Submitted 21 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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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.
The genie granted two wishes at once. The other was from a speed runner.
Can the wish include a --dry-run option before going for it fully?
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.
0r something similar along that line.
I’m really bothered by that zero 0 instead of an o O.
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.
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.
I think this is much more challenging than oneock Minecraft
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
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.
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.
Not if the universe is inside the genie.
No. It’s inside you. For listening to the genie.
The fermion number conservation would be violated anyways.
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…
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.
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.
I don’t know either, I just think the consequences would be very negative.
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.”
Genie, looking up Wikipedia:
Aah, I understand. Nice wish, granted!
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.
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
I think in this way, one universe was obliterated and ours was created at the big bang.
Is there an XKCD What If about this? Sounds exactly like that territory.
Idk, but if not, I bet there’s an SMBC with an exponential implosion of the nonsense and then some.
ls this some kind of problem at all?
I mean, it is not wishing to add an electron to each atom in the Universe…
To the set of all atoms in the universe, add one extra electron, easy peasy:-).
Good catch
False vacuum … expansion?
regdog@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Did someone read The Laundry Files? What you are describing is approximately used in making a Basilisk Gun