Rate these events from most catastrophic to least.
1) Gravity turns off for 3 seconds and then back on.
2) The earth suddenly starts spinning backwards.
3) Every electron within 1 light year of Earth disappears.
4) The sun shuts down for two weeks.
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I agree with 3 -- which might be a galaxy ending event. I think the sun turning off for two weeks wouldn't be too bad (as long as the mass is still there).
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Because if you removed all of the electrons from everything within a light year, you'd end up with extremely positively charged objects that would tend to explode violently.
Oh okay. I understood within as the shell not the ball. The shell won't be as much of a problem.