man-man Posted:

So if you run a cat through a blender, you still have a cat? I’d call that lots of small pieces of cat-meat, but that’s just me…

“The world” is one way to arrange all the bits of dirt/metal in the planet, another way to arrange them would be an asteroid belt, or a nebula of tiny grains, but I wouldn’t call either of those things “The world”.

And what if the planet crashed into another larger planet; it’d become a part of that larger planet, or one component of a new planet. Either way, Earth ceases to be a thing.