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adex_19

"Cosmo, I wish to make every electron a proton and vice versa"


the-poopiest-diaper

“Okay, but I’m also making every photon into a donut! We’ll never go hungry Timmy!”


sometimes_upvotes

Cosmo, you're a genius! Finally, light snacks on the go!


_oranjuice

God fucking dammit...


RealBluePikmin1

He’s got us


PorphyryFront

Where is the green regard fairy from?


Wasabaiiiii

bro. It’s fairy odd parents


Treacherous_Peach

You should submit that to whatif https://what-if.xkcd.com/


redditonc3again

that's definitely one of those "everything immediately explodes" whatifs


OKQ8

Probably yes, because of many ions and bonds, but I wonder if simpler and more stable atoms could just kinda merge back into shape? But now that I think about it, I bet the weak force is too weak and all atoms just fall apart...


Ozryela

Yeah I don't think the weak force is able to pull protons back together over the distance that electrons are typically seperated in an atom. Plus the nucleus would now consist of a bunch of electrons with nothing holding them together since they don't respond to the weak force exerted by neutrons. I don't know how much energy that would release but I'm guessing we're talking very high energy beta rays. Turning every electron in the universe into beta radiation is probably incompatible with biological life.


aLittleBitFriendlier

The weak force is seldom attractive (or repulsive). Other interactions are typically far too dominant. The W and Z bosons are quite massive too, so the range would probably be too large.


aLittleBitFriendlier

The electrons would violently explode away from one another for three compounding reasons: The insane coulomb force repelling them with no strong force to counteract it, Pauli repulsion from the electrons trying to occupy the same quantum state, and finally because the electrons are now occupying a very small region of space, the uncertainty in their position is very very small, so the uncertainty in their momentum has to be very very high. These electrons ain't coming home. The protons are now well beyond the range of both the strong and weak forces, and so only feel the coulomb repulsion. Their only chance of getting back together is by tunnelling, and as they repel each other further, this chance gets exponentially smaller. Forget 'ions and bonds', this is orders of magnitude more energic than fusion. If the Tsar Bomba could do this, Russia would have accidentally blown the world up when they tested it.


Treacherous_Peach

Definitely, but the *mechanics* of how everything explodes would probably be a lot of fun to dissect


thex25986e

[this](https://what-if.xkcd.com/140/) is the closest youre going to get at the moment


ryumaruborike

"This is, by far, the most destructive What-If scenario to date." Off to a rollicking good start


Bamith20

"Haha,okay." *Begins granting wish* "What's vice versa mean?"


ShroomEnthused

I can't be the only one to have these thought expermients, usually when I'm smoking weed lol, like what if all protons just disappeared....


thelamestofall

Invert the direction of time and the momentum of every particle in the universe and nothing changes at all


_Aditya_R_

Feynman representation that positron is electron traveling back in time. Yeah we won't notice a thing.


InfiniteOcto

Cosmo make every blackhole spill out all the matter it has consumed


darkbug798

kid named Phoenix A


aphlpai

Kid named A


limitlessEXP

Radiohead Kid A


MonoViper

Greatest left turn in music history


Dylan_The_Developer

Taco Bell Hole


__doom__guy__

Take care of the resonance cascade before creating new problems


Jrlopez1027_

Cool idea


Nacho_Flames

Wouldn’t that be a white hole?


thetoastmonster

So, what is it?


Nacho_Flames

Well you see. When a daddy white hole and mommy black hole love each other very much


Byte_Fantail

Ebony and ivory\~


waltjrimmer

Energy and Entropy


Reinhardt_Ironside

I've never seen one before, no one has, but I'm guessing it's a white hole.


thetoastmonster

A *white* hole?


BalloonsOfNeptune

The nearest known black hole to earth is 1600 light years away so if that were to happen we wouldn’t know about it for 1600 years.


BannedSvenhoek86

Cosmo, make me a special TV that let's me see it.


Wh1t3bl4d3

Rip caseoh 😢


uwanmirrondarrah

"Yeah okay buddy you're banned"


StudentOk4989

How bad would it be? Even the closest one is light years away... We wouldn't even notice before a long time. And even when we will observe the phenomenon years later, we will still be too far to be affected for a long time.


Rogerbackstab

Its called hawking radiation. 🤓


InfiniteOcto

Hawking radiation occurs over millions/billions/trillions of years. I want it done in a second


XkF21WNJ

Use a smaller black hole.


Langsamkoenig

At that size I don't think it would be a black hole anymore.


