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=== Assistant: Okay, this gets wild really fast 😂 ===
Okay, this gets wild really fast 😂

You asked: what if every atom in the human body doubled its electrons (so each atom gained one extra electron, or all their electrons were doubled)? Let’s go with the idea that every atom gets one extra electron — that’s already insanely extreme.

==== A typical human body has around 7 × 10²⁷ atoms (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms). ====

If each atom gained 1 extra electron, then:
* You’d have 7 × 10²⁷ extra electrons.
* Each electron has a charge of about 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁹ coulombs.
* Total extra charge ≈ 1,100,000,000 coulombs (about 1.1 billion C).

For comparison:
* A big lightning bolt has like 5 to 300 coulombs of charge.
* Your charged body would have millions to tens of millions of lightning bolts’ worth of charge.

That is physically insane.

==== Realistically, before it even finished happening: ====
* The electrostatic repulsion between all those extra negative charges would be so strong that: - Chemical bonds would be ripped apart. - Your body would explode into a plasma cloud of charged particles. - Gigantic sparks/arcs would blast out into the air, ground, and anything nearby.

This is called a Coulomb explosion: the same-charge particles repel so violently that the material basically blows itself apart.

So the result is not:
* Superpowers ❌
* Electric hero ❌

It’s more like:
* Instant disintegration into a screaming storm of electrons and ions ✅

==== Even before the big explosion idea: ====
* Atoms need the right number of electrons for chemical bonds.
* Doubling or adding one extra electron to every atom would turn: - Neutral atoms → negative ions. - Molecules → totally unstable.
* Proteins, DNA, cell membranes, water structure — all the chemistry of life — would fall apart.

So even without the huge charge explosion, your body chemistry would no longer be “a human body.”

==== Nature really, really hates big charge imbalances: ====
* Any tiny extra charge you get (like from walking on a carpet) gets neutralized quickly — via sparks, the air, the ground, etc.
* You could never get even a tiny fraction of the “every atom gets an electron” scenario. The air around you would start glowing and sparking long before.

===== If every atom in your body gained an extra electron: =====

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If you want, next we can play with “smaller” what-ifs, like:
➡️ What if only 1 in a billion atoms in your body got an extra electron? That’s closer to something that could sort of exist in reality.