Tag: disappeared

If you woke up to find 99.99% of the population disappeared overnight, what would you do?

Well, given that 99.99% of 8 billion is 7,999,200,000, that would mean 800,000 people were left on Earth. The majority of those would be in Asia (60% of that number, so apprx. 480 thousand) then Africa (17% or apprx. 136 thousand). In the USA, there would only be apprx. 33 thousand people left. I...

How Long Could We Survive if the Sun Disappeared Today?

First of all, the Sun cannot just disappear without breaking numerous physical laws. That’s the problem of invoking magic — the instant you do it, all bets are off. When you use your imagination to play with something that is not possible given the laws of physics, you also have to us...

What was it like when the last antimatter disappeared?

Things happen fast in the earliest stages of the Universe. In the first 25 microseconds after the start of the hot Big Bang, a number of incredible events have already occurred. The Universe created all the particles and antiparticles — known (as part of the Standard Model) and unknown (includ...

How Pluto Disappeared from the Solar System

The Discovery of Pluto Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930, by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Tombaugh was searching for a ninth planet beyond Neptune, based on irregularities in Neptune’s orbit that suggested the presence of another celestial body exe...