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.
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.
Wow, I totally missed that. I need to start wearing my glassesš¤¦āāļø
I must have just assumed proton, since photons have zero rest mass and doubling that wouldn't change anything.
Pi can be equal to whatever you want, as long as youāre using a number base that accounts for it. Pi is only an irrational number because base-10 is a rational base. You could create a number base that sets pi equal to 1, if you wanted.
Thatās exactly my point. A base pi system would have pi equal to 1. In a base pi number system, a circle with a radius of 1 would have a circumference of 10. A radius of 10 would be a circumference of 100. Etc⦠Pi (and the relationship between a circleās radius and circumference) only normally requires complex math because base 10 is a rational number base.
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.
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.
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 ;ā -ā )
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.
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?
My mind just melts when I try to understand dark matter and an expanding universe. And I'm a big astronomy guy, I eat that shit up! I even grasp time dilation to some extent. But the expanding universe, I just can't get my mind around it fully.
I thought Madam Wu's experiment provided a starting point for explaining why the universe exists despite its best efforts to annihilate itself. Disclaimer, I have passing interest in physics but I have no formal education on any of it.
Wu was one of the few female physicist on the Manhattan project. Absolutely amazing what she accomplished despite having the double whammy of having to overcome racism as well as sexism. Currently on my watch list is a veritasm video that talks about her experiment.
Yeah, CP violation is a big focus when it comes to the research of baryogenesis, the theoretical process that produced the baryon asymmetry! Her experiment established that parity symmetry (P) can be broken through weak interactions, and later experiments showed that the combined CP symmetry (charge conjugation + parity) can also be broken, again through weak force shenanigans.
CP violation is one of the three Sakharov conditions (which were proposed by and named after Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov) of dynamic baryogenesis, as it would mean that matter and antimatter can behave differently in certain processes. If they behaved identically, no asymmetry would be produced and they would both annihilate. However, there was one extra baryon for every million antibaryons (we know this through measurements of the CMB and the quantities of light elements produced in Big Bang nucleosynthesis), and this slight difference allowed matter to dominate the universe.
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.
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OldSageRick@lemmy.zip · 85 pts · 63d
First wish was to repeal Bernoulli's principle
The second was doubling the mass of a photon
DevDave@piefed.social · 25 pts · 63d
What would that do to a star's interior?
Fermion@feddit.nl · 44 pts · 63d
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 · 15 pts · 63d
Just pour salt on the universe and make it turn inside out.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 63d
This creates a white hole, and also destroys the universe.
/s
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 63d
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 63d
So what is it?
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 63d
[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.
Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 63d
That's neat, but he said photon, as in the light particle
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 63d
Wow, I totally missed that. I need to start wearing my glassesš¤¦āāļø
I must have just assumed proton, since photons have zero rest mass and doubling that wouldn't change anything.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 63d
The photons from the h must have been delayed due to their mass doubling.
SilentKnight1369@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d
Its turns the universe into a nuke...
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 63d
Bah. Give photons the same charge as electrons. That outta show those SOBs.
Jakylla@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 63d
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 63d
Who says pi has to be a constant at all?
Fermion@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 63d
Go ahead and sign up for a non-euclidean geometry course. Constant pi assumes flat geometry, and I'm ok with that.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 63d
Woah, that would be trippy
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 63d
Pi can be equal to whatever you want, as long as youāre using a number base that accounts for it. Pi is only an irrational number because base-10 is a rational base. You could create a number base that sets pi equal to 1, if you wanted.
xzinik@feddit.cl · 1 pts · 62d
what if i make a base pi system?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 61d
Thatās exactly my point. A base pi system would have pi equal to 1. In a base pi number system, a circle with a radius of 1 would have a circumference of 10. A radius of 10 would be a circumference of 100. Etc⦠Pi (and the relationship between a circleās radius and circumference) only normally requires complex math because base 10 is a rational number base.
wieson@feddit.org · 4 pts · 63d
Make Binomi a real renaissance Italian mathematician, so that we can finally know who came up with the binomial formulas.
