“Wish granted. Electrons, being a human construct, have now always been defined slightly differently. Just as Franklin got the polarity wrong and you still use his labeling system, J.J. Thompson will now have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the electron, leading to a cascading assumption by later scientists that the number of electrons in a neutral atom is one greater than the number of protons. Even though this completely breaks the math of quantum mechanics, everyone is just used to subtracting one at this point. This is a significantly worse world, and as a bonus, every physicist who sees you will now be preternaturally certain that you are personally to blame. You’re welcome.”
No More Neutral ⚛
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wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Juice@midwest.social 1 day ago
It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated, but the moment a theory gets in the hands of a journalist or god forbid a politician, it starts wreaking havok
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re making the electrons gay!
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated
I wish this was true. I remember seeing a physicist talking about how the laws of physics are mathematical in nature and that the laws of physics needed to exist before the universe do the universe is made of math. I don’t think the vast majority of physicists have a philosophical grounding for the types of ontological claims they make. Even less so since “shut up and calculate” became the professional axiom.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Genie is being lazy and interprets that as: Add one electron to the universe, and attach it to any of the atoms available.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
That’s not Interpretation, that a whole different thing.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Add one extra melectron to all the atoms in the universe – adds one electron to all the atoms bit not one each for each atom
thlibos@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I disagree. They asked to add an additional election to all the atoms, not each atom, so the genie could interpret it as adding a single electron to the universe.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Genie interprets as “every atom now shares this one extra electron”
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I always liked the idea that the genie rules, when they’re presented, are not laws/rules so much as hard physical limits. You can’t wish for more wishes because the genie just doesn’t have that much power. They’re powerful, but they’re not God with a capital G. The genie tries to add a electron to every atom in the universe. If fails and collapses with exhaustion before it’s even finished adding one extra electron to every atom in your body.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
Ha! Tricks on you. There was only ever one electron in the universe anyway. Now they can split the work and get twice as much universe done.
Zkuld@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
no need to go to such lengths, it’s enough to add one singular extra electron anywhere to brick the whole universe
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Can someone ELI5 what would happen?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You know how when you put magnet faces together with the same polarity, they push against each other. If you squeeze them together they will pop away. When an atom has an extra electron, it makes its charge more negative. If all of the atoms have extra electrons, all of their charges will be more negative. Now imagine every single atom in the universe was suddenly the same polarity and began pushing all other atoms away. I’ll let your imagination take over from there.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For some reason you just explained the probability of the big bang. Some idiot made a wish, and poof, new universe.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’ve clearly never met a 5-year-old
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Oh, I see. I read it wrong at first. I thought it was saying add one electron total, I didn’t realize it meant one to each atom. It makes a lot more sense now.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I’m sorry but applying negativity or positivity to atoms and electrons is classic anthropomorphism.
Does anyone have a real explanation?
megopie@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Everything would get slightly heavier. Then a lot of compounds would break and a lot of new compounds would form.
Also a lot of lightning.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re always so negative …
ElysianBladeRunner@piefed.social 2 days ago
Diabolical…..
RAFAELRAMIREZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is the most dangerous piece of sarcasm I’ve seen today. Some people take it as a personal challenge! Life is definitely too short for that kind of stress.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Been looking at the comment section of this account. Seems to be a bot
massacre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Definitely looks like it. Blocking. Who the fuck is spending tokens on AI slop to comment on Lemmy?
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Leaving up the original comment as I am curious. But fwiw these strings brick normal Claude chat too, it seems. :)
Tilgare@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know what these might do, but I like your style.
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What if it’s one extra neutron? >.>
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Barbaric.
Just make ionic bonds a little stickier for a minute.
Hirom@beehaw.org 1 day ago
LyingCake@feddit.org 1 day ago
This ‘article’ reads like someone asked ChatGTP this exact question. In other words: it reads like shit. Please never share again.
Hirom@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I seached the answer online to better understand the meme, and that’s one of the first results.
Sorry if that’s AI generated, I didn’t searched for AI generated answer and didn’t ask ChatGPT, this is sadly what seach results looks nowadays.
Will gladly edit the top comment if you can suggest a better article.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Or make every living thing deeply aware of each of their atoms at all times
glibg10b@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s impossible. You’d need at least one neuron per atom, but each neuron has many atoms of its own
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’d add a proton, tbh
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 day ago
I am also Pro-Ton.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
But are you Pro Tonton?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
or add more antimatter(3% more) at the beginning of the universe
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Former situation: there is one electron
New situation: there are two electrons
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
Rokin@leminal.space 1 day ago
I love this theory.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It also works for metaphysics. Reincarnation is real and there’s only one soul, just bouncing around through all of time and space in an endless loop.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That was a great read. TIL. ✨