Thank you all, I suspected it was the case that they would still be attracted over any finite distance, but I couldn't be sure. As I said, I'm a layman. I'd love to be able to sit down and do the maths, but my physics knowledge is also so inconceivably small, that I wouldn't even know where to...
Thank you both, that's very interesting. So conceivably, given enough eons, those two hydrogen atoms would eventually be drawn together and (I presume) form a hydrogen molecule?
Hi all,
I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I was wondering this. If the universe only consisted of two hydrogen atoms, and those atoms were billions of light years apart. Would their weight bend space enough for them to be attracted to each other? Or does their influence have a point...