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The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Weirdbeardgame@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wish for one electron to disappear from every atom. The net result would be that all atoms would now have a positive charge.

True, it would not only end all life on earth, but also destroy the entire earth. But everything would be positive.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mandatory XKCD, sort of.

TL;DR

It breaks the whole universe. That's a lot of charge density over a very substantial area.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I love that he never even touched proton earth, which would really release some energy. Not sure how bad the collapse of the strong force in that nucleus would be, but I can't imagine that a proton mass 6x more massive than the electron moon would have any less spectacular of a result.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are plenty of atoms/molecules that have greater negative ionization states than -1. This wouldn't even make everything neutral.

Captain Pedant... AWAAAAYYYY.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

OTOH, if you shifted the ionization state of every single atom, then pretty much every molecule would end up flying apart. You can't form H2O if hydrogen has no electrons at all; hydrogen becomes a single proton.