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On a hot and humid summer day, say 93 degrees with 85% humidity, if for a split second, it was absolute zero and then back to normal, in the blink of an eye, what would happen? In that time period would all life die or would it be too small of a time increment? This is a hypothetical question, obviously.

Answer 1

It would do permanent damage to your entire body. Not sure whether it would kill you, but even at -70C, skin can be frozen to the point of dying within 10 seconds. Absolute zero is another 203 degrees colder than that.

Answer 2

From what I can remember, at absolute zero, everything would breaks down as all energy goes to zero. So all chemical bonds would no longer exists because the electrons will escape from the proton. With all electrons escaping the obit of the protons and neutrons, there would be nothing from what remains as "earth" to generate or maintain any type of energy or structure. So in an instant, a human being that is held together by all those chemical bonding of cells and matter, would just become micro debris...or some may call it the bological soup. So I vote instant death.

Answer 3

I am not a scientist, but i would have to say that it would have no effect on you. If it did drop that low, it would happen to fast to freeze you, your body would still be warm from the 93 degrees, then a split second later you would be back up to 93 degrees. You probably only get chill bumps, u might notice that something happened, and ur hair might stand up. But it would take longer for the cold to kick in to freeze you and kill all things. Maybe like 5 min you would but not a spilt second. your body wouldn't of cooled off that fast for you to freeze

Answer 4

the time factor is so small that it would feel like walking into a deep freeze from a hot kitchen and then back out into the heat. .
if the time frame was even 15 min plant life would suffer
if the time frame was 30 min life at the equator start to suffer
at 1 hour definite plant species lost forever
and the destruction would continue as the time spans increased and the ability of the weather to move systems around the planet.

Answer 5

That's an interesting question, but I don't think all life would immediately die.
First of all, absolute zero is an impossible condition, and the closest ever recorded (it was in a controlled environment, by made by humans) was around .0000001 K, or something close to that.
Also, I'm not sure, but it would seem to me that, assuming its only for a very short amount of time, we wouldn't die, as water retains heat very well and I'm not sure if the environment would obtain equilibrium fast enough to kill us.

Answer 6

The time scale of the event would make a massive difference in what would be observed.

If EVERYTHING went to absolute zero all at once, it would be as though time had stopped. BUT if it stayed that way long enough for the water naturally bound in proteins to form crystals, we would never wake up.

If, on the other hand, our surroundings went to absolute zero for some amount of time, that amount of time would be crucial in deciding what else would happen. Because the issue would then be whether things around us had time to develop crystals (even if we ourselves did not).

Basically, I think if the evironment didn't stay cold long enough for crystals to form, we might never realize it happened. Or we might realize something happened but would be unsure as to what it was.

Answer 7

well i am no scientist but i think everything would die

it would be pretty cool to find out what would relly happen tho