• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I wish for one electron to disappear from every atom. The net result would be that all atoms would now have a positive charge.

    True, it would not only end all life on earth, but also destroy the entire earth. But everything would be positive.

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        8 months ago

        I love that he never even touched proton earth, which would really release some energy. Not sure how bad the collapse of the strong force in that nucleus would be, but I can’t imagine that a proton mass 6x more massive than the electron moon would have any less spectacular of a result.

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      8 months ago

      Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are plenty of atoms/molecules that have greater negative ionization states than -1. This wouldn’t even make everything neutral.

      Captain Pedant… AWAAAAYYYY.

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        8 months ago

        OTOH, if you shifted the ionization state of every single atom, then pretty much every molecule would end up flying apart. You can’t form H2O if hydrogen has no electrons at all; hydrogen becomes a single proton.