When observing the sky, one ends up getting lost in its immensity, the mental structure undergoes a transformation. By not being able to understand the dimension of what lies before our eyes, which in no way compares to our tiny corporeality, then the unknowns begin to arise. What would happen if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning, or what would happen if we ended up lost in space. Could we navigate inside a ? Doubts spin and spin in your mind, until you wonder what would happen if there wasn’t one.
It should be noted that when faced with this last question, scientists have been very clear; It is almost impossible for it to happen. But in case your curiosity is not satisfied with this simple answer, many experts have considered what would happen if there were no gravity. And the possibilities are a little scary.
If gravity had never existed
It is very different to wonder what would happen if gravity had never existed, than to wonder about its disappearance right now. In the first case the answer is as simple or complex as you want to think about it. That is to say, although it is not given the necessary weight, gravity is actually the sculptor of everything we know.
Therefore, if we go the simple route it would be enough to say that we simply would not be here and life would never have existed. It could not even be ensured that the Universe itself existed, since stars, galaxies, nebulae, matter, absolutely everything was formed thanks to gravity.
Galaxy cluster captured by the .
The complicated path is to explain in detail the great influence that gravity has, but not in macroscopic dimensions but in our tiny world. You may never have thought about it, but the size of individual biological cells is inversely proportional to the intensity of the gravitational field that exerts its force on them. Thus, the size of the cells is determined by gravity. In a space where the effect of gravity was less, the cells would be larger.
But in addition, it also fostered complex life on our planet. Biology has entered the labyrinth of trying to explain how life evolved from the simplest to the most complex. And although it certainly has complex premises, it could be said that gravity is the true sculptor behind it. Everything in our bodies is adapted to it, from blood circulation to movement.
Thanks to it we developed a self-directed locomotion system. In other words, gravity meant that we did not preserve amorphism in the body and that, on the contrary, beings began to develop a musculoskeletal system with which to repel its effects. If it weren’t for it, we would not have evolved to walk and perhaps on a planet with lower gravity we would only exist in the form of crawling amorphous beings.
What if he suddenly disappeared?
Until now it has been clear to us in one way or another that, if gravity had not existed since the beginning of time, you would not be reading these lines and I writing for you. It is likely that not even matter would have been formed and instead something else would exist, we do not know exactly what. But what would happen if gravity suddenly disappeared?
Karen Masters, an astronomer at the University of Portsmouth, explores the immediate consequences of non-pregnancy. The first problem we would face would be that the Earth would begin to rotate at enormous speeds. And by no longer having a field that keeps us grounded, all the matter that was not attached to the Earth’s surface would be thrown into space at high speeds.
The land, the oceans, rivers and everything that is maintained on the planet thanks to gravity, would be the first thing to be lost out there. Then the houses and all the structures attached to the ground would also collapse, although more slowly, and would begin to float until they were lost. At this point it is clear that we would all die almost instantly. Eventually the planet itself would probably break into millions of pieces that would end up floating in space.