protist@retrofed.com · 1 pts · 63d
Photons don't have mass tho
wewbull@feddit.uk · 72 pts · 63d
That's your wish? It's really negative.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 63d
Mine would be to remove a chromossome from evangelicals lol
Sasquatch@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 63d
one chromosome per person seems easy to recover from
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 63d
Yeah, except for Chromosomes Georg. He was an outlier and should not have been counted.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 63d
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 62d
Bruh
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 63d
Depends which one, I guess š¤·š»
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 63d
You could remove the X chromosome so all of them now have Y, but that is lethal.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 62d
Personally I'd add chromosomes to them, let's see what happens when you add 50 extra chromosomes to a person.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 63d
Lol just an x chromosome lol. Don't worry about the men
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 63d
Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency ofĀ 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.
stretch2m@infosec.pub · 26 pts · 63d
Kinda hard when there's only one electron in the universe.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 63d
Thereās also only one brain cell that we all share.
plutopos@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 63d
poor buddy gonna have to work overtime
SirActionSack@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 63d
Doesn't that make it waaaaaaaay easier?
OpenStars@piefed.social · 2 pts · 62d
Except that now there's a second - the genie is right to be pissed!? :-P
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 63d
Double all constants
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 63d
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 · 8 pts · 63d
I have a feeling you'll love tau.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 62d
I actually hate it, it should be reversed: Ļ = 2 Ļ like it's visually fitting.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 62d
Idk why Ibread fisting
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 63d
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.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 62d
Constants are known at compile time, and therefore are more performant as they donāt need to be reasoned about at runtime.
These days itās not much of a performance boost but never a bad idea to use constants where appropriate.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 63d
I want one random atom to be one plank unit shifted to the left at the beginning of the universe.
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multifariace@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 63d
Did you just initiate the big bang?
Zink@programming.dev · 4 pts · 62d
Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 62d
Masaka is waking!
Actually my fav episode though
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 63d
I'd go with making each next proton in the universe an anti proton
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 63d
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 ;ā -ā )
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 63d
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 pts · 62d
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 pts · 63d
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.)
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 63d
Isn't that the opposite of what we're "seeing" now with the expanding universe and dark matter (not anti matter) being the reason for space to grow?
Anti matter and matter live inside the space, that dark matter is "producing"
At least that's my layman interpretation of looking at some videos and reading some stuff
So, I have no clue ;ā -ā )
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
My mind just melts when I try to understand dark matter and an expanding universe. And I'm a big astronomy guy, I eat that shit up! I even grasp time dilation to some extent. But the expanding universe, I just can't get my mind around it fully.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 61d
Yeah, me too...
DevDave@piefed.social · 4 pts · 63d
I thought Madam Wu's experiment provided a starting point for explaining why the universe exists despite its best efforts to annihilate itself. Disclaimer, I have passing interest in physics but I have no formal education on any of it.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 63d
Don't know about that
Can you provide me some more words to search for it or even a link?
DevDave@piefed.social · 5 pts · 63d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_experiment
Wu was one of the few female physicist on the Manhattan project. Absolutely amazing what she accomplished despite having the double whammy of having to overcome racism as well as sexism. Currently on my watch list is a veritasm video that talks about her experiment.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 63d
Ah, I see, thank you!
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 62d
Yeah, CP violation is a big focus when it comes to the research of baryogenesis, the theoretical process that produced the baryon asymmetry! Her experiment established that parity symmetry (P) can be broken through weak interactions, and later experiments showed that the combined CP symmetry (charge conjugation + parity) can also be broken, again through weak force shenanigans.
CP violation is one of the three Sakharov conditions (which were proposed by and named after Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov) of dynamic baryogenesis, as it would mean that matter and antimatter can behave differently in certain processes. If they behaved identically, no asymmetry would be produced and they would both annihilate. However, there was one extra baryon for every million antibaryons (we know this through measurements of the CMB and the quantities of light elements produced in Big Bang nucleosynthesis), and this slight difference allowed matter to dominate the universe.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 63d
wishes are basically reality warping to varying extent, although most wishes dont work on a universal scale
Soup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
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.
liuther9@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 63d
Make all molecules to behave differently if observed
Hupf@feddit.org · 6 pts · 62d
https://what-if.xkcd.com/140/
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 63d
I wish for water to no longer be a bipolar molecule.