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Comment by lmilcin

> In short, if I lost 1% of my electrons, I would not be a person anymore. I would be a bomb. A Coulomb bomb, if you will, with an energy equivalent to that of ten billion (modern) atomic bombs. Which would surely destroy the planet. All by removing just 1 out of every 100 of my electrons.

The most energy you can extract from any type of bomb would be if it was converted to energy at 100% efficiency.

70kg of mass is equivalent of 1,5GT of TNT.

So still a lot of bombs, but more like 1,5 thousand 1MT bombs and not "10 billions" of them.

I am not a physicist, but I think what this shows is physical impossibility of having 1% of your charge removed and your body still considered to be body even for an infinitesimal amount of time. To do that you would have to add so much energy to your body that just the mass equivalent of energy would have to be many times more than your body.

parent lmilcin 5 years ago

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