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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.
Can the wish include a --dry-run option before going for it fully?
That's the Chris and Jack sketch currently listed above somewhere in this thread on my client.
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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.
Well now there are two electrons in the universe and their job is way easier.
except that in the single electron theory, all electrons and positrons are the same object going back and forth through time, bouncing from the end of the universe and the big bang, adding another electron might double the mass in the universe
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.
I'm really bothered by that zero 0 instead of an o O.
Oh, you are right...
Sorry, handwriting recognition sometimes has its own mind.
And this error must have slipt my prove reading as it is just too well camouflaged...
Using a drawing pad for typing, and spelling the word “slipt” !?! could a prophet truly be among us???
No, just using the standard Gboard on Android. It has build-in handwriting recognition which for some reasons I like better than the standard virtual keyboard.
And regarding the remaining typing errors: just take them as an indication that I'm very likely not an AI ;-)
The "slipt" was probably caused by a false-friends-like scenario based on the translated word in my mother tongue: "entschlüpft".
Notice the added "t" at the end that denotes the past tense.
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.
Coincidently I watched the X-Files episode a few weeks back.
I loved it!
It is one of their more dark comedy ones with some philosophical topics.
No "true wish" at the end, as far I remember, but a nice twist and imo quite satisfying ending.
One-electron Universe
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.
Look into projection theory. a 3d object casts a 2d shadow, so a 4d object would cast a 3d shadow. The implications of that are wild.
Are you referring to the holographic principal?
My dad is a mathematician and loves to play with it. He's got entire notebooks with it but unfortunately nothing profound (he was a professor for years). Mostly just proofs resulting in what's already been published (not sure why, maybe he's looking for something or just thinks it's cool?)
I think this is much more challenging than One Block Minecraft
The genie granted two wishes at once. The other was from a speed runner.
https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-helped-super-mario-64-speedrunner-save-time/
So that's how matter won over antimatter.
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.
boooring now do the apocalypse