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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 77 points 3 days ago

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

[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 88 points 3 days ago (7 children)

First wish was to repeal Bernoulli's principle

The second was doubling the mass of a photon

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What would that do to a star's interior?

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

/s

[–] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

[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.

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[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Jakylla@jlai.lu 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)
  • Switch all protons and neutrons of the universe
  • Set PI = 3
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who says pi has to be a constant at all?

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] stretch2m@infosec.pub 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s also only one brain cell that we all share.

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Mine would be to remove a chromossome from evangelicals lol

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

[–] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

one chromosome per person seems easy to recover from

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

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago
[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a feeling you'll love tau.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I actually hate it, it should be reversed: π = 2 τ like it's visually fitting.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Idk why Ibread fisting

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was talking more about physical constants, like magnetism, gravity, planck, 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.

[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Make all molecules to behave differently if observed

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

🦋

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you just initiate the big bang?

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

wishes are basically reality warping to varying extent, although most wishes dont work on a universal scale

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days 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.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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