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You are given an opportunity to hard reset our universe (particularly, the Earth). You are also allowed to change one rule about the new universe. What rule would you change? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Marighost@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.

Some examples might be:

The invention of currency is not allowed.
Iron is slightly less stable.
The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.

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[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

What about going after the law of conservation of energy?😈

What if energy can be created, destroyed and conserved now? :)

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no the big bang deatroyed all energy.

Nothingness.

[-] Messk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but in this place nothingness creates energy.. so like mini big bangs going off everywhere? Or we talking like zero point energy? Which opens up a bag of worms in our dimension where particles exist and don't so they're coming and going from somewhere, maybe this energy dimension lol.

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, I wanted to break this law so that we can have infinite energy sources (fun stuff) and to be able to destroy ~useless energy (like thermal energy which is a byproduct of probably all energy conversions), thus reducing entropy and other fun stuff.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I was just teasing you. That actually seems like one of the more fun ones here... Though there's some frightening implications.

[-] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Haha thanks :)

And yeah, this could probably quickly either wipe us out (along with possibly everything else) or help us flourish (along with the rest of the world)

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