• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    If we had control over the weak force:

    • We can likely turn elements into other elements at will
    • We can manufacture safe decay sources for a new class of nuclear energy
    • We can probably create safe “decay batteries” tuned to their specific use cases. Batteries that last for tens of thousands the lifespan of current chemical ones.
    • Potentially engineer with neutrinos. Imagine communication via neutrinos, you could transmit straight through the earth.

    I mean, with control over matter like that, at the scale of electricity, Star Trek matter replicators would be a thing.