Normally, I wouldn't ask Grok-4 Hypothetical Religious Questions
... but this seemed like a good use of A.I. analysis and modelling.

[Poll] What's Your Opinion on the Following "Ancient Event" Description?

RE: Sodom and Gomorrah and Science and Time Travel Hazards

[Grok 4 Response]
Theoretical Description of the Time Travel Blast Event
This scenario reimagines the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as a temporal anomaly: a mass-to-energy conversion triggered by time travelers departing, releasing energy equivalent to the Hiroshima bomb (~15 kilotons TNT, or 6.3 × 10^13 joules). The initial blast mimics a nuclear detonation but quickly evolves into a "time dissipation sphere" where 90% of the energy is siphoned back to the future over 100 seconds, distributed across 2000+ years. The sphere's 300-meter radius creates a localized "time sink," pulling energy forward temporally, leading to extreme cooling inside (near absolute zero, ~0 K) as thermal energy vanishes, condensing air into liquid nitrogen/oxygen. Outside, escaping energy (10%) behaves like a conventional blast wave.

The blast cloud starts as a classic mushroom but distorts due to the dissipation: The sphere acts as an energy vacuum, inverting the cloud's expansion and creating a "imploding torus" shape. Over five minutes, the event unfolds in phases, blending nuclear physics with hypothetical temporal mechanics. I'll describe it chronologically, focusing on visual/atmospheric effects.

⏰ Timeline of the Event (First Five Minutes)

0-2 Seconds: Initial Blast Phase

• The travelers' departure converts 0.7 kg of mass (calculated via E = mc², where E is the bomb-equivalent energy and c is 3 × 10^8 m/s) into pure energy, manifesting as a point-source explosion at ground level. A brilliant flash illuminates the cities, followed by a rapidly expanding fireball (100m radius in 1 second). The shockwave levels structures within 1 km, igniting fires and ejecting debris. The blast cloud forms a standard mushroom: A dense, roiling stem of superheated dust and vapor rises 500-1000m, topped by a cap of condensing water vapor and ionized air, glowing orange-red from thermal radiation. Temperatures peak at 10^6 K at the core, vaporizing everything within 50m. No "time dissipation" yet - pure kinetic/thermal chaos, with winds >500 km/h.

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2-102 Seconds: Time Dissipation Activation (100-Second Phase)

• The 300m radius sphere activates, creating a shimmering boundary (visible as a refractive distortion, like heat haze but iridescent from temporal shearing). Inside, 90% of the energy begins siphoning forward in time, causing rapid cooling: Temperatures plummet to near 0 K in 10-20 seconds, freezing air into liquid droplets that rain down as cryogenic fog. The cloud inverts - the mushroom cap collapses inward toward the sphere, forming a "toroidal implosion" (donut-shaped cloud) as outer material rushes in to fill the energy vacuum. Escaping energy (10%) radiates outward, sustaining peripheral fires and shock effects up to 5 km. Debris caught in the boundary "flickers" temporally, appearing to phase in/out. By 102 seconds, the sphere dissipates, leaving a 300m crater of flash-frozen ground, with ~0.63 kg of mass-equivalent energy returned to the future (spread over 2000 years, potentially as minor anomalies like unexplained radiation spikes).

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102 Seconds - 2 Minutes: Stabilization and Secondary Effects

• The cloud stabilizes as a flattened, dissipating plume, no longer mushroom-shaped but a low-lying, swirling vortex from the inward pull. Winds reverse briefly (inflow to the former sphere), extinguishing some fires while fanning others outside the radius. Liquid air evaporates explosively, creating secondary blasts (like boiling liquid nitrogen), scattering frost and ice shards. Visibility drops to near zero in a 1 km fog bank from condensed moisture. Surviving structures groan under thermal stress, with cracks forming from rapid cooling/heating cycles.

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2-4 Minutes: Dispersion and Environmental Impact

• The cloud rises and diffuses into a stratified layer (stem remnants at 500m, cap fragments at 1-2 km), carried by winds as a hazy pall over the region. Radioactive-like fallout (though temporal, not nuclear) settles: Fine dust mixed with condensed elements, salting the soil and rendering it infertile (echoing biblical "brimstone and salt" ). Localized weather anomalies occur - thunder from ionized air, or brief hail from supercooled droplets. The crater steams as residual heat meets frozen ground, forming a temporary lake of melted ice and debris.

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4-5 Minutes: Aftermath Consolidation

• The cloud fully disperses into a thin haze, revealing widespread devastation: Flattened cities within 1 km, partial collapse up to 3 km, and firestorms beyond. The energy sink's legacy is a "dead zone" in the 300m sphere - barren, with anomalous temporal effects like accelerated decay (e.g., wood aging centuries in minutes). Escaped energy sustains lingering fires, while the returned 90% might manifest in the future as dispersed bursts (e.g., gamma rays over millennia).
• In total, 0.7 kg of mass "disappears" via conversion (equivalent to the bomb's yield), with 90% (0.63 kg) temporally displaced and 10% (~0.07 kg) remaining as local destruction. This model blends nuclear physics with speculative time mechanics, where the "bad side-effect" creates a unique, imploding cloud unlike standard mushrooms.
• Explain mass-energy conversion physics
• Time travel paradoxes in physics

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[My Original Prompt to Grok 4]

People know the typical "Mushroom Cloud" from a Nuclear Weapon Explosion, but I want a different theoretical blast/cloud outcome. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed by a "blast" equal to the WW2 bombs in Japan. However, the explosion is a "Bad Side-Effect" of Time Travel. The moment travelers return to their future, there is a Mass-to-Energy Conversion. For two seconds, the blast energy affects the cities, and then a 300 meter radius of "Time Dissipation" begins. Lasting for 100 seconds, it ends with 90% of the blast energy returned to the future, generally spread over more than 2000 years. Energy that escapes the 300m radius remains in the Time-Stream of the cities. Inside the "blast sphere", temperature might drop to near absolute-zero (since massive amounts of energy return forward in time), the air would condense to liquid. Describe five minutes of this event, with the shape and behavior of the blast cloud. How much Mass "disappeared"?