What if electricity ceased to exist

A friend asked me a question - just to make some intelligent conversation - that what would happen if electricity would be no more.

After a small moment of thinking, I answered that everything, all living and non living things, this earth and all other planets, the sun, our galaxy and all other galaxies would stop to exist, and nothing would be anymore. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

The disappearing of stars and planets can not be called an explosion. Explosion is a chemical phenomenon and chemistry is electricity. After electricity ceased to exist, there is no chemistry anymore. The stars and planets also do not disintegrate into atoms, as atoms are kept together by - yes, electricity. Atoms and ions will stop to exist. Electrons are no longer negatively, and protons no longer positively charged.

There can not be any solid objects. The concept of objects being solid (atoms attaching to each other) is all electricity. Electricity also prevents atoms from interlacing. It is electricity that stop you on the ground, otherwise you would continue falling through the surface of the ground! So from this point on, particles will float freely, and not form any structures.


You know what would also disappear? light and temperature. The electromagnetic field smallest possible unit - quantum, happens to be photon. So photons would also disappear. As photons do not exist, all lights will be turned off. But there will be no one to shiver in the dark. (Note: mobile phones do not work either, but you already guessed this, right?)

So what is there left to be but darkness and void? Assume that the unification of theories is kept out of this and we assume QED only disappears and QCD would still exist, quarks will still form baryons. That means protons and neutrons will still exist. And the protons and neutrons will still form ions, atom nuclei, but the electrons have left them permanently. What would a world be like, when there is a porridge of nuclei and electrons, but they can not form atoms, and nothing is solid, particles are drawn together by gravity, and there is no electricity to keeps particles from a decent distance from eachother?

The answer is obvious. All stars and planets would immediately collapse into black holes. Those would have to be non-radiating black holes, because gamma-rays have gone too.

That's what would happen. In fact, what my friend really meant that what if man was no longer able to use electricity as a power source. I kind of knew this. But I found the question so much more fun to answer after a small misunderstanding included, don't you think ! Also I wanted to show off. I'm such a selfish bastard.