Depending on the rules, exactly does this magic conserve mass? Uranium would get bigger, cotton candy would shrink to a flake? All of the air in the world weighs 5.5 quadrillion tons. A ton of gold is 16.5 cubic inches, or 270 cm³ - so a block about the length of your foot plus a bit