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by Lewis Aleigh on October 8th, 2005

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What would happen if you took evaporation out of the water cycle? If evaporation suddenly stopped, what would happen?

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  • by Anon on April 25th, 2006

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    As I'm sure you all know, evaporation is caused by particles absorbing heat energy and moving faster and further. If particles were unable to absorb this energy, and use it to move around, then the earth heating and cooling would not be an issue, because it wouldn't exist. In fact the universe would not exist.

    In the early stages of the universe, about a second after the big bang, the universe was extremely hot. Early particles and anti particles needed this energy to escape the initial gravitational energy (which was due to the majority of matter in the universe being in a very small space in the first few seconds of the big bang). The extreme heat gave enough energy to the particles, so that there positive and negative energy was greater then the gravitational energy, allowing them to escape and expand outward. If the particles were unable to use this heat energy, then the universe would have only lasted a few seconds, because the gravitational energy would have exceded the energy of the particles, and contracted back in on its self very quickly. The universes life span would just be a quick flash.

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