a question for school project

[Guest lintjosh]

hello all. (i accidentily posted this on the wrong forum) I have a question for a school project i'm working on: What would happen to the universe if the electromagnetic force in every atom weakened and no longer bound electrons to the atom?

thanks

josh

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Giant release of radiation... all atoms disintegrate... general chaos, basically.

[dryan]

It's hard to say really, because so much is based on that strong force.

 

Basically, you'd have nuclei and single electrons flying everywhere.

 

No compounds, no bonding, because no atoms would have any electons.

[DeoxyriboNucleicAcid]

Ohhh geeez, I cant immagine, you wouldnt be alive thats for sure, no vision possibly, ah, crazy, nice question though.

of course as for the unverse, no one REALLY knows hat will happen because humans do not fully understand gravity. Bu i think it would all be caos, the entire place would well maybe reak up, nothing would hold, the universe, and world as we know it would be put to an end!

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

no vision possibly

You're not alive, there's no vision. Duh.

[dryan]

haha!

 

But the question was "What would happen..." not "What would you see...!"

[flexbusterman]

we would become inert masses of course. some of us already have

[Crash]

BANG

 

 

 

with a bit of "SPLAT" on the side

[Guest lintjosh]

So if electrons were no longer bound to atom then we would have a universe where no chemical reactions were possible. Example: 2 atoms of hyrogen combine with one atom of oxygen to form a molecule of water. So if atoms could not combine to form molecules, would the universe explode or break up? what do you think?

[DeoxyriboNucleicAcid]

it would basically remain the same, WITHOUT ANY MOVEMENT, yet there is movement, so atoms would fly all over the place everywhere, I dont beleive your table there wioll be hard, planets will fall apart etc.

[YT2095]

well if it were just the force keeping the electrons in their correct orbitals, then there would be no reason to assume that gravity would be effected, so I imagine that, the elctrons would "leave" and the heaviest part (the neautrons) would all be gravitationaly atracted to each other making a supper dense mass composed of neutrons in the center, with a layer of protons on the outside as they are the next most dense, and then a layer of electrons around that, like layers of an onion.

what it would do after that is anyones guess, but I imagine it wouldn`t be very safe