(Solved) What would happen if every particle stopped moving?

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What would happen if every particle stopped moving?

If every particle stopped moving, meaning all four forces were non existant and light stopped, would everything remain at a stand still or time itself has stopped? I'm also curious to know what possiblities would occur if this happened, again, I'm just curious.

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If everything were at absolute zero, there would be nothing to start it up again as there would be no unbound energy. I don't see how this could happen as "particles" are rather fuzzy abstractions at the quantum level.

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Everything would get much smaller since volume is nrT/P where T is temp., so at T = 0, V is pretty much zero, although that's technically impossible. But if all molecules stopped moving in place, ie at their normal position when at normal temperature, they would still be attracted to each other and start accelerating towards each other, which implies that even if they stop, they will still move some amount at least until they become as close to each other as physically possible. By that time, everything would be in a very different state from how things are now. But even if every atom weren't moving, the electrons in them would still be moving about, causing some jiggling about, and that could never be stopped (not that anything we're talking about is possible either)

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