Alternatively, what would happen if the loss of magnetism instead happened gradually over a period of time?
Every single electrical item on the planet stops working, because every generator, turbine, and motor immediately stops running.
Car batteries never charge, starter motors won’t turn, and any hall effect sensors cease to operate.
Kitchen floors would be covered with souvenirs and notes.
Society would collapse
I’m no expert, but I feel like magnets losing their magnetism would also cause electricity to stop working.
Most electricity is being created with the use of magnets i motors/generators. No more electricity then.
Asides from batteries and solar.
generally speaking, mass chaos and hysteria and then nothingness.
if we exclude the possibility of “magic” doing it, and instead focus on the realistic causes of a loss of magnetism the chances for just magnets to be directly impacted are low.
that is, the strength of phenomena that would be required for all magnets in the world to cease functioning it would also likely cause the magnetic cohesion of molecules and atoms to break. this breakdown at the atomic and subatomic level would cause a chain reaction where we would both cease to exist and explode with enough energy to destroy the universe.
if any atoms of you survived at all, they would be flung to the outer reaches of the universe in seconds only for the entirety of the universe to be sucked into the void such an explosion caused. it would probably be something akin to a big bang.
People couldn’t use their MagSafe iPhone accessories and society would crumble within days (You can’t tell me I don’t know what Vietnam was like!!)
The earth is a giant magnet.
You’d be burned to a crisp by solar winds ;)You’d be burned to a crisp by solar winds ;)
No, you wouldn’t. You’d start getting cancer.
Also, the atmosphere would start getting worn away. Most people would die of cancer before it’d get bad enough to asphyxiate everyone though
You’d be nuclear burned to a crisp
Just wait till night time
How didnt I think of that… facepalm ;D
Rather than listing all of the ways modern life and society would collapse it’d be easier to just say this:
Your ability to understand the world would in an instant be limited to the people that immediately surround you and you’d better quickly think of a way to find a clean water source, some land, grab an “Agriculture for Dummies” book, and some form of weapon to defend your new homestead with your new tribe.
Nah, don’t worry about that shit. The earth just lost its radiation shield.
Well is this about permanent magnets loosing their functionality or the whole concept of magnetism just vanishing?
One puts us back to a steampunk technological ceiling the other means the universe pops out of existence; electricity, magnetism, and light are closely linked so removing one is likely to just break reality.
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On the bright side we could stop wondering how do they work.
my hard drives…
All the shit would fall off of my fridge.
Depending on what counts as a “magnet”, the loss of magnetism could destroy the universe.
Maybe the exercise should be limited to all ferrous metals just became inert.
Welp, bye bye to the shield against the Sun’s deadly laser. Although I guess that also means bye bye to the laser too? Hmm.
Can’t get sunburnt if there’s no sun.
taps forehead
Yeah I think its just a polarity flip and nothing would actually happen so long as we properly compensate
The Earth’s magnetic field is gone and we all die.
Finally, some good news!
If you mean a complete absence of the electromagnetic force, then chemistry and physics are going to get very disastrous for us very quickly
Are we including electromagnets? If so, an awful lot of motors would suddenly just not work anymore.
Electricity generation would suddenly also get a lot harder. Without dynamos I think the only real option becomes solar panels.
…magnets is quite general, but i believe it counts, and yeah, fucking everything stops…
You would hard pressed to learn about the details without electricity and communication networks.
We just lost all data still being stored on magnetic drives and mediums.
Compasses just became useless.
A lot of medical and scientific equipment suddenly stopped working.
The MagSafe charger on my computer just fell off.
Not gyrocompasses that things like planes and missiles uses, just the kind low tech hikers use.
No more fridge magnets.
Or fridge doors closing properly.
Shit. Welp. So much for fridges. Thanks, OP!
No more iPad covers.
FML
Exactly. This is clearly the biggest problem. Who cares if every atom in the entire universe gets shredded in a new big bang when the screen of my iPad might get scratched next time I toss it in my bag.
