What would happen if everything were frozen to a stop?
No motion whatsoever? Nothing was moving...,
Earth stopped spinning, atoms stopped whizzing, electrons stopped moving, there were no thoughts?
Would things simply fly apart? But if so, where would the energy to fly apart come from if there was no energy?
Could such a state even exist? Isn't a lack of any energy also a lack of mass? IE, objects at rest are stored energy, but even objects at rest still have moving atoms.
So if everything were totally stopped, all motion at all, would everything be impossibly cold, dark, forever preserved?
Or would they fly apart with nothing to hold them together?
If they fly apart, of course, that would generate motion and violate the no motion rules.
Would earth fall out of its place? To where?
Is it possible for planets and stars to literally hang on nothing at all without "falling"?
2007-02-14 21:54:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
On the contary, dear! Well, step by step:
If you stoped time what woudl happen: nothing. No time, no anything!
Got that? Well, next step:
As you go on in your question, if it was all motion that stopped and not all time, would we fly appart? Well, there would be a lot of motion involved to fly appart, isn't it?
In fact, as one said about Brownian movement, if this stops at 0(°)K all centrifugal forces would be also 0. Then all matter would collapse into itself. Maybe it would form a black hole or something.
Bear in mind that matter consists mainly of the space between atoms. With no movement this space will be, well, filled by the atoms and all matter would concentrate in one, very small lump of atoms.
End of all!, over!, FIN! This could be the scource of another Big Bang or just the end of life , the universe and everything.
And 21 is only half the truth!
2007-02-14 23:25:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to really stop everything is to remove time as one of the four dimensions. Time is defined as movement. Einstein equated it to the speed of light, so that the two are directly related. If the universe were to fly in a single direction at the speed of light, then nothing would be able to move because any additional movement would exceed the speed of light. But that's only from the reference point of an observer who was at rest (relatively).
2007-02-14 22:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the definition you've given, nothing would move at all, so nothing can "fall" anywhere. But nothing would be visible either.
Since the entire scenario has already rewritten the laws of physics, the consequences can only be determined by the new laws that you have decided to write in their place. I don't know which laws you wish to keep and which you wish to rewrite in this scenario.
So the real answer can only be, "whatever you want to happen," since this can only take place in the hypothetical reality you've constructed for your question.
2007-02-14 22:08:07 · answer #3 · answered by DavidGC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't quite see the point of this thought experiment.
You say what if time could stop, fine - then you ask what would happen to atoms and stars etc - well nothing - because there would be no time. So nothing could happen to anything by definition, right?
2007-02-14 22:15:48 · answer #4 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If everything stopped, everything would stop -- by definition.
Since there is nothing that can do that, why are you asking this in the physics section?
Incidentally, the only way to stop Brownian motion is to bring the temperature of everything to absolute zero: -273°C or thereabouts.
2007-02-14 22:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