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What do you think would happen if ALL motion in the entire universe totally stopped and came to a dead standstill?

Nothing moving, not even electrons orbiting their nucleus etc..
'Course that could not possibly ever happen but if..?

Posted - January 18, 2021

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  • 10449
    Well, one thing's for sure... I wouldn't have to go to traffic court (look, I'm not speeding).
      January 18, 2021 5:52 PM MST
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  • 44177
    Dang...I can't eve
      January 18, 2021 8:02 PM MST
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  • 10451
    We would all float up into space because there would be no gravity and well we are going up some us will say - weeeeeeeeeee and some us will say yiììiiiiiiiikes. Cheers!
      January 18, 2021 8:12 PM MST
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  • 19942
    We would get sucked into the vortex of outer space and wind up orbiting the earth.
      January 18, 2021 9:24 PM MST
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  • 17364
    Obviously nothing
    . This post was edited by Thriftymaid at January 19, 2021 11:37 AM MST
      January 19, 2021 1:00 AM MST
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  • 13395
    I think without motion happening gravitational forces would take over and galaxies would  immediately  be sucked into the black hole that lies at the center of most galaxies then all these black holes would 'big crunch' into one huge super giant black hole; 
      January 19, 2021 1:34 AM MST
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  • 16202
    Space-time would cease to exist. Even the CMB has motion.
      January 19, 2021 3:05 AM MST
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  • 44177
    How would it be possible to get trump's mouth to stop moving?
      January 19, 2021 11:38 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Try slip a bit of truth serum in his covfefe.
      January 19, 2021 11:43 AM MST
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  • 3680
    Hmmm! Nice one...

    One for the best brains in cosmology and quantum physics to ponder. I wonder if they ever have.

    Well, for a start I think it would be a state of universal absolute cold: 0.00K. Absolute silence too.

    I don't know if gravity would still exist, because your model postulates total lack of force and motion. Everything just staying where it is, presumably still having mass but no weight; but there being nothing to send it scurrying away or falling down.

    There is though the little matter of energy being neither created nor destroyed (or "renewed"!) but theoretically interchangeable with matter, so what would happen there?
      January 23, 2021 4:56 PM MST
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  • 44177
    Also, motion relative to what?
      January 23, 2021 5:02 PM MST
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  • 3680
    Ah, yes. Well, presumably relative to whatever is nearest, or to the relevant centre of mass; but I am not sure how that applies on a cosmic scale. 
      January 23, 2021 5:12 PM MST
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  • 44177
    Correct. 13 billion light years is a long ways off. The question is too much to think about, and I often think about such things.
      January 23, 2021 6:57 PM MST
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  • 13395
    I imagine if all motion stopped there would be nothing to be relative to.
      January 23, 2021 9:39 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Hello Durdle.. thanks for your reply.

    I said just   if all motion would stop but assume gravitational force of the black hole would still be in effect. I am thinking simply like pulling the plug in a basin of water and the water begins to whirl around instead of immediately being sucked into the black hole.. er drain hole. Same if all motion of the masses that make up the material of our galaxy stopped whirling around the center where lies the gravitational force of the black hole then the masses of the galaxy would be pulled straight into the hole maybe not  immediately but much quicker without the whirling motion in effect slowing down the process.

    I wonder what is the cause of whirling motion to begin around a center of gravity anyway..
      January 23, 2021 9:33 PM MST
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  • 44177
    I had a 7th grade student ask me about why everything in the universe rotated, revolves. I was rather stunned, as I could not answer her question and told her so. That was 25 years ago...before the internet. That was the best question a student ever asked me in 20 years of teaching. I still remember her name. An Ton. She was Vietnamese.
      January 24, 2021 8:36 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Well, that is an interesting thing about being a teacher.
      January 24, 2021 9:43 AM MST
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  • 44177
    The second best question was : "How do you know?". I didn't and could not get her an answer.
      January 24, 2021 9:45 AM MST
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  • 3680
    I see what you mean. Yes, I'd wondered if that would happen, too.

    It would have local equivalents, too: moons falling onto their planets; planets falling into their stars. All radially rather than spiralling in to their doom.
      January 24, 2021 4:55 PM MST
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