• Question: What would happen if all particles were destroyed?

    Asked by K2 to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Nothing would happen. literally. Everything is made of particles, so if all the particles were destroyed then there would be nothing left for anything to happen to. Just space.

    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      So on the plus side if it does happen, you won’t be missing anything! We’re pretty sure it won’t, though. My secret Doomsday device project is not proceeding as I’d hoped.

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      yeah Vicky is right – there would be nothing left since everything we know is made up of particles

    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      You would still have dark energy around and any other scalar field but without particles nothing would be going on.

Comments