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Diabolical…..

Former situation: there is one electron

New situation: there are two electrons

You’re always so negative …

That was a great read. TIL. ✨

Genie is being lazy and interprets that as: Add one electron to the universe, and attach it to any of the atoms available.

or add more antimatter(3% more) at the beginning of the universe

I love this theory.

This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!

(Edited to link to a better article)

What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons?

That's not Interpretation, that a whole different thing.

Genie interprets as "every atom now shares this one extra electron"

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

This 'article' reads like someone asked ChatGTP this exact question. In other words: it reads like shit. Please never share again.

I'd add a proton, tbh

Suddenly quantum entanglement

Can someone ELI5 what would happen?

I am also Pro-Ton.

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 search for AI generated answer, and didn't ask ChatGPT, this is sadly what seach results looks like nowadays.

Will gladly edit the top comment if you can suggest a better article.

"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."

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.

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.

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.

What if it’s one extra neutron? >.>

Gotcha.

PS: you still have a "melectron" in there :D

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!

You've clearly never met a 5-year-old

Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.

Much better!

If we're all entangled, is anyone?

Damn seems like I can only find one typo at a time

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

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.

When I was younger, I would often splodey too when thinking about Carmen electron

They're making the electrons gay!

Isn't there a theory that there's only one electron or something?

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.

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

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.

For some reason you just explained the probability of the big bang. Some idiot made a wish, and poof, new universe.

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.

https://whatif.xkcd.com/140
Not quite the the same scale, but a similar idea is explored by Randall Moore. He explores a lot of weird questions like this and regularly consults scientists.

Same. And it sounded so silly I could imagine the look of hatred. But this explanation makes more sense.

But are you Pro Tonton?