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"Think of the amount of mass required to generate a gravitational pressure needed to overcome the electromagnetic binding force between molecules inside the mas
by acqq 8y ago
"Think of the amount of mass required to generate a gravitational pressure needed to overcome the electromagnetic binding force between molecules inside the mass--the equilibrium occurs, basically, when an object in space becomes spherical. This happens at about 10^20 - 10^21kg. Divided by the mass of a proton implies you need about 10^47 atoms to generate the amount of gravitational pressure to break the electromagnetic strength between atoms." (1)
Richard Feynman would tell you that this immense difference is "what's keeping you from not falling through the floor down to the Earth center." Or why the apple hanging on the "few atoms" of its stalk is not falling from the tree, when the summary gravitation of all atoms of the whole Earth are pulling it down.
Or, again to compare such big numbers, there are "only" 10^86 atoms in the whole Universe observable to us! (2)
1) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-are-the-gravitational-and-electric-force-comparable.660195/ https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-are-the-gravitatio...
2) https://www.universetoday.com/36302/atoms-in-the-universe/ https://www.universetoday.com/36302/atoms-in-the-universe/