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Summary: If I could spontaneously shift an element's atomic number down by one, what kind of reactions could I cause? What would happen if a handful of O2 just transformed into N2? <mentor: thread moved to SF & f forum > Hello, I'm working on developing a chemistry-grounded Dungeons and...

Hello PeroK, thank you so much for your response. I had heard how muons are able to penetrate Earth's atmosphere by means of length contraction given their great velocity, and was hoping a similar analogy could be used to conceptualize the existence of length contraction near black holes. Whelp...

For instance, if a stream of muons were released from a box near a massive object and traveled on a straight path slowly (at a non-relativistic velocity) away from that object, a faraway observer would notice that the particles would take longer to decay than a muon typically would in empty...