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[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What will 1 extra electron do? Destroy universe?

Is it like every Proton has an anti-proton and if it wasnt perfectly balanced the universe would fall apart? Ive heard something like that before...

or would mess with the chemical bonds of all chemistry, likely breaking up every single molecule into individual atoms, immediately killing everyone and destroy everything

[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago

Lots of things become conductive.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It'll be like a Coulombic explosion, but with an excess of negative instead of positive charges.
Everywhere in the universe where matter forms lumps, they would disintegrate.