The Greek mythical Phrygian king Midas held a reception for Silenus for 10 days. Silenus got drunk and was taken to the court and became Dionysus , God of fertility and drunkenness. You will be rewarded with "I only have one wish". King Midas wanted "the power to turn everything he touched into gold," but that power acted like a curse, turning his daughter into a golden statue.
Imagine if the power of King Midas in "The Midas Revelation" turned the entire earth to gold. Before considering the situation of the earth turning to gold, let's first understand the "gold" element itself, which has 118 neutrons and the atom number is 79.
Gold has properties such as being rust-free, shiny and flexible, and it can be said that the electric power of protons and electrons produces these properties. Therefore, the ability to "turn non-gold into gold" can be understood as the ability to change atoms themselves.
duck mascot. Ducks are made up of "light atoms" with lower atomic numbers such as hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen, so if Duck were to become gold, all of those light atoms would gain electrons, protons, and neutrons and become gold atoms. Therefore, due to the acquisition of electrons, protons and neutrons, not only does the duck suddenly increase in mass by a factor of 33, but the density also increases by a factor of 20 or more.
If, as legend has it, the duck turned gold in its original shape, it is believed that at this density the gold atoms would be too close to each other to create strong repulsive energy, resulting in the equivalent of 0.5 tons Explosion of TNT. I will. So if King Midas touches the duck, all that's left is the blown King Midas and scattered gold dust.
This is far from the legend. . . So instead of the ability to convert King Midas' energy into gold atoms, he said, "break apart neutrons and other atoms that already existed." Let's think of it as the ability to "recombine into gold atoms"
In this case, the mass remains unchanged, so King Midas can safely touch the duck.
But when it comes to density, it's a different story. Gold is almost 20 times denser than a duck...
The inside of the golden duck becomes slimy.
So what if King Midas, who had this ability, accidentally fell and "touched the earth"?
If the Earth had been gilded by the power of King Midas, it is thought that the interior of the Earth would be as soft as a duck. This gap isn't a big problem for the ducks, but it is a big problem for the planet. In the case of Earth, gravity is strong, so contraction occurs in the form of filling in the voids. Eventually the Earth will shrink to two-thirds of its radius.
During this contraction, the ground shrinks inward at explosive speeds, causing everything on the ground to float.
The contraction itself is thought to last around 10 minutes, and not only all living things, but also all objects not anchored to the ground, such as trains and ships, continue to float. You might think you can enjoy 10 minutes of levitation, but once the contraction ends, it will collide with Earth. This collision is synonymous with "Earth struck at 30,000 km/h," so everything that hit was basically destroyed. Therefore, at the end of this phenomenon, all living things become "red puddles".
The red puddle of all living creatures is just the beginning of the collapse. The earth was crushed by the collision of people, oceans, mountains and crust, and the core reached an ultra-high temperature of 1 million degrees Celsius.
Additionally, the collision creates a very strong shock wave that greatly expands the atmosphere. The surface temperature of the earth has also reached hundreds of thousands of degrees Celsius, and everything on the earth has evaporated instantly and turned into a ball of plasma .
Many atoms escape from the atmosphere as they mix with a cloud of plasma, and the Earth temporarily shines brighter than the Sun.Then, in a few days, the phenomenon will subside and the Earth will become a small golden sphere.
That's awful, so let's consider the case where King Midas' power is the ability to ignore the laws of physics that "change the volume of an object you touch into gold without changing it."
In this case, the earth touched by King Midas would not expand or contract, but it is thought that the mass would increase instantaneously. Since gold is 3.5 times denser than Earth, King Midas' touch suddenly made the Earth 3.5 times heavier.
For objects on Earth, gravity suddenly increases by a factor of 3.5. It's like forcing a "2.5 times your body weight" to be strapped together, humans can't move under their own weight unless they are a world weightlifting champion.
The effect of a 3.5x increase in gravity is huge, with trees toppling and buildings collapsing. Birds and airplanes fall and collide with the Earth's surface, so depending on where you are at the moment the Earth turns to gold, you can die from an accident and instantly.
It's not just living things and objects that are affected by gravity. The weight and pressure of the atmosphere also increased by 3.5 times.
Considering scuba diving you can see that even with 3.5 times the air pressure you can continue to breathe, but the problem is not the breathing. When the air pressure increases 3.5 times, the compressed atmosphere increases the temperature to 150°C. This rise burns away everything on the surface.
In addition, gold is plasticity is a soft metal with excellent advantages. When the earth turned to gold, it was thought that the mountains turned to gold, but since gold is soft, the entire mountain range collapsed due to its own weight.
It is difficult to predict what will happen due to the "mountain collapse" phenomenon. However, major earthquakes and massive landslides are likely.
This phenomenon is not limited to land. Because gold is soft, mountains collapsed and depressions in the sea filled up, averaging above sea level.
Therefore, there should eventually be a planet covered with ultra-high temperatures to a depth of 3 kilometers.
