Hypothetical: Local uncertainty neutralizer

[18-Till-I-Die]

Ok so...let me try and understand this, and i'm about to state it like someone who was educated in the Public School system in America so bear with me..

Basically you have a bomb, which causes every law of physics in the target area to just stop. When triggered all physics as we understand them stop instantly and the area within the target area is just disintegrated and instantly destroyed, possibly exploding outward when it all becomes just this big random mass of energy.

Am i close?

[Kuroneko]

Physics doesn't stop; they're changed, by act of plot, so that they are no longer quantized in a limited region. This will incidently destroy the matter there simply because microscopic structures are not stable in classical physics--e.g., atoms need quantum mechanics to not collapse.

[Master of Cards]

Physics doesn't stop; they're changed, by act of plot, so that they are no longer quantized in a limited region. This will incidently destroy the matter there simply because microscopic structures are not stable in classical physics--e.g., atoms need quantum mechanics to not collapse.

so in a circle 100 meters in radius E=mc squared?

[Surlethe]

Ok so...let me try and understand this, and i'm about to state it like someone who was educated in the Public School system in America so bear with me..

Basically you have a bomb, which causes every law of physics in the target area to just stop. When triggered all physics as we understand them stop instantly and the area within the target area is just disintegrated and instantly destroyed, possibly exploding outward when it all becomes just this big random mass of energy.

Am i close?

Think of it this way. Subatomic particles don't behave like billiard balls -- they're smeared out, like in a wave, because of the uncertainty principle: you're never exactly sure where one is, and you're never exactly sure where one is going. Since they behave like waves, they have to have a wavelength. In this light, we see that it's actually electron-waves which orbit atomic nuclei. Waves can cause interference with each other, and so if an electron could orbit the nucleus at any point, at some distances, it would interfere with itself, and so knock itself out of existence. The point is, it's this possibility of interfering with itself which keeps electrons in discrete orbits.

So, imagine this uncertainty device is turned on. Immediately, all the electrons in the 100 m radius turn from waves into little particles -- and there's nothing keeping them from plummeting into the atomic nuclei. Like gravitation potential, there's electromagnetic potential, which is all released as energy every atom in that 100 m radius implodes. Things go boom.