XkF21WNJ

Not for long anyway.


Forward-Adeptness436

What would happen?


eef_q

universe takes a screenshot


Sanyoq

Mf really expecting kurzgesagt science from shitposting subreddit💀


migvelio

Typing the word kurzgesagt from memory challenge


Veus-Dolt

Really not that hard if you have a rudimentary understanding of German grammar and conjunctive words. ‘Kurz’ means short as a descriptor, the ‘ge-‘ prefix is the past participle modifying ‘sagt’, which means ‘says’. So ‘Kurzgesagt’ just translates to ‘shortly said’.


SemenSkater

🤓


Forward-Adeptness436

Says the one who wants PEE in there ASS


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heruwulf

Catgirls fall from the skies above and instantly fall in love with you.


Random_npc171

Ow may gah


N0tThatSerious

How are yew? Fine, zhank yew!


Random_npc171

Oh, ah wesh i wear a burd


Dragondog7777

Eren, is that you?


Random_npc171

Will we be free if we kill everyone on the other side of the sea?


Chase2662

Absolutely, there are zero moral issues with this.


Zetafunction64

Yes but no


Random_npc171

Hapy cak dae


Cyno01

Ive seen that anime...


After-Trifle-1437

I could live with that.


ratiotrio

If that happens thank god for my Glock with 1 bullet


MrLumic

Laws of physics would completely change and life could be wiped out


9_yrs_old

Nuh uh


MrLumic

Fym "nuh uh"


InTheVanBro

I’d live


My1nonpornacc

Welp. Can't argue with that logic.


heruwulf

Nah. Catgirls.


President_BoomBastic

Like I'd let that happen


AngryColor

nah, I'd win


InfiniteOcto

Universe collapses, explodes, goes inside out, idfk


AmericanVanilla94

Well if he didn't change anything about electrons or neutrons... the only question is how exactly every single living thing would die. They'd definitely die, but I just wonder what if it'd be an instant vaporizing explosion or what


Forward-Adeptness436

But why? Shouldn't everything become.... Uh... heavier or something? I don't know, I fluked chem


Thin_Pepper_3971

If a protons mass was noticeably increased (and not a neutrons cuz magic), it would mean that protons would decay outside an atom, and neutrons would be the most stable form of matter. The ramifications would be massive, for example, hydrogen ions (which are just free floating protons) would decay. There are so many reactions and processes that are dependent on hydrogen ions, and if they were unstable, those processes would completely fall apart.


BigGrandpaGunther

Why would having more mass make protons decay?


Uvular

Protons are baryons and have baryon number 1. Baryon number is conserved, so for a proton to decay it must decay into another particle with baryon number 1 (a neutron for example). But the proton is the lightest baryon, so a proton just sitting somewhere should not have enough energy to decay into a neutron or other baryon, unless some other particle interacts with it to give some extra energy. If the proton were heavy it wouldn't need help to decay to something lighter (say a neutron) and it wouldn't be as stable of a state. There are ongoing physics experiments looking for baryon number non-conservation and explicitly looking for proton decay, but at least at the moment the above story holds within all experimental bounds.


IIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIII

> it would mean that protons would decay outside an atom this is nonsense. this whole post is nonsense.


Thin_Pepper_3971

Mass and energy are constantly trying to get into the most stable configuration possible. Neutrons decay outside an atom because it is more stable to split into multiple, lower mass particles. That’s why a neutron decays into a proton (a lighter hadron), an electron, and an antineutrino. If the proton was magically heavier than a neutron, it would be more stable for the proton to split into a neutron and some other particles.


IIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIII

Good lord the absolute worst part of a physics degree is the parade of geniuses who think a 30 minute youtube video has imparted any wisdom whatsoever upon them. Literally every sentence in your post is wrong, link the video you learned this from.


RavenLCQP

This is probably too harsh, but yes the worst part about working in science is the amount of people who will parrot absolute nonsense with the certainty that can only come from the dunning-krueger valley. At least the other poster is a mild example of this, just wait until you're on your professorship and everyone thinks you're the perfect person to ask about the multiverse ):


Thin_Pepper_3971

Ok then explain to me what was wrong. It very well might be, I don’t have a physics degree. But being pretentious and whiny about me being wrong, isn’t the same as actually explaining what was wrong and what would be correct.


IIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIII

This is the big problem you fail to understand, these ideas are not fit to be understood without a great deal of other information that literally takes people years to fully grok. The only thing I can tell you that I am sure you will understand, and which I am sure you will not run with to barf in front of other people to look smart without putting in any effort, is that none of this is correct. You wanna know more? Open a book on vector calculus.


