First wish was to repeal Bernoulli's principle
The second was doubling the mass of a photon
First wish was to repeal Bernoulli's principle
The second was doubling the mass of a photon
Mine would be to remove a chromossome from evangelicals lol
one chromosome per person seems easy to recover from
Personally I'd add chromosomes to them, let's see what happens when you add 50 extra chromosomes to a person.
Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency of 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.
Kinda hard when there's only one electron in the universe.
There’s also only one brain cell that we all share.
Doesn't that make it waaaaaaaay easier?
Double all constants
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.
Constants are known at compile time, and therefore are more performant as they don’t need to be reasoned about at runtime.
These days it’s not much of a performance boost but never a bad idea to use constants where appropriate.
I want one random atom to be one plank unit shifted to the left at the beginning of the universe.
🦋
Did you just initiate the big bang?
I'd go with making each next proton in the universe an anti proton
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 ;-)
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 ;-)
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?
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.)
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 ;-)
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.
Don't know about that
Can you provide me some more words to search for it or even a link?
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.
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.
wishes are basically reality warping to varying extent, although most wishes dont work on a universal scale
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