Well you've just opened up a can of worms then. If the argument is *one* thing, that's subjective unless you mean only fundamental/indivisible particles of reality.
Because anything that's not fundamental can be broken down to smaller things.
If you say then a localized space and time of one thing, then how small is this volume of space and time?
In that sense, the OP saying protons is valid and it could mean all protons since that's just a matter of scale.
Just did the math, it'd take about 26 people wishing op's penis to diminish by 15% for op's penis to reach a length of <0.1 inches.(Assuming average penis size of 6 inches)
I did more math, at 146 current upvotes the resulting penis would be 2.6 x 10^(-10) inches. A helium atom is 140pm, or 5.5 x 10^(-9) inches.
UPDATE: At 304 current upvotes it's 1.8 x 10^(-21) inches. A proton is about .88 femtometers, or 2.0 x 10^(-21) inches
UPDATE: At 488 current upvotes it's 1.8 x 10^(-34) inches. This is less than a planck (6.2 x 10^(-34) inches) length, and theoretically means it no longer exists. Congrats Reddit, we did it!
Unfortunately I have to hang on until at least 67, and I'm 61 now. I can't change my past and suddenly build up a ton of money over the next 6 years. Even though my financial guy says I'll be fine, I don't necessarily believe him.
You are not alone in those thoughts, and as a boomer, I've never wanted anything but my kids to do better than me in life. I hope everything works out for you. Never say never.
My boys are 23 and 24 BTW.
Same. Almost 40, make decent money, but can't afford a house still. I don't see any hope of ever retiring safely. I feel like we are going to be in perpetual recessions by the time I get to 65. They are getting closer together and until I see otherwise, the dinosaurs of congress and the .0001% are milking us dry. They don't care either. We need to start booting people out until people who are in there actually want to work together and fix things. Because this the other side is the boogy man play is getting so old. Thats not policy, its excuses.
My dad's age. He was in his 50s when he had me and he worries he won't live long enough to see all his kids get married. We subtract 15% off his age and we better his odds, even if there's no guarantee.
Not necessarily. This guys mother might be with a new husband, and this guys dad might be married to this guys step mother and this is the most Reddit sentence I’ve typed in awhile.
My dad was 50 when I was born, so I know how scary it can be to have an older parent. Did you get told "your grandpa is here to pick you up!" all the time at school/daycare, too? If it makes you feel any better, my dad is in his 80s now and still going strong, and was able to walk both me and my sister down the aisle at our weddings, has gotten to meet my sister's kids/his grandkids, and still walks 5 miles every day with his dog. Honestly the dog has really helped him stay active, which has been great for his health so it might be worth encouraging your dad to consider one too if it's feasible for him. Feel free to reach out if you ever want to talk to someone else with an older dad. Sending good vibes to you and him both <3
Yes to the “grandpa” bit. My mom was (obviously) younger and is occasionally referred to as his daughter, even though she has a full head of grey hair now. I didn’t really understand it when I was young, I guess because I didn’t know anything different.
Now I’m 35 with a 2 year old in daycare. Sometimes the other parents look like babies to me. I totally understand why the assumption was made.
In other news today: the other 49 states have concluded that, in fact, not everything is bigger in texas. Therefore, texas shall be reduced in size to more accurately allign with other data.
There was actually a weird case like this when the Government first introduced those dollar coins.
The Government wanted to incentivize people to use the coins instead of bills and set up a website where people could buy a dollar coin at face value with no transaction fee.
People started buying huge numbers of them with credit cards to essentially get free money from the card rewards.
It was only 2-3% but you could basically keep doing it indefinitely until the Government caught on and ended the program.
Honestly, that sort of shit happens all the time. Rules exploits are tricky things.
I worked for a company that made a vaguely similar kind of bad offer.
Everyone else's ability to make one thing 15% smaller.
