ELI5, is it theoretically possible to have a particle is big enough to behave like a planet? I’m using planet as a device to act as the counter to the particle behavior because I don’t know them correct term.
Is there a mass or property that is the teetering point between acting like a planet vs a particle? If we find a particle with a massive mass, would it be possible that it might act like a planet.
I’m guessing I’m missing a key piece of understanding….
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The closest think I can think of as a boundary would be a particle that exceeds the mass of the smallest possible black hole (because then it would be a black hole, not a particle) which is 2.2×10−8 kg.
That happens to be something like 10^29 times more mass than the heaviest particle we know to exist the Top quark. While there’s a potential for slightly heavier particles to exist that’s unlikely, and not really in the range of black hole mass.
If you are talking about the boundary in size between when things stop acting according to quantum mechanics laws and start looking more like classical physics we really don’t know. We know general scales which basically amount to very cold and very small, but quantum mechanics in its current form just does not have any known mechanism to turn it into classical mechanics, though there are some theories. It’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in physics.
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