In your body there are about 0.55 electrons for each nucleon (from this and approximating Z/A as 1 for hydrogen and 0.5 for anything else); i.e., about 3.3e26 electrons per kilogram of matter; that is, their electric charge is about −5.3e7 coulombs per kilogram, and the electric charge of your body if the electrons vanished would be 5.3e7 C/kg. The electrostatic energy is then kQ^2/(4*pi*ε0*r), where r is your “size” and k is some factor roughly of order 1 depending on your “shape” (e.g. 3⁄5 for an uniform ball of radius r). That’d be in the ballpark of 1e30 joules, or 1e14 megatons of TNT: half a dozen orders of magnitude more than the Chicxulub Crater, but about fourteen orders of magnitude less than a supernova.
That’d be in the ballpark of 1e30 joules, or 1e14 megatons of TNT: half a dozen orders of magnitude more than the Chicxulub Crater, but about fourteen orders of magnitude less than a supernova.
So from the sounds of it extinction of complex life on earth but nowhere near enough to destroy the planet.
In your body there are about 0.55 electrons for each nucleon (from this and approximating Z/A as 1 for hydrogen and 0.5 for anything else); i.e., about 3.3e26 electrons per kilogram of matter; that is, their electric charge is about −5.3e7 coulombs per kilogram, and the electric charge of your body if the electrons vanished would be 5.3e7 C/kg. The electrostatic energy is then kQ^2/(4*pi*ε0*r), where r is your “size” and k is some factor roughly of order 1 depending on your “shape” (e.g. 3⁄5 for an uniform ball of radius r). That’d be in the ballpark of 1e30 joules, or 1e14 megatons of TNT: half a dozen orders of magnitude more than the Chicxulub Crater, but about fourteen orders of magnitude less than a supernova.
So from the sounds of it extinction of complex life on earth but nowhere near enough to destroy the planet.