What If Earth Were All Protons and the Moon All Electrons? Welcome to physics’ most explosive “what if”—one wild scenario triggers black hole chaos.
- Nov 3, 2025
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Ever wondered what would happen if cosmic scale curiosity ran wild—and someone decided to swap all the protons in Earth and all the electrons in the Moon? Sounds like a sci-fi pitch, but what unravels is a freakishly destructive scenario that sends both physicists and sci-fi fans racing for the calculator (and maybe the exit).
Let’s start with electrostatics: protons want to stick together, electrons want space, and gravity doesn’t stand a chance in this atomic cage match. Stack up 10^53 electrons into one Moon, and they’d repel each other with unimaginable force—a repulsion 20 orders of magnitude stronger than their gravity. The result? Not a cozy orbit, but a spectacular, universe-bending explosion. Forget about quaint planetary dances. These objects wouldn’t even recognize each other as neighbors before blasting apart faster than you can say “Planck energy”.
