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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.
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.
Oh, you are right...
Sorry, handwriting recognition sometimes has its own mind.
And this error must have slipt my prove reading as it is just too well camouflaged...
Using a drawing pad for typing, and spelling the word “slipt” !?! could a prophet truly be among us???
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.
Coincidently I watched the X-Files episode a few weeks back.
I loved it!
It is one of their more dark comedy ones with some philosophical topics.
No "true wish" at the end, as far I remember, but a nice twist and imo quite satisfying ending.
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.
Look into projection theory. a 3d object casts a 2d shadow, so a 4d object would cast a 3d shadow. The implications of that are wild.
Are you referring to the holographic principal?
My dad is a mathematician and loves to play with it. He's got entire notebooks with it but unfortunately nothing profound (he was a professor for years). Mostly just proofs resulting in what's already been published (not sure why, maybe he's looking for something or just thinks it's cool?)
Can the wish include a --dry-run option before going for it fully?
That's the Chris and Jack sketch currently listed above somewhere in this thread on my client.
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.
go with the one electron theory, how can you add an elecron to every atom when there's already only one electron in the whole universe.
boooring now do the apocalypse
The genie granted two wishes at once. The other was from a speed runner.
During the race, an ionizing particle from outer space collided with DOTA_Teabag's N64, flipping the eighth bit of Mario's first height byte. Specifically, it flipped the byte from 11000101 to 11000100, from "C5" to "C4". This resulted in a height change from C5837800 to C4837800, which by complete chance, happened to be the exact amount needed to warp Mario up to the higher floor at that exact moment.
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.
This assumes the genie doesn't have access to some weird higher-reality or higher-"dimensional" power. For instance, if the universe is a simulation, then perhaps the genie has access to a console.
real question, is there a difference?
In 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.
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.
Genie, while looking up Wikipedia:
Aah, I understand. Nice wish, granted!
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.
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."
I don't know either, I just think the consequences would be universally negative.
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.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
Is there an XKCD What If about this? Sounds exactly like that territory.
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 single, extra electron. Easy peasy:-).
This reminds me of the sketch from Chris and Jack, where one person tries to outsmart a genie with the perfect wish and almost succeeds, but ultimately fails.
Chris n Jack are hilarious!
Fun fact : Jack is Jack de sena - Voice actor of sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender.
They have cameos from other voice actors from the show as well in their skits.
Did someone read The Laundry Files? What you are describing is approximately used in making a Basilisk Gun
False vacuum ... expansion?
1.) I wish the speed of light were 60 MPH.
2.) I wish nothing could travel slower than light.
3.) I wish for the genie's freedom.
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...
or would mess with the chemical bonds of all chemistry, likely breaking up every single molecule into individual atoms, immediately killing everyone and destroy everything
Lots of things become conductive.
Sounds like a case for xkcd's what if