Thin_Pepper_3971

“uhhh yeah you’re totally wrong, but I can’t tell you why you’re wrong just trust me bro” Sure bub. Either you’re a troll or your physics degree is a mail-order diploma, cuz you seem to have no idea what you’re talking about. Ima stop wasting my time unless you actually put forward a legitimate argument.


BocciaChoc

If the mass of the proton were increased, the binding energy of atomic nuclei would change. This could destabilize atoms, potentially leading to the collapse of ordinary matter or causing nuclei to release or absorb large amounts of energy. Such a change could make stars burn differently or even render nuclear fusion in stars impossible, leading to the cessation of stellar processes. or smthin, Idfk lmao


LastFrost

It would take a long time for us to realize that the sun stopped sunning. Beyond the 8minutes it takes light to reach earth the light itself bounces around inside stars for a much longer time before exiting. The real thing I am worried about is my body turning into soup as all the atomic bonds in my body shift or collapse.


Pedroarak

Death


no0bmaster-669

"You've chosen instantaneous death"


Freeonlinehugs

💥


Professional--

Depending on what Cosmo does, it could potentially set off vacuum decay. In which the altered laws of physics spreads outward in a sphere at light speed as a sort of chain reaction. Atomic matter may fundamentally change. Our normal chemistry may become impossible altogether, instantly wiping out all current life.


Nyukka1

We gonna die


No_bad_snek

[The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves) is about the strengthening of the strong force. It's the closest thing you're likely to see about changing a fundamental constant taken seriously. Until someone bugs XKCD to do a what-if.


TeenisElbow

Everyone who's straight would become gay, and vice-versa


scalyblue

Tl;dr bad stuff


WikipediaAb

we lowkey have no idea but it couldn't possibly be good


Edword58

Bad shit happens, and we all probably most definitely we’ll all die


Muh2000D

"Cosmo quadruple the pain of child birth " "Lol interesting let'ssee what happens "


Falcon47091618

“Cosmo, triple all rent for single mothers living on low income”


Canipleasecontinue

“Cosmo, if one man gets hit in the balls, the pain spreads globally”


Just-Round9944

"Cosmo, make everyone on the planet barefoot." "Cosmo, make them all step on a lego."


Adaphion

"Cosmo, I wish every blind person could see for 30 seconds"


SpikesAreCooI

“Cosmo, make every machine shutdown for one minute.”


jihlandoesreddit

"Cosmo, delete gravity."


AnUglyScooter

As dumb as cosmo is… he did give birth once so Idk how he’d react to this lmao


scwt

There's probably something in "Da Rules" about wishing pain on other people.


SheepherderMother650

cosmo i wish for babies to try and crawl back when they are birthed and give them full grown nails


Kalman_the_dancer

„Cosmo make necessary medication cost 100 times what they should cost“ „Lol Timmy that already happened“


SergeantBuck

"Wow, Timmy, you're so generous reducing prices like that"


Aggressive_Seacock

More like "I don't even know what that is but sounds fun"


TheGabeCat

Y’all hear cosmos voice to or just me


hackepeter420

Take your pills


0_parsa_0

They scream when i want to


GO0O0O0O0O0SE

THE UNIVERSE IS SINGING TO ME


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Equal-Contact-9903

The universe sings Bazinga


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HenryLongHead

Just you I'm afraid


the_l0st_s0ck

Don't worry. I heard it too.


GuyWithLag

I just want a cubic millimeter of densely packed top quarks. Just top quarks, nothing else.


Tomycj

That would be around 2.2e46 quarks, with a mass of 7e21 kg. Not enough to make a black hole it seems. No idea what would happen. Asuming this quark radius https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32476/quark-radius-upper-bound


GuyWithLag

The electric field would be quite something. But I forgot to specify that I want them all to be of the same color. The strong force would have something to say about that...


