# Why is it that $\mathbb{Q}$ cannot be homeomorphic to _any_ complete metric space?

Why is it that $\mathbb{Q}$ cannot be homeomorphic to any complete metric space?

Certainly $\mathbb{Q}$ is not a complete metric space. But completeness is not a topological invariant, so why is the above statement true?

By the Baire Category Theorem, a space that is homeomorphic to a complete metric space must be a Baire Space: the intersection of a countable family of open dense sets must be dense. But $\mathbb{Q}$ does not have this property, because it is countable and no point is isolated: for each $q\in\mathbb{Q}$, let $\mathscr{O}_q = \mathbb{Q}\setminus\{q\}$. This is open (since $\{q\}$ is closed in $\mathbb{R}$, hence in the induced topology of $\mathbb{Q}$) and dense, since every open ball with center in $\mathbb{q}$ intersects $\mathscr{O}_q$. But
$$\bigcap_{q\in\mathbb{Q}} \mathscr{O}_q = \emptyset$$
is not dense. Hence $\mathbb{Q}$ is not a Baire space, hence cannot be homeomorphic to a complete metric space (or even to an open subset of a complete pseudometric space).