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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.
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.
“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 minutely worse world, but as a bonus, every physicist who sees you will now be preternaturally certain that you are personally to blame. You’re welcome.”
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
They’re making the electrons gay!
What if it’s one extra neutron? >.>
Can someone ELI5 what would happen?
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.
For some reason you just explained the probability of the big bang. Some idiot made a wish, and poof, new universe.
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.
Same. And it sounded so silly I could imagine the look of hatred. But this explanation makes more sense.
Yeah, my first thought was “does that just break supersymmetry or something? What happens then?”
You’ve clearly never met a 5-year-old
Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.
It would probably go crunch not boom. https://whatif.xkcd.com/140
In the example in from that what if, they are putting a universe’s worth of mass in the volume of the moon, so it would create a super massive singularity. That’s not what is happening in here.
If every atom suddenly gained an electron, they would indeed increase in mass. But a hydrogen atoms would gain the most relative mass as it is the lightest atom, and that would only be an increase of 1/1837th of its total mass now, so… not that much. Masses of heavier atoms and the macro level matter made from them would increase in mass even more marginally. It would be a negligible difference, definitely not be enough for a singularity to form from this increase alone unless a star’s core were already riding that edge.
So their original determination would still be correct, that molecules would fly apart (atomized) and explode outward into the vacuum of space. Now, maaaaybe if the explosive force were enough to cause atoms to collide in space and at relativistic speeds, tiny singularities might form. But their combined negative charge would be far more powerful than their gravitational pull, and they would decay almost immediately, so… no crunch.
Grain of salt: I love physics, but I’m not a physicist.
When I was younger, I would often splodey too when thinking about Carmen electron
Much better!
I’m sorry but applying negativity or positivity to atoms and electrons is classic anthropomorphism.
Does anyone have a real explanation?
Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.
No no no you misunderstand the atom! At their heart they’re all positive, it’s just a shell of negativity due to fear of attachment!
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.
Genie is being lazy and interprets that as: Add one electron to the universe, and attach it to any of the atoms available.
That’s not Interpretation, that a whole different thing.
Add one extra electron to all the atoms in the universe – adds one electron to all the atoms but not one each for each atom
Edit: typo,typo2
Gotcha.
PS: you still have a “melectron” in there :D
Damn seems like I can only find one typo at a time
Genie interprets as “every atom now shares this one extra electron”
Isn’t there a theory that there’s only one electron or something?
Suddenly quantum entanglement
If we’re all entangled, is anyone?
Barbaric.
Just make ionic bonds a little stickier for a minute.
Former situation: there is one electron
New situation: there are two electrons
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
I love this theory.
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.
Relevant short story: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
That was a great read. TIL. ✨
I’d add a proton, tbh
I am also Pro-Ton.
But are you Pro Tonton?
You’re always so negative …
Diabolical……
or add more antimatter(3% more) at the beginning of the universe
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