If you had the ability to create an infinite amount of one thing...
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Infinite amounts of lemon cheesecake. But I wonder if I'll eventually grow sick of it. You can have too much of a good thing after all. Hmmmm.
Platinum. Yes, it would depreciate, but not very fast. I could sell it to jewelers and the like to pay off all my student loans, maybe get a vehicle, a house, and then some safety net money. Since it's worth $1375 or so per ounce right now ($48 per gram), I wouldn't need very much.
Darn, I was hoping for something more witty than that. I guess it will have to do.Sentox6 said:
Yeah, but this isn't Supreme Commander where you can just build an Energy to Mass Converter. When you create matter using energy, you tend to make antimatter at the same time, which can be pretty problematic. They tend to have opposite charge, and thus they are attracted to each other and recombine into energy again.tehbeard said:
Easier to convert matter into energy through nuclear fission than create an amount of matter of any significant worth or use using energy. Of course, nobody wants to wish for an infinite quantity of refined uranium. One might call such a wish a Very Bad Idea.
Not that wishing for infinite energy is a good idea either. What if all this energy was given to you instantly in the form of kinetic energy in your molecules? You'd be instantly vaporized.
Of course, if you could specifically control how much energy was being released at any point in time, you could stay warm under any conditions without insulation. However the release of energy would have to be low enough to keep you alive, which would prevent you from using it effectively as an energy source for others.
However, if you had absolute control over this energy in your body, you could excite your outermost cells to a blindingly hot temperature while maintaining a normal body temperature underneath, essentially turning you into a human torch. Alternatively you could selectively excite the molecules in a fashion which would give you super speed ala the Flash.
Sometimes making it specific isn't a let-down after all, since your infinite energy generation, when localized and specifically controlled can turn you into a superhero. Unless of course the laws of physics warp our reality to accomodate you, and your spontaneous yet infinite energy generation develops into a singularity into which all life is sucked.
Although perhaps I am taking such a hypothetical situation too seriously.
The world is now eternally wistful, and nobody accomplishes anything anymore. Eventually their inaction will result in their death. But there must still be infinite wishes, leaving you alone, immortal, but filled with wishes of longing for a different world, where you did not doom everyone to an abrupt end through your greed.ShakerSilver said:
WISH GRANTED
Man, if you ever use a Wish spell in my DnD campaign, you'd better make the wording airtight. Sure I'll let you Wish for more wishes, but they certainly won't come true!
Infinite Cataclysm Expansion! ...Wait, that's already possible with pirating technology....
Uhm...
Infinite hippos. I'd use my ability to summon forth 100.000 hippos whenever the mood would strike me in some huge city.
Would really surprise anyone living there, wouldn't it?
Than I'd let the zoo or some other crappy organization take care of it. It's not my problem... *Turns his back and closes his eyes, also crosses his arms*
Uhm...
Infinite hippos. I'd use my ability to summon forth 100.000 hippos whenever the mood would strike me in some huge city.
Would really surprise anyone living there, wouldn't it?
Than I'd let the zoo or some other crappy organization take care of it. It's not my problem... *Turns his back and closes his eyes, also crosses his arms*
Planets able to support complex life, basically my own supply of Earths, humanity could expand, and not need to muck with other species since we have huge bases to found our future.
Hit points. yeah i wanna live forever! 
otherwise moneys. duh i can buy happiness with that much dough!
otherwise moneys. duh i can buy happiness with that much dough!
Depends how we're talking, do you mean you just ooze out whatever it is you create? or the ability at will? Do you select a number, say for example "i want 70cl or hydrogen *here*" and place it where i want or what?
If i just ooze them out over time so as to speak like i just randomly open my hand or put it in my pocket and i pull something out it'd be bundles of £20 notes or the currency of my choice. Solve alot of problems with money.
If i could think of an amount and where i wanted it then probably electricity, find out how much a country uses in a day get in written form and just say "that much, national grid over 24hours, thnx"
If i just ooze them out over time so as to speak like i just randomly open my hand or put it in my pocket and i pull something out it'd be bundles of £20 notes or the currency of my choice. Solve alot of problems with money.
If i could think of an amount and where i wanted it then probably electricity, find out how much a country uses in a day get in written form and just say "that much, national grid over 24hours, thnx"
Antimatter. I could use it to create infinite free energy by funneling it into carefully controlled envoronments and if any goverment thought they were clever and tried to capture me I could just go about blowing things up by creating tiny amounts of it next to them.
Hmm, infinite amount of one thing ay? Youth then, 'cause it'd mean I could turn back my own biological clock and live on forevar... 'least 'till I caught some real bad disease/ran over/shot, etc... failing that,
Thisatombeast707 said:
A lot of energy is needed to create mass, we'd suck our planet dry making biscuits.Jack_Uzi said:
Infinite amounts of anything isn't good. The more you make something the less it's worth. If there existed one digital watch on the planet how much would you get for it? And if there existed five digital watches per person on the planet, how much would you get if you sold yours?
Create money, get inflation, create gold, gold gets worthless, infinite amounts of one foodstuff, die of malnourishment...
So yeah, I pick infinite cake.