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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’ve clearly never met a 5-year-old

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.

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      • yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        When I was younger, I would often splodey too when thinking about Carmen electron

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      • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It would probably go crunch not boom. whatif.xkcd.com/140

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Much better!

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, my first thought was “does that just break supersymmetry or something? What happens then?”

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.

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      • microcapybara@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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