin.

Now read this article...

http://space.newscientist.com/...

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I dont think the effect of the corks popping would be great enough to have any signifacnt seismic effect...

As for the 5.25 billion litres of champagne.... the Amazon drains 300,000 m^3 of water into the Atlantic at the height of rainy season, which is equivalent to 0.3bn litres... in other words, about 15 seconds for the Amazon to drain all that champagne...

These are 'back of a cigarette packet' calculations, but I think it goes some way to showing that we would all have to get a lot more wasted to slow the Earth down... Despite this, I am willing to try!

If every person popped a bottle at the same time the sound of the popping would be almost nil, being that there is appox. 7 billion people and the aveage sound of of cork popping is about 30 feet. The average space between people would be somewhere about 20 acres. So the only popping you would hear would be the cork you popped. There would be no platonic, tectonic or siezmic effects. Also there would be no repeatative resounding over 17 h 30 mins, since it all happened in a single moment. As for how much champaign flow ...

If every person popped a bottle at the same time the sound of the popping would be almost nil, being that there is appox. 7 billion people and the aveage sound of of cork popping is about 30 feet. The average space between people would be somewhere about 20 acres. So the only popping you would hear would be the cork you popped. There would be no platonic, tectonic or siezmic effects. Also there would be no repeatative resounding over 17 h 30 mins, since it all happened in a single moment. As for how much champaign flow to swim in, well unless you like wallowing on wet ground there wouldn't be any being that the average bottle of Champ is 750 ml roughly a quart would be quickly absorbed into the ground. There may be alot of drunk fish once it all hit the water supply at one time. But being that champaign is about 12% alcohol it would quickly dilute with the water, being that the earth is covered in 3/4 of it. There would only be around 9.34 million gallons of bubbly mixed with countless trillions or quadrillions of water, making it about .00000934 parts per million. You might raise sea level a few inches at best.

Calculation Factors would be:
7 Billion people
Lateral surface area of the earth, S=4(pi r square) / 25
Earth is approximaetly 14,000 miles in diameter. P=S/7 billion
P=Area per person

Volume of the water on earth V=4(pi r square) / 3 , V/25x3

7 billion bottles of 750 ml = 9.3 milion gallons
Volume of bubbly added into volume of ocean water.


(calculations are guestimated off the top of my head.)

The bottle of champagne: A volcano erupts explosively for the same reason that a too-hastily-opened bottle of champagne spews out much of its contents. As magma nears the surface, built-up pressure is suddenly released, causing dissolved gases to come out of solution and expand explosively. In champagne, something similar happens when the cork is popped.

After beginning with an overview of Earth's place in the universe, you mov...

The bottle of champagne: A volcano erupts explosively for the same reason that a too-hastily-opened bottle of champagne spews out much of its contents. As magma nears the surface, built-up pressure is suddenly released, causing dissolved gases to come out of solution and expand explosively. In champagne, something similar happens when the cork is popped.

After beginning with an overview of Earth's place in the universe, you move directly to the most important unifying concept ever developed in the science of geology: plate tectonics. An understanding of this beautiful idea places other topics such as mountain building and seismology in crystal-clear perspective.

With this "big picture" introduction complete, you shift to the microworld of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles to gain a basic understanding of minerals, which are the building blocks of rocks and soils. From there you move to the three types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

Granitic magma very rarely rises to the surface, but when it does, it produces an eruption of unimaginable violence—and also why the marker for such an event having occurred in the past is a fine grained rock called rhyolite.

Equipped with knowledge of both the large and small scales, you then venture into the field to explore: volcanism, mass wasting, weathering and soils, the sculpting of the land, groundwater, rock deformation and geologic structures, earthquakes, mountains, and the economic geology of coal and petroleum.

Due to differing magma chemistry, volcanoes along the margin of colliding plates are much more dangerous than those where plates are pulling apart. The former include Mount Saint Helens in the United States and Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, among many others. The latter include the numerous active volcanoes on Iceland, which rarely harm anyone.

This would do nothing. But if everyone were to drink the whole bottle after opening it, the world would need to take a day off to recover from a hang over, thus creating yet another new holiday "Hang Over Day"

I wonder what kind of weather we would get after someting like this? With all that CO2 being released from all those bottles!...

This would do nothing. But if everyone were to drink the whole bottle after opening it, the world would need to take a day off to recover from a hang over, thus creating yet another new holiday "Hang Over Day"

I wonder what kind of weather we would get after someting like this? With all that CO2 being released from all those bottles!If I'm being washed out to sea, can I take Ginger instead? Oh, and a few cases of rum too!

I think this is a fascinating question, actually. But thinking of the logistics it seems nearly impossible to get every person in the world involved. I would recommend a test data sample. Say 100 of us could get together and pop the champagne in a carefully orchestrated synchronize way. Then we could multiply the findings to estimate an answer. Let me know when and where (wink).

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I think this is a fascinating question, actually. But thinking of the logistics it seems nearly impossible to get every person in the world involved. I would recommend a test data sample. Say 100 of us could get together and pop the champagne in a carefully orchestrated synchronize way. Then we could multiply the findings to estimate an answer. Let me know when and where (wink).

Actually, this is the type of question that is best answered on the big screen at the movie theater... since it can be perfectly orchestrated and illustrate several possible outcomes.

Thanks for asking a question that can stimulate the minds of so many tired of hearing the mundane. This is a fun one to follow!

a sound wave created by the champagne would cause a earthquake level 1 on the richter scale....

a sound wave created by the champagne would cause a earthquake level 1 on the richter scale.Well first, there would be a sound wave which would cause either an earthquake or a volcanic eruption if it's a volcanic eruption then that would cause the sun being blocked by the smoke and you know that will cause an ice age like when the dinosaurs died out.if it's an earthquake it will then lead to an eruption and then that will cause what i said before.plus the damage of an earthquake. :) hope this is what you are looking for, by the way i already read the message you left me!! :)

I highly doubt you would be able to measure any seizmic/platonic/tectonic differencies..

Quite frankly I doubt that it would be possible unless you festened a great deal (or all) the bottles on 1 big apparateur, and making the bottles pop on the EXACT same time, thus making the preasure released from the bottles being popped constant and united. Instead of single people holding a singl...

I highly doubt you would be able to measure any seizmic/platonic/tectonic differencies..

Quite frankly I doubt that it would be possible unless you festened a great deal (or all) the bottles on 1 big apparateur, and making the bottles pop on the EXACT same time, thus making the preasure released from the bottles being popped constant and united. Instead of single people holding a single bottle at a time, which would result in the energy being absorbed by the people holding the bottles and also into the ground.

That said, I still doubt it would be possible to make any seizmic/platonic/tectonic effects.

Champagne is wine. Geotectronics can be compared to bubble foam women since volcanic hotsprings bubbles out of both .

did u actually sit and think of this and it was good that u covered all the bases as in drinking age excluded

If I open a champagne bottle and indulge in one sip, I wouldn't even notice what happened to the earth, tectonically or otherwise. Two sips and I wouldn't care :)