Capacitors are known to explode when charged beyond their limits. If a fully charged industrial capacitor is connected to a smaller capacitor, the smaller one will explode.
When we combine this observation with the fact that planets are charged objects, and therefore capacitors of sorts, we get that if a highly charged planet comes in contact with a smaller planet, the bigger one may cause the smaller one to explode.
This may seems impossible. However, the laws of electricity scale perfectly. What is true for capacitors in laboratories on Earth is also true for planet size capacitors in space. Charged beyond their limits, they explode.
Not only is such an event a theoretical possibility. There’s evidence to suggest that it has happened in our solar system, quite possibly due to the same rogue planet that scarred Mars and zapped the Grand Canyon into the crust of our planet.
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