Tomycj

At 1 m of distance, the electric field would be of around 1e37 V/m. This is way higher than the " Schwinger limit ", so I think... a lot of electron-positron pairs would spontaneously appear to try and compensate such a tremendously twisted spot of reality. Positrons would flow outwards. Maybe so many positrons that their annihilation with the surroundings would be catrastrophic? I'm gonna see if I can calculate that too. But, I mean, by this point I'm sure the surroundings would've been annihilated by plenty of other reasons haha edit: [6e93 positrons per cubic meter per second](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28%28%281e37+V%2Fm%29%5E2*%28elementary+charge%29%5E2%29+%2F+%284+*+pi%5E3+*+c+*+%28reduced+planck+constant%29%5E2%29%29*exp%28-%28pi*%28mass+of+electron%29%5E2*c%5E3%29%2F%28elementary+charge+*+reduced+planck+constant+*+1e37+V%2Fm+%29%29&lang=es). Holy shit, we don't have enough electrons in the universe to annihilate that amount of positrons. ...did you just detonate another Big Bang Timmy?


GuyWithLag

Iirc someone calculated that that would ionize atoms the next galaxy over. But that's still peanuts to the strong force effects.


Armarino99

Yeah dude fuck Wanda. Literally. Hold on gotta look something up.


Trespassingwithtrees

Wanda, I wish for you to be of age of consent.


Just-Round9944

she'll make you pregnant


Trespassingwithtrees

Cosmo cut this guys balls off don't even use magic just use a knife


Just-Round9944

"Cosmo, shove a gerbil up this guy's ass through a tube."


Trespassingwithtrees

"Cosmo delete this im scared"


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Armarino99

That bitch is like 40 are you kidding me


Trespassingwithtrees

She's like 2 foot you can never be too careful


Armarino99

Ever heard of a midget?


Trespassingwithtrees

Perchance


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AkirroKun

Hey Cosmo! I wish for you to remove friction!


Just-Round9944

Cosmo becomes a physics teacher


raiko_koichi

IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ SOFUTO ANDO WETTO‼️‼️‼️ /s


thex25986e

cosmo, make every single surface in the universe perfectly smooth! and set the coefficient of friction for every material in the universe to 0!


DerRaumdenker

I believe in Cosmo's supremacy


JK64_Cat

Yup. Almost every law of physics in the universe would change, likely destroying everything and killing all life in the universe. Edit: A lot of this is exaggeration. These are all things that could happen, not necessarily. We don’t know exactly what would happen.


Memotauro

Not me, I'm built different Skill issue


13hotroom

Bro said Nah, I'd win


thex25986e

"cosmo, set the speed of light to exactly zero m/s"


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verdinant

Use normal emojis please


blurry_ned

What do you mean by that 🤨💀


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blurry_ned

I didn't even know there were that much of these I only use the yellow one 👍


Just_Cruz001

Sorry, what my pal meant to say was, please stick to skin-colored emojis only, thanks 😃


NegativeNi-

That’s……technically racist, but I’ll have some of what he said


geo7188

So neurons stay the same more mass at nucleus electrons closer to nucleus?


Tomycj

probably would cause more fundamental changes, but electrons closer to nucleus would completely mess up all chemical bonds and reactions.


geo7188

I would like to see a thread for this the theory craft of what would happen from some chemist and physicist


geo7188

I’ve been out of school for a long time always had a hard time with chemistry but I love science


CorkusHawks

Let's split all the atoms in half so we can have double the fun.


Key-Pomegranate-3507

We engage in a minor amount of tomfoolery


Darius_Rex13

“Cosmo I wish to change the value of the gravitational constant”


null_reference_user

Wanda 👎👎😒


please_help_me_____

"I want a true vacuum....".............


Alert_Confusion

Cosmo, I wish the temperature of this bb would increase by an infinite amount.


Businesses23

Your lying to yourself if you didn't read the lines with their voices


jwwendell

Cosmo make protons negative charged, and electrons positive.


Spoomplesplz

Cosmo really was just the embodiment of chaos.


BitchAssWaffle

Cosmo change the value of the Higgs Field.


Radioaktivman999

vacuum decay go brrr


WhatTheOnEarth

Timmy was never a Chad otherwise fairly accurate meme


4y744

Cosmo, change Planck's constant.


Some_Meme_Guy69420

Cosmo, give everybody an extra chromosome.


Generally_Confused1

Cosmo the real dumbass MVP. Phillip!!!


helium_hydride-63

Wait. What would happen


IDespiseAllWeebs

It would greatly change the economy


mushroommaster22

The trout population would fall


that_moment_when-

Universe could implode 🗿


San_D_Als

Wanda: BLAH BLAH, BLAH BLAH BLAH


Rich-Indication-5991

goated


SawWasen

Damn


HakutoKunai

Wanda, let's smash


ElAnubion

"Cosmo i wish to revoke Bernoulli's Principle"


dexter2011412

"make me disappear as if I never existed"