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  • kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wish granted: the same electron is added to all atoms in the universe.

    This one single electron is created in a quantum state described by a wave function that is uniformly distributed over every atom in the universe. This wave function collapses nearly instantaneously to a single position, and the end result is that one random atom in the entire universe gains one electron.

    Nothing of interest happens.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Considering how intentionally malecious the side effects of typical genie-wishes tend to be, the extra electron probably comes to rest in the wishers hypophysis and causes a free radical that leads to a rare sort of cancer that prevents the wisher from falling asleep ever again, so he dies in madness scratching out his own eyes.
      0r something similar along that line.

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      • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        0r something similar along that line.

        I’m really bothered by that zero 0 instead of an o O.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        its like the wishmaster GENIE(djinn) which is really demons, since demons also grant wishes. he gives wishes but the wishes always have unintentional consequences if your not very specific. I think Xfiles there was a genie episode, where mulder was able to grant a “true wish” that end up negating everything(the bad wishes). or like shikon jewel which doesnt really grant a true wish to a person.

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    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      One-electron Universe

      Image

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      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s all fun and games until someone points out that anti-atoms are predicted to have identical properties to atoms.

        Then the whole chiral parity symmetry stuff gets involved, and you talk about quantized spacetime, and how come the entire universe is essentially perturbations on a continous universe spanning set of fields, and things start getting existential.

        I personally believe time is the real problem.

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      • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think this is much more challenging than oneock Minecraft

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can the wish include a --dry-run option before going for it fully?

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      • Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the Chris and Jack sketch currently listed above somewhere in this thread on my client.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        -whatif

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      go with the one electron theory, how can you add an elecron to every atom when there’s already only one electron in the whole universe.

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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well now there are two electrons in the universe and their job is way easier.

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The genie granted two wishes at once. The other was from a speed runner.

      thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-he…

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So that’s how matter won over antimatter.

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      • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Classic case of “history is written by the victors”. You only call it antimatter because it lost, if it won, you’d call it matter.

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    • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      boooring now do the apocalypse

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  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This reminds me of the sketch from Chris & Jack, where one person tries to outsmart a genie and almost succeeds, but still fails.

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    • pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Chris n Jack are hilarious!

      Fun fact : Jack is Jack de sena - Voice actor of sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender.

      They have cameos from other voice actors from the show as well in their skits.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1.) I wish the speed of light were 60 MPH.

    2.) I wish nothing could travel slower than light.

    3.) I wish for the genie’s freedom.

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
      1. Granted. The definition of a mile is now 1/60th of the distance travelled by light in an hour.
      2. This is already the case, as matter travels through time and space at the speed of light. The speed of light is the only speed, the only variable is how much of that speed is used in space or time.
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  • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like a case for xkcd’s what if

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The real question isn’t if the universe ends…

    It’s if the genie magic expands outward from the source at the speed of light, or if it’s instantaneous everywhere, which would allow information to be transmitted faster than the speed of light, allowing for violations of causality, and destroying our fundamental understanding of the universe before we all died.

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    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This assumes the genie doesn’t have access to some weird higher-reality or higher-“dimensional” power. For instance, if the universe is a simulation, then perhaps the genie has access to a console.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not if the universe is inside the genie.

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Image

        It’s genies all the way down.

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      • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No. It’s inside you. For listening to the genie.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      real question, is there a difference?

      I’m theory yes, but for any observer, it won’t matter and it’s all the same to them, as they cannot observe any difference in either case.

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    • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The fermion number conservation would be violated anyways.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Turns out, there’s a rule against exterminating all life in the universe with a wish, but the genie doesn’t know what an electron is or what adding one to every atom will do, so you’ve found yourself a loophole.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Genie, looking up Wikipedia:
      Aah, I understand. Nice wish, granted!

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      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Almost

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      • MrLLM@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t that make reality crash? Unless the genie can spawn all the electrons at once, but in that case you’d be talking to god.

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m a physicist, not a genie, and I have no fucking clue what adding an electron to every atom would do. I can’t even begin to fathom the question.

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      • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t know either, I just think the consequences would be very negative.

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      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Whatever it is that happens, it would be pretty violent.
        “What If” had a slightly different, more localized but more concentrated premise it covered once:
        Electron Moon

        Quote:
        “This is, by far, the most destructive What-If scenario to date.”

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      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        break all chemical bonds immediately, there will probably be further consequences regarding a universal electron imbalance, but we would already be atomised

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  • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did someone read The Laundry Files? What you are describing is approximately used in making a Basilisk Gun

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    just choose an electron somewhere random in the universe, and declare said electron to be the legal property of every atom in the universe. problem solved

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    • Tilgare@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think in this way, one universe was obliterated and ours was created at the big bang.

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      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams

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      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        seriously, a single meaningless executive order or law. could make that wosh happen without ant magic

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  • swagmoney@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my wish is to change the mass of the proton.

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    • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To 23 lbs

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  • Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What will 1 extra electron do? Destroy universe?

    Is it like every Proton has an anti-proton and if it wasnt perfectly balanced the universe would fall apart? Ive heard something like that before…

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      or would mess with the chemical bonds of all chemistry, likely breaking up every single molecule into individual atoms, immediately killing everyone and destroy everything

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    • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lots of things become conductive.

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’ll be like a Coulombic explosion, but with an excess of negative instead of positive charges.
      Everywhere in the universe where matter lumps together, it would disintegrate.

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  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is there an XKCD What If about this? Sounds exactly like that territory.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not 100% identical scenario, but near enough:
      what-if.xkcd.com/140/

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    • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Idk, but if not, I bet there’s an SMBC with an exponential implosion of the nonsense and then some.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ls this some kind of problem at all?
    I mean, it is not wishing to add an electron to each atom in the Universe…

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t get the difference

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      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        See e.g. here.

        The relevant part:

        The second difference between each, every, and all impacts how the objects of a sentence are distributed among the members of the group. Look at this:

        Each child wore a hat. → one hat per child

        Every child wore a hat. → one hat per child

        All the children wore a hat. → the children shared one hat

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      To the set of all atoms in the universe, add one extra electron, easy peasy:-).

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    • Butterbee@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Good catch

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    False vacuum … expansion?

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