What Would Happen If Earth Dropped to Absolute Zero for 5 Seconds?

Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature in the universe nothing gets colder than that so if the entire earth suddenly cooled down to the most frigid temperature for even five seconds it would wreak a lot of havoc just how cold is absolute zero what would happen to your body at this temperature and what's the coolest thing about it this is what if and here's what would happen if the earth dropped to absolute zero for five seconds temperature is how we measure kinetic energy of the particles in any object yeah it tells us how fast atoms molecules and particles move the hotter a gas liquid or solid gets the faster the particles move and when that movement slows down the colder that substance becomes at the lowest temperature possible or absolute zero particles stop moving altogether this is because at 0 kelvin or minus 273.15 degrees celsius no heat energy remains the coldest ground temperature ever on earth 184 kelvin or minus 89.2 degrees celsius was recorded in antarctica in 1983 but it doesn't even come close to absolute zero even the coldest known place in the entire universe the boomerang nebula 5 000 light years away from earth is just a tad warmer at 1 kelvin so are you ready for the coldest five seconds ever at room temperature.

You know that comfortable range of temperatures of about 293 kelvin the air molecules move at an average speed of 1800 kilometers per hour as the temperatures on earth suddenly plummeted all those particles would slow down at 0.000 kelvin the atomic particles would be moving at a speed of about 0.18 kilometers per hour that's 1 000 times slower than their speed at room temperature getting this close to absolute zero all chemical reactions would be closer and closer to coming to a complete stop and this would be very bad news for you and everything else on earth chemical reactions are responsible for everything including how your brain communicates with your body without the trillions of chemical reactions going on inside of you you wouldn't be able to breathe or turn food into fuel temperatures near absolute zero would be devastatingly cold even at a comparatively toasty 77 kelvin you'd be in serious trouble that's the temperature of liquid nitrogen after just a few seconds of exposure to this temperature you'd suffer severe burns blistering and frostbite needing a toe or ten amputated could be a definite possibility so just five seconds of absolute zero could do incredible amounts of damage to all life forms on earth but i have good news the chemical reactions wouldn't come to a total standstill.

Even at the near absolute zero temperature of the boomerang nebula chemical reactions do still appear to take place this is thanks to the strange effects of quantum physics and whenever quantum physics is involved things get weird with all the atoms on earth at a near standstill you'd find them starting to clump together they'd be forming a state of matter known as a bose-einstein condensate this would mean that every atom is in the same energy state and essentially identical to one another from a physical point of view they'd start to behave as a single atom and if you could become a bose-einstein condensate it would be pretty cool pardon the pun for those brief five seconds you'd have some unique physical properties like super fluidity yeah you'd be able to flow through tiny cracks without any friction only there wouldn't be any cracks because you wouldn't be the only super fluid thing on the planet but there is a catch bose-einstein condensates can only be formed when bosuns are cooled to near absolute zero bosons are all atoms with an even number of electrons that means only some of the atoms in your body and the environment around you could become a bose-einstein condensate and lucky for you reaching a temperature of absolute zero wouldn't be possible if earth and everything on it plummeted to absolute zero it would instantly pull the heat from the space around it to keep you and the planet at zero degrees kelvin.

For five seconds you'd need an infinite amount of resources this makes it mathematically impossible but that wouldn't mean that five seconds of near absolute zero temperatures wouldn't destroy just about everything and nothing would ever come back together from this soup of atoms that you and the entire planet would turn into maybe you'd be better off seeing what would happen if the earth simply froze overnight well that sounds like a day at the beach after all this absolute zero talk and of course that's a story for another what if.