First wish was to repeal Bernoulli's principle
The second was doubling the mass of a photon
What would that do to a star's interior?
2 * 0 = 0
Doubling the mass of photons is no change.
Repealing Bournoulli's principle requires changing how kinetic collisions of molecules translates into bulk measurables like pressure and density. There's no way to predict what that does without first specifying more about what changes are made.
Just pour salt on the universe and make it turn inside out.
This creates a white hole, and also destroys the universe.
/s
[note: I thought the OP said "proton"]
Best case? atoms shrink slightly and some changes to how chemistry works
Realistic case? The change in nuclear binding energies renders protons unstable, making many elements unstable or radioactive. All matter suddenly becomes much heavier, changing gravity and internal pressure, which in turn disrupts stellar and planetary structures. Fusion reactions depend on precise mass differences between particles, which may alter how stars generate energy, or completely prevent them from forming altogether. Additionally, since proton mass is tied to the strong nuclear force, it will fundamentally alter physics, and it's likely that protons will decay into neutrons, preventing atoms from existing at all.
The first wish would affect how fluids act under pressure, including how our blood would move throughout our bodies. Depending on the exact effects, the wisher may not even get the chance to make the second wish because their blood would either stop moving, or they would drop to ground as every capillary in their body ruptures causing an immediate loss of blood pressure, quickly followed by loss of consciousness and then death.
IF they live long enough to make the second wish, then they probably wouldn't live long enough to make the third.
That's neat, but he said photon, as in the light particle
Wow, I totally missed that. I need to start wearing my glasses🤦♂️
I must have just assumed proton, since photons have zero rest mass and doubling that wouldn't change anything.
The photons from the h must have been delayed due to their mass doubling.
Bah. Give photons the same charge as electrons. That outta show those SOBs.
Who says pi has to be a constant at all?
Go ahead and sign up for a non-euclidean geometry course. Constant pi assumes flat geometry, and I'm ok with that.
Make Binomi a real renaissance Italian mathematician, so that we can finally know who came up with the binomial formulas.
That's your wish? It's really negative.
Mine would be to remove a chromossome from evangelicals lol
one chromosome per person seems easy to recover from
Yeah, except for Chromosomes Georg. He was an outlier and should not have been counted.
Personally I'd add chromosomes to them, let's see what happens when you add 50 extra chromosomes to a person.
Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency of fusion from hydrogen to helium, to be from 0.007 into 0.006?
Boom, now only hydrogen can be made.
Or if we put it to 0.008, boom, now everything fuses way faster.
Kinda hard when there's only one electron in the universe.
There’s also only one brain cell that we all share.
poor buddy gonna have to work overtime
I want one random atom to be one plank unit shifted to the left at the beginning of the universe.
🦋
Did you just initiate the big bang?
Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?
Double all constants
Ok, it's not 2PiR now, but just PiR. Given how often 2Pi is used some mathematicians will actually be happy. Would be a mess with other constants though.
Edit. Also all the people in IT will have a terrible week trying to figure out why their programs started working weird, then figuring out why they even need those constants. Log messages would be funny though.
I have a feeling you'll love tau.
I actually hate it, it should be reversed: π = 2 τ like it's visually fitting.
I'd go with making each next proton in the universe an anti proton
Maybe that's already the case, just out of our event horizon
There is, afaik, no explanation why there is more matter than anti matter, so maybe we just don't see it
Like, dark side of the universe or something ;-)
There is, afaik, no explanation why there is more matter than anti matter, so maybe we just don't see it
Like, dark side of the universe or something ;-)
This is the baryon asymmetry problem, and indeed, one of the proposed solutions is an "anti-universe" that flows backwards in time. The theory goes that all the antimatter travelled backwards in time while matter travelled forward from the Big Bang, creating a mirror anti-universe. However, there has been experimental evidence against this theory, as antiparticles seem to move forward in time, just like their matter counterparts.
There are a bunch more theories on how matter dominated the universe, like electroweak baryogenesis and leptopgenesis! Those are a bit more complicated though and are difficult to explain in an internet comment.
iirc the experiment was verifying that anti-matter falls downward in gravity? otherwise it still functions physically rather like time-reversed matter. Unless anti-matter is time-reversed and has reversed gravity in which case it would also seem to obey normal gravity because we would see it under the effect of anti-gravity but backwards?
Imma go ahead and postulate that beyond the observable universe is a wall of anti matter, that keeps eating our universe's matter and neutralizing it.
Prove me wrong! (Don't.)
Isn't that the opposite of what we're "seeing" now with the expanding universe and dark matter (not anti matter) being the reason for space to grow?
Anti matter and matter live inside the space, that dark matter is "producing"
At least that's my layman interpretation of looking at some videos and reading some stuff
So, I have no clue ;-)
I thought Madam Wu's experiment provided a starting point for explaining why the universe exists despite its best efforts to annihilate itself. Disclaimer, I have passing interest in physics but I have no formal education on any of it.
Don't know about that
Can you provide me some more words to search for it or even a link?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment
Wu was one of the few female physicist on the Manhattan project. Absolutely amazing what she accomplished despite having the double whammy of having to overcome racism as well as sexism. Currently on my watch list is a veritasm video that talks about her experiment.
wishes are basically reality warping to varying extent, although most wishes dont work on a universal scale
If the one-electron theory is true you could just double its charge and see what happens. Would only need to do it in one place for it to be everywhere.
Make all molecules to behave differently if observed
I wish for water to no longer be a bipolar molecule.
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