How much energy did the Thanos snap release, approximately?

[Maximum7]

In Avengers: Infinity Wars Thanos had the Infinity Gauntlet and when he snapped his fingers it wiped out 50% of life in the universe. Roughly, how much energy do you think the snap generated assuming the universe IS finite in size (since an infinite universe cannot have any percentage) AND the universe has planets with life on it in a medium-amount? Meaning life isn’t ultra rare but it isn’t like every habitable planet in every galaxy has life.

I’m looking for a rough estimate. In joules (preferably)

 

[Grelbr42]

And how much energy does it take to de-rez one individual? And how many individuals are there?

 

[russ_watters]

I don't think this as answerable since there is no way to know the size/amount of life or what happened to it. So it depends entirely on anyone's choice of approach and assumptions.

 

[Maximum7]

And how much energy does it take to de-rez one individual? And how many individuals are there?

I’m not entirely sure

 

[BWV]

Didn't the effect of the snap travel faster than light? So how would you even begin to start?

 

[Drakkith]

I'm taking the easy way out and just defining the answer to be equal to one Thanosnap, where a Thanosnap is the energy required to vaporize half of all life in the universe.

 

[phinds]

Why does it need to take any energy at all? It it IS magic, after all.

 

[DaveC426913]

phinds (sort of) has a point. There's no reason to think any energy was released. They didn't blow up; they simply turned to dust. Maybe all the snap did was spirit the H2O molecules away, leaving the atoms to just blow away in the breeze. That's a plausible fit to observation.

 

[phinds]

phinds (sort of) has a point.

Hm ... Gramatically, what you have said is that I am only sort of phinds. I'm pretty sure I'm the real thing.

 

[DaveC426913]

Sort-of-phinds has a point.

 

[Ibix]

dhinps is a sort of phinds.

 

[Vanadium 50]

one Thanosnap,

Or 100 centithanossnaps for those who prefer cgs.

 

[Rive]

Roughly, how much energy do you think the snap generated assuming the universe IS finite in size

Waste of brain cells to make sense to nonsense, but anyway, here is my take: since it was not some death wave but a transition between different states of a fairly closed system, after deducting the sufficient amount of magic involved zero should be just as sufficient answer as anything else.