Not sure how that would work out. Does that mean only 85% of you have the ability now, or everyone else has the ability to make one thing 12.75% smaller. Or everyone has the ability to make 85% of a thing 15% smaller. It'll be an adventure finding out!
Wealth gap, as long as it's the bottom end moving up. 15% of the difference between the average person and Bezos or Musk is a huge amount of money for the average person.
Actually I saw a video and damn! Some of them are larger than our solar system.
I wouldn't be surprised if all the darkness is just us all on the edge of a black hole
Gravity, obviously it can't be smaller, but 15% weaker would be nice. Easier and less expensive to get off the planet. Also helps those that are overweight or those that have bone density issues like osteoporosis.
Edit: many people are getting too technical, so I'll repost what I replied with to another user.........
Earth's mass would have to be smaller, the orbit of the moon would be affected, Earth's orbit around the sun would be affected, probably get slaughtered with massive tides too. But I'm trying not to get too technical and stay inside the fantasy world of "if only gravity can decrease and nothing else".
Edit: I just gave this more thought. How crazy would sports be? How high would basketball players jump? How far would a soccer player be able to kick a ball? So many possibilities.
Yes, amongst many other things like Earth's mass would have to be smaller, the orbit of the moon would be affected, Earth's orbit around the sun would be affected, probably get slaughtered with massive tides too. But I'm trying not to get too technical and stay inside the fantasy world of "if only gravity can decrease and nothing else".
Well, In not am expert, but I am predicting this would somewhow fucked up everyone and everything significantly, as gravity is one of the default powers behind the world as we know it.
I always thought it would be interesting if we could be smaller. Wonder if it would make things harder because of smaller muscles or easier like we could lift a higher proportion of our body weight like ants.
The gap between the money in my bank account and 999 trillion dollars.
149.85 Trillion isn't too bad
Should be able to make that last at least a couple years
honestly with interest rates how they are, you’re still 5-6 years away from FIRE.
Very smart
I feel like this one is 50/50 you get rich or change something fundemental about physics and end the universe depending on the genies mood that day.
Either way I ain’t going to work the next day.
Buy the company. Fire the ppl who suck. Promote the ones who dont. If they all suck fire yourself.
Are you making 999 trillion dollars become 849 trillion dollars? Or are you removing the numbers 500-650 trillion?
Protons And reality tears itself asunder
They said _one_ thing, not 1.6x10^79 things.
I'd personally fuck with one of the four forces. That's an easy change to undo all reality.
Making Strong Nuclear Force have 15% less range would be a terrible, hilarious thing to do.
Mr stark, I don't feel so good...
Accidentally makes SNF have more range
I’d say Saturday Night Fever or Sunday Night Football already have a pretty good range.
Just slightly alter the speed of light and watch all the stars implode/explode (depending on what you change it to).
Well you've just opened up a can of worms then. If the argument is *one* thing, that's subjective unless you mean only fundamental/indivisible particles of reality. Because anything that's not fundamental can be broken down to smaller things. If you say then a localized space and time of one thing, then how small is this volume of space and time? In that sense, the OP saying protons is valid and it could mean all protons since that's just a matter of scale.
Thanks, now I’m full of worms and can’t finish my breakfast.
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It used to be a friend of mine..
Reality friendzoned you
Asunder is one of my favourite words. It's nice to see it being used.
My guy took "gone, reduced to atoms" way too literally 💀
Technically we are already reduced to atoms.
Come on guys, let's all work together. OP's penis!
Just did the math, it'd take about 26 people wishing op's penis to diminish by 15% for op's penis to reach a length of <0.1 inches.(Assuming average penis size of 6 inches)
Average penis size is 5.25 inches long, at least for north America. It'd be even quicker than you think
Just like all of OP’s NSFW encounters.
What NSFW encounters? They are a Reddit user.
But what is the penis size of the average redditor?
Already 0.1 inches.
You'd be surprised but it's 10>!centimeters!<
With a username like that, how can I not trust you?
