Alternatively, what would happen if the loss of magnetism instead happened gradually over a period of time?
On the bright side we could stop wondering how do they work.
Magnetism is “just” the ability of some elements to line up their fields so that the effects are felt beyond their electron shells. It’s much more complex than that, but magnetism is in all matter, just some more than others. For it to stop at any rate would be like changing a constant of the universe. I would imagine very quickly things would be very different and we wouldn’t be around to witness it.
We wouldn’t be on the internet talking about it, that’s for sure. Electricity wouldn’t exist anymore outside of lightning.
Does that include the magnetic fields of Earth and the Sun? There’d be significant knock-on effects from that potentially causing severe long-term consequences for life.
A fairly disastrous set of outcomes described in the comments so far.
Thank goodness though, that you didn’t ask about there being no springs.
Thank goodness though, that you didn’t ask about there being no springs.
Ha ha, wow, someone at the Simpsons is an MST3K fan, I think.
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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The situation room would be ablaze with work as the Insane Clown Posse would have an even bigger mystery on their hands! How do magnets not work? By situation room I mean wherever they are hot boxing, and by ablaze with work I mean 3-4 fat blunts
Magneto wouldn’t be cool anymore.
The earth is a giant magnet.
You’d be burned to a crisp by solar winds ;)Just wait till night time
How didnt I think of that… facepalm ;D
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
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.
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
Are we including electromagnets? If so, an awful lot of motors would suddenly just not work anymore.
…magnets is quite general, but i believe it counts, and yeah, fucking everything stops…
Electricity generation would suddenly also get a lot harder. Without dynamos I think the only real option becomes solar panels.
The Earth’s magnetic field is gone and we all die.
Finally, some good news!
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.
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Everything would come to a halt, quite literally. Pretty much everything that moves using electricity uses magnets.
The rest depends on what you mean by magnets. All magnetized materials? Now all computers and internet are gone. The ability to create magnetic fields using electricity? All manufacturing equipment becomes scrap metal. No magnetism anywhere with anything? The universe implodes.
