Alternatively, what would happen if the loss of magnetism instead happened gradually over a period of time?

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    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.