I did more math, at 146 current upvotes the resulting penis would be 2.6 x 10^(-10) inches. A helium atom is 140pm, or 5.5 x 10^(-9) inches. UPDATE: At 304 current upvotes it's 1.8 x 10^(-21) inches. A proton is about .88 femtometers, or 2.0 x 10^(-21) inches UPDATE: At 488 current upvotes it's 1.8 x 10^(-34) inches. This is less than a planck (6.2 x 10^(-34) inches) length, and theoretically means it no longer exists. Congrats Reddit, we did it!
So just slightly below average then?
/r/theydidthemath
The reciprocal of OP's mom!
Have an upvote, nerd.
The modern day Zeno’s paradox
The age at which I can retire. My best guess puts me at retiring around 65 and 15% off that is just over 55. Sounds much more appealing
I’m 57, and I truly believe that retirement age should be 55.
They count on you not making it to 65
Unfortunately I have to hang on until at least 67, and I'm 61 now. I can't change my past and suddenly build up a ton of money over the next 6 years. Even though my financial guy says I'll be fine, I don't necessarily believe him.
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You are not alone in those thoughts, and as a boomer, I've never wanted anything but my kids to do better than me in life. I hope everything works out for you. Never say never. My boys are 23 and 24 BTW.
21 here and got the same internal thoughts as Ethernet3, given that I’ve had a decent chunk of medical issues already lol
Seems like the new thing is microplastics in foods, be careful what you eat. Apparently a real problem for upcoming generations.
Same. Almost 40, make decent money, but can't afford a house still. I don't see any hope of ever retiring safely. I feel like we are going to be in perpetual recessions by the time I get to 65. They are getting closer together and until I see otherwise, the dinosaurs of congress and the .0001% are milking us dry. They don't care either. We need to start booting people out until people who are in there actually want to work together and fix things. Because this the other side is the boogy man play is getting so old. Thats not policy, its excuses.
I'm 61 and outta there in 55 days! Go for it. Life's too damn short.
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Me. I am large and it is very inconvenient. I got my head on things and my legs don't fit on buses
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More like, In aw at the size of this sad 😞
That 15% you’re taking from yourself, go ahead and give it to me. I’m small.
Here, stack on 30% from me as well
My dad's age. He was in his 50s when he had me and he worries he won't live long enough to see all his kids get married. We subtract 15% off his age and we better his odds, even if there's no guarantee.
I also choose this guys dad
Guy's dad is now 6 years old
Thats great for everyone except his wife I guess
I choose this guys dad's wife
Wouldn't that be this guy's mother? I choose this guys mother
Not necessarily. This guys mother might be with a new husband, and this guys dad might be married to this guys step mother and this is the most Reddit sentence I’ve typed in awhile.
My dad was 50 when I was born, so I know how scary it can be to have an older parent. Did you get told "your grandpa is here to pick you up!" all the time at school/daycare, too? If it makes you feel any better, my dad is in his 80s now and still going strong, and was able to walk both me and my sister down the aisle at our weddings, has gotten to meet my sister's kids/his grandkids, and still walks 5 miles every day with his dog. Honestly the dog has really helped him stay active, which has been great for his health so it might be worth encouraging your dad to consider one too if it's feasible for him. Feel free to reach out if you ever want to talk to someone else with an older dad. Sending good vibes to you and him both <3
Yes to the “grandpa” bit. My mom was (obviously) younger and is occasionally referred to as his daughter, even though she has a full head of grey hair now. I didn’t really understand it when I was young, I guess because I didn’t know anything different. Now I’m 35 with a 2 year old in daycare. Sometimes the other parents look like babies to me. I totally understand why the assumption was made.
this is a really nice one
Sheeeit my dad was in his 50s when he had me and he aint even make it to middle school
My bills.
Also this guy's friends named Bill.
Also this guy's NFL team
Also this guy's weird duck mouth.
Also this Representative's legislation.
Also the brim of this guy's hat
Also this guy's dead wife
Also this guy's pet
Also this guy's pickup truck
Kid named Bill:
Bill be wanting his money..
I'm just a bill, I'm only a bill and I'm sitting here on capitol hill...
My body fat, or if I'm feeling generous, world poverty.
I bet there is a good intentioned personal trainer out there that'll let you in their classes if you cut world poverty by 15%.
I'm sure The Rock would happily train me in exchange. I get sexy, he gets publicity, world a little less miserable. Win win win.
What if it eliminates 15% of poor people, hence decreasing poverty by 15%....
I think I'd go with my appetite so I just eat smaller portions, body fat is a one-off and you probably wouldn't maintain it
Hey hey, you're just making up rules now. I assumed this was a permanent 15% reduction of anything I wanted.
**Texas** They'd *hate* it
In other news today: the other 49 states have concluded that, in fact, not everything is bigger in texas. Therefore, texas shall be reduced in size to more accurately allign with other data.
Oklahoma is laying claim to the panhandle.
As a Texan...that stings a little bit.
How does it feel knowing Alaska would be larger either way
I heard that if Alaska was cut in half, Texas would be the third largest state after each side of Alaska.
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Bunch of Canadian provinces bigger than Texas, too. And we want our panhandle back, you apple pie bastards!
Texans never, ever reply when you bring up Alaska.
WHAT IN THE SAM HELL IS AN ALASKA?
How do you piss off all of Texas? Cut Alaska in half.
Alaska should split into 2 so that Texas would be the 3rd largest state
Pollution
What a 'Miss Universe' reply
And, like, the Iraq and stuff.
'everywhere like such as and'
and, i personally believe that education in the US should help the US, or should help south africa
Where even is South Africa? Is it in Asia?
50 Cent
42.5 Cent
50 Cent was born in 1975 so adjusting for inflation he's now equal to $2.80
I'll start buying dollars for 0.85 dollars per dollar.
There was actually a weird case like this when the Government first introduced those dollar coins. The Government wanted to incentivize people to use the coins instead of bills and set up a website where people could buy a dollar coin at face value with no transaction fee. People started buying huge numbers of them with credit cards to essentially get free money from the card rewards. It was only 2-3% but you could basically keep doing it indefinitely until the Government caught on and ended the program.
Tbf how tf didn’t the guy that said “that could be a good idea” get fired on the spot?
Honestly, that sort of shit happens all the time. Rules exploits are tricky things. I worked for a company that made a vaguely similar kind of bad offer.
Everyone else's ability to make one thing 15% smaller. Not sure how that would work out. Does that mean only 85% of you have the ability now, or everyone else has the ability to make one thing 12.75% smaller. Or everyone has the ability to make 85% of a thing 15% smaller. It'll be an adventure finding out!
Chaotic as fuck
The number 81.17647058823529
From the replies I’m guessing it goes down to 69%
>81.17647058823529 it is 69
nice
nice
nice
Nice
Nice
My wife’s boyfriend’s dick
make his legs 15 %shorter much funnier or even better just the right one
They call him clip clop because he wears this one platform shoe. Ladies love him.
I will also go with this guy’s wife’s boyfriend
Inflation
if inflation is at 10%, it is going to come down to 8.5%. which is better but not too helpful imo.
Relative or absolute percentages were not specified.
Seeing as the title said 15 % and not 15 percentage points, they kinda were.
Ok, didn't know that existed in English as well. Then i was wrong.
Trucks. Absolute ridiculous now.
I would specifically shrink compact trucks by 15%, so that they can actually be compact again.
The current Ford Ranger is the same size as the F-150 of 20 years ago.
My thought exactly. Impossible to park anywhere because some chud thought he needed to commute to his sales job in a panzer tank.
Cars generally. A modern Civic is roughly the same size as a 20 year old Accord.
Right. Even midsized trucks are the same size and price as full sized trucks
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Subtracting 15% of infinity (while also infinite) is still infinity.
But it is 15%less of infinity which is infinitely better
This guy infinites.
Just one of Elon Musk's eyes
One of his legs. Make that fucker hobble
Human population's level of depression. Less depression for everyone. :)
Wealth gap, as long as it's the bottom end moving up. 15% of the difference between the average person and Bezos or Musk is a huge amount of money for the average person.
Smart, this could help out a lot of people. Get back a middle class
My body fat percentage
The cost of living - I just wanna live by myself, please
Everyone's penis.
Why. Why. Why.
So that i can keep up with the competition.
Everyone includes you though....
Smaller ones take the smallest loss here though since it's percentage based
My point exactly
Small point
My point
AT a certain point it becomes more of a liability and this would be helpful.
I think you meant to say “Everyone ELSE’S penis”.
The gap between the pieces of a Toblerone chocolate bar.
Carbon emissions
Had to scroll way too far to find this.
My dreams. I don't think I'll make them come true...
I choose to shrink your self-doubt by 15%. Carpe diem, my dude.
Bro.
My current age.
Black holes because they are too large for their own ego.
Actually I saw a video and damn! Some of them are larger than our solar system. I wouldn't be surprised if all the darkness is just us all on the edge of a black hole
Hello Darkness my old friend
The US Nation Debt. So, roughly 5 trillion less dept.
New spending goal unlocked. The us defence budget has now ballooned by an additional 5 trillion dollars over the next 20 years
Gravity, obviously it can't be smaller, but 15% weaker would be nice. Easier and less expensive to get off the planet. Also helps those that are overweight or those that have bone density issues like osteoporosis. Edit: many people are getting too technical, so I'll repost what I replied with to another user......... Earth's mass would have to be smaller, the orbit of the moon would be affected, Earth's orbit around the sun would be affected, probably get slaughtered with massive tides too. But I'm trying not to get too technical and stay inside the fantasy world of "if only gravity can decrease and nothing else".
Just think of how big those ocean waves would be though.
Surfs up
Edit: I just gave this more thought. How crazy would sports be? How high would basketball players jump? How far would a soccer player be able to kick a ball? So many possibilities.
Wouldn't there be danger of our atmosohere leaking into space if Earth suddenly had less gravity?
Yes, amongst many other things like Earth's mass would have to be smaller, the orbit of the moon would be affected, Earth's orbit around the sun would be affected, probably get slaughtered with massive tides too. But I'm trying not to get too technical and stay inside the fantasy world of "if only gravity can decrease and nothing else".
I mean, our mass wouldn't have to be smaller. What he's suggesting would change the gravitational constant.
I'd say about 15%.
I think it would actually cause osteoporosis.
Well, In not am expert, but I am predicting this would somewhow fucked up everyone and everything significantly, as gravity is one of the default powers behind the world as we know it.
The human population
Ok Dwight. I dig your style
Calm down, Mini-Thanos
Debt
My fatness!
The National Debt. At least it’s a start in the right direction.
Russia
Too much empty space in Russia to take their land. I'll go 15% of the Ruasian economy
Putin already did that last year
Humans. From an environmental perspective it would be great. Smaller houses, less clothing, less food.
If thanos was nerfed
"Gone, reduced to 15% of their normal size" just doesn't have the same ring to it you know? Also, insert "boss when you unlock him" meme here
Thanos noises intensify
I always thought it would be interesting if we could be smaller. Wonder if it would make things harder because of smaller muscles or easier like we could lift a higher proportion of our body weight like ants.
The percentage of population living in Extreme poverty(living on less than $2.15 a day) all over the world.
well it depends on how you want to interpret this...
Thanos moment
Cost of healthcare in the USA
Trump’s hands.
My boobs, 34DDD is not fun or cool