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[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 226 points 2 months ago (23 children)

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.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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