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To cosmic shreds, I say!

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    First wish was to repeal Bernoulli’s principle

    The second was doubling the mass of a photon

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    • DevDave@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What would that do to a star’s interior?

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      • Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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 the gravity and internal pressures and disrupting 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. 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.

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      • SilentKnight1369@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Its turns the universe into a nuke…

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    • teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bah. Give photons the same charge as electrons. That outta show those SOBs.

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    • Jakylla@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
      • Switch all protons and neutrons of the universe
      • Set PI = 3
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      • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Who says pi has to be a constant at all?

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Photons don’t have mass tho

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    • Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mine would be to remove a chromossome from evangelicals lol

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    • Sasquatch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      one chromosome per person seems easy to recover from

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        1000004216

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Depends which one, I guess 🤷🏻

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Personally I’d add chromosomes to them, let’s see what happens when you add 50 extra chromosomes to a person.

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    • solidheron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lol just an x chromosome lol. Don’t worry about the men

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency of fusion from hydrogen to helium, to be from 0.007 into 0.006?

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  • stretch2m@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Kinda hard when there’s only one electron in the universe.

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    • plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      poor buddy gonna have to work overtime

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

    🦋

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    • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Did you just initiate the big bang?

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?

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  • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Double all constants

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    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have a feeling you’ll love tau.

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      • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was talking more about physical constants, like magnetism, gravity, plank, etc. But sure, mathematical ones work, too. Probably even worse than physical constants doubling, since the doubling of mathematical ones would imply the corruption of reality itself.

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Constants are known at compile time, and therefore are more performant as they don’t need to be reasoned about at runtime.

        These days it’s not much of a performance boost but never a bad idea to use constants where appropriate.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ;⁠-⁠)

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      • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.)

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      • DevDave@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wishes are basically reality warping.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • liuther9@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Make all molecules to behave differently if observed

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what-if.xkcd.com/140/

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  • TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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