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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 39 minutes ago

I want one random atom to be one plank unit shifted to the left at the beginning of the universe.

🦋

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Did you just initiate the big bang?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 20 points 2 hours ago

That's your wish? It's really negative.

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Mine would be to remove a chromossome from evangelicals lol

[-] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

one chromosome per person seems easy to recover from

Yeah, except for Chromosomes Georg. He was an outlier and should not have been counted.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Depends which one, I guess 🤷🏻

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

I wish for water to no longer be a bipolar molecule.

[-] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 52 points 5 hours ago

First wish was to repeal Bernoulli's principle

The second was doubling the mass of a photon

[-] protist@retrofed.com 1 points 9 minutes ago

Photons don't have mass tho

[-] wieson@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago

Make Binomi a real renaissance Italian mathematician, so that we can finally know who came up with the binomial formulas.

[-] DevDave@piefed.social 15 points 5 hours ago

What would that do to a star's interior?

[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 25 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Just pour salt on the universe and make it turn inside out.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

This creates a white hole, and also destroys the universe.

/s

[-] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

[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.

[-] Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago

That's neat, but he said photon, as in the light particle

[-] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

The photons from the h must have been delayed due to their mass doubling.

[-] SilentKnight1369@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Its turns the universe into a nuke...

[-] Jakylla@jlai.lu 5 points 5 hours ago
  • Switch all protons and neutrons of the universe
  • Set PI = 3
[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 56 minutes ago

Pi can be equal to whatever you want, as long as you’re using a number base that accounts for it. Pi is only an irrational number because base-10 is a rational base. You could create a number base that sets pi equal to 1, if you wanted.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Who says pi has to be a constant at all?

[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 5 points 4 hours ago

Go ahead and sign up for a non-euclidean geometry course. Constant pi assumes flat geometry, and I'm ok with that.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Woah, that would be trippy

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Any chance this is one of those situations where granting the first wish would kill you before you could make the second wish?

[-] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Nah, except if you are in a plane

Although I am not sure if anything in the human body relies on the big berni, but if not you are golden

[-] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

I'd go with making each next proton in the universe an anti proton

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 hours ago

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 ;⁠-⁠)

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't know about that
Can you provide me some more words to search for it or even a link?

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

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.)

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

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 ;⁠-⁠)

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