How much energy would it take to part the Red Sea?

[Dov]

While thinking about special relativity again today and the relationship between matter and energy, I came up with some interesting ideas.

First of all, we have the laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy.

This means that there is a finite amount of energy in the universe. This, in and of itself, should preclude speed of light travel (for anything with intrinsic mass) because you would need infinite energy to propel an infinite mass to the speed of light.

Anyway, this got me to thinking - I wonder how much energy it would really take to split the Red Sea the way the story is presented.

I'm going to try to tackle the problem myself, but admittedly, this may be over my head. Still, it will be fun to try it.

I'll lay it out here as I go for criticism and error checking.

So here's my first question:

Is it possible that the answer could equal a quantity so large as to make the event impossible?

I'll lay out my idea for a way to approach the problem itself in a couple of hours.