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Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:21:09 2010 No.1239558 [Reply] [Original]

if you could change one (and only one) sign in any law of physics, which sign would you choose and what would the consequences be?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:21:09 2010 No.1239567 The one that prevents me from fucking that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:23:09 2010 No.1239573 >>1239567 >Implying you can't rape

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:27:09 2010 No.1239592 E=MC^2 becomes E=MC^C MORE ENERGY, MORE POWER!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:28:09 2010 No.1239603 >>1239592 a "SIGN" you gigantic transvestite

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:30:09 2010 No.1239608 instead of sqrt(-1), make i^2 = -1 so that sqrt(-1) = i (positive number) And call them complex numbers >trollface.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:30:09 2010 No.1239610 i would make entropy negative. so we keep gaining energy out of nowhere.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:30:09 2010 No.1239612 File: 43 KB, 604x402, 1266901394634.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] G = m1m2G/r^2 to G = m1m2G/(-r)^2

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:31:09 2010 No.1239616 File: 3 KB, 128x110, 9cab6787646062d6e658cd1e83ad468f.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR PRECIOUS LIGHT WAVES, MORTALS.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:31:09 2010 No.1239619 F = G((m1m2)/r^2) changed to F = -G((m1m2)/r^2) Fuck you, everything repels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:32:09 2010 No.1239624 >>1239612 >>1239619 Law of gravitationmind

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:32:09 2010 No.1239625 >>1239619 You have it backwards, bro. The negative implies an attractive force. The first one you wrote is repulsive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:32:09 2010 No.1239626 Take the equation for the strong nuclear reaction, place a negative in front of it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:32:09 2010 No.1239627 make Darcy's Law negative

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:33:09 2010 No.1239631 File: 17 KB, 1648x61, fas.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:35:09 2010 No.1239645 Make like charges attract and opposites repel. F=-k q1q2/r^2 instead of +k q1q2/r^2 Atoms rip themselves apart and collect in large pools of either positive or negative charge.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:35:09 2010 No.1239651 >>1239627 that would just be weird...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:36:09 2010 No.1239658 >>1239558 E = - m c^2

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:36:09 2010 No.1239659 >>1239627 >>1239631 you faggots need to explain the consequences or else you don't know wtf you're talking about

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:36:09 2010 No.1239661 >>1239625 Uh, no. The first one is Newton's law of universal gravitation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:37:09 2010 No.1239669 >>1239625 r^2 = gravitation r = electromagnetic

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Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:39:09 2010 No.1239683

>>1239661
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation#Vector_form

Since you were clearly not talking about the magnitude of the force (magnitude cannot be negative) I assume you are talking about a vector form.

No worries, bro. Apology accepted.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:39:09 2010 No.1239689 >>1239676 DAYUM

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:40:09 2010 No.1239691 >>1239669 >r^2 = gravitation >r = electromagnetic ... wut

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:40:09 2010 No.1239694 >>1239612 <span class="math"> (inline) r^2 = -r^2 [/spoiler] lets see if I can TeX

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:40:09 2010 No.1239698 File: 8 KB, 910x48, fer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:41:09 2010 No.1239706 >>1239683 I stand thoroughly corrected, and am humbled.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:41:09 2010 No.1239704 The electrons pull on the atom making masses of energy fly out and matter distabilized. POWER THIRST!

Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:43:09 2010 No.1239714

<div class="math">F_G=G m_{1} m_{2} r^{-2}</div>
becomes
<div class="math">F_G=G m_{1} m_{2} r^{+2}</div>

Objects closer together feel little gravity from one another. Force increases with the square of distance. A small object far away pulls you harder than the Earth you stand on. All hell breaks loose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:43:09 2010 No.1239715 >>1239698 >>1239631 samefag it would be nice if you understood what those equaions mean

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:44:09 2010 No.1239717 first law of thermodynamics lol.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:44:09 2010 No.1239723 >>1239706 >I stand thoroughly corrected, and am humbled. Well in that case, my apologies for being a dick about it :P

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:47:09 2010 No.1239732 >>1239715 who says I don't?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:48:09 2010 No.1239734 >>1239732 I say you don't and apparently the kind anon you're responding to also thinks that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:49:09 2010 No.1239739 I'm not gonna waste my time explaining them to you idiots. Figure it out yourselves.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:51:09 2010 No.1239747 File: 18 KB, 235x247, 1275059357337.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1239739 Can't even provide a link to the webpage you got those off of?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:52:09 2010 No.1239750 >>1239747 wikipedia.org

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:54:09 2010 No.1239762 File: 58 KB, 533x401, 1275013076483.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1239750

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:56:09 2010 No.1239769 >>1239747 Sure I can.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 21 23:58:09 2010 No.1239780 >>1239616 You have just changed the sign of Lenz law, induced emfs would not work to increase the change in the magnetic flux. Things will blow up very quickly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:02:09 2010 No.1239795 >>1239612 >implying this changes anything, or that distance can be negative.

CubeDude !LoLMoDTrip Tue Jun 22 00:04:09 2010 No.1239802

E^2=(p^2.c^4)+(m^2.c^4)
->
E^2=(p^2.c^4)-(m^2.c^4)

Among many other changes my favorite thing that would happen is that to calculate the speed of light from this you need to divide by 0.

Speed of light is now undefinable.

Also gayfags putting up special relativiy need to go fuck themselves. General relativity ftw.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:04:09 2010 No.1239804 e=m(-c)^2

Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:04:09 2010 No.1239806
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>>1239780
That is correct; but light wouldn't work either like I said because EM fields would stop satisfying the wave equation. (unless you made the adjustment shown in my pic)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:06:09 2010 No.1239817 File: 416 KB, 213x201, angry dome.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1239804 >>1239612 For the love of fuck, don't put the minus inside brackets that are about to be squared!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:07:09 2010 No.1239823 >>1239817 I think thats the joke, guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:08:09 2010 No.1239829 >>1239612 but r^2 is the same as (-r)^2

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:09:09 2010 No.1239832 >>1239823 I was aware of that possibility. It's the very prospect of being the butt of a joke that has me so infuriated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:11:09 2010 No.1239843 >>1239832 SELF ESTEEM TOO FRAGILE TO ENJOY A GOOD LAFFO?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:12:09 2010 No.1239849 >>1239832 ITT double negatives.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:13:09 2010 No.1239851 >>1239832 pic was related on >>1239612

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:13:09 2010 No.1239855 >>1239843 I came here for /sci/ence, not titilation

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:15:09 2010 No.1239865 File: 21 KB, 350x350, electron.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'd make the charge of the electron called "positive" and the charge of the proton "negative". This would make EE math easier.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:16:09 2010 No.1239871 >>1239855 Then you are those kind of retards who think that being serious is the only way to go and become frustrated for the rest of your life because you can't even enjoy a single laugh

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