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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

You know how when you put magnet faces together with the same polarity, they push against each other. If you squeeze them together they will pop away. When an atom has an extra electron, it makes its charge more negative. If all of the atoms have extra electrons, all of their charges will be more negative. Now imagine every single atom in the universe was suddenly the same polarity and began pushing all other atoms away. I’ll let your imagination take over from there.

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Stupidmanager@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
For some reason you just explained the probability of the big bang. Some idiot made a wish, and poof, new universe.

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PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You’ve clearly never met a 5-year-old

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- kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.
  
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  - yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    When I was younger, I would often splodey too when thinking about Carmen electron
    
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    kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Image
    
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  - anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It would probably go crunch not boom. whatif.xkcd.com/140
    
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    kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    In the example in from that what if, they are putting a universe’s worth of mass in the volume of the moon, so it would create a super massive singularity. That’s not what is happening in here.
    
    If every atom suddenly gained an electron, they would indeed increase in mass. But a hydrogen atoms would gain the most relative mass as it is the lightest atom, and that would only be an increase of 1/1837th of its total mass now, so… not that much. Masses of heavier atoms and the macro level matter made from them would increase in mass even more marginally. It would be a negligible difference, definitely not be enough for a singularity to form from this increase alone unless a star’s core were already riding that edge.
    
    So their original determination would still be correct, that molecules would fly apart (atomized) and explode outward into the vacuum of space. Now, maaaaybe if the explosive force were enough to cause atoms to collide in space and at relativistic speeds, tiny singularities might form. But their combined negative charge would be far more powerful than their gravitational pull, and they would decay almost immediately, so… no crunch.
    
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  - PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Much better!
    
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh, I see. I read it wrong at first. I thought it was saying add one electron total, I didn’t realize it meant one to each atom. It makes a lot more sense now.

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- fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Same. And it sounded so silly I could imagine the look of hatred. But this explanation makes more sense.
  
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  - wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, my first thought was “does that just break supersymmetry or something? What happens then?”
    
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kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m sorry but applying negativity or positivity to atoms and electrons is classic anthropomorphism.

Does anyone have a real explanation?

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- kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.
  
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  - microcapybara@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    No no no you misunderstand the atom! At their heart they’re all positive, it’s just a shell of negativity due to fear of attachment!
    
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