• Question: What would happen if all the mass in the universe was in one ball?

    Asked by anon-248473 to Zoya, Tom, Stacey, Laura, James, Connor on 15 Mar 2020.
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      James Lees answered on 15 Mar 2020:


      That depends on how big the ball is. It might not be unreasonable to say that it is currently all in a ‘ball’ just a very big one.

      However the question you’re probably asking is what if it was a small ball, say football size. In which case all of the matter would become so hot and dense that it melts down into a gluon plasma and everything we understand about the universe pretty much breaks down. No atoms or even protons and neutrons.

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