Everything would get slightly heavier. Then a lot of compounds would break and a lot of new compounds would form.
Also a lot of lightning.
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Can someone ELI5 what would happen?
Everything would get slightly heavier. Then a lot of compounds would break and a lot of new compounds would form.
Also a lot of lightning.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For some reason you just explained the probability of the big bang. Some idiot made a wish, and poof, new universe.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’ve clearly never met a 5-year-old
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
When I was younger, I would often splodey too when thinking about Carmen electron
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It would probably go crunch not boom. whatif.xkcd.com/140
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Much better!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Same. And it sounded so silly I could imagine the look of hatred. But this explanation makes more sense.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, my first thought was “does that just break supersymmetry or something? What happens then?”
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I’m sorry but applying negativity or positivity to atoms and electrons is classic anthropomorphism.
Does anyone have a real explanation?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.
microcapybara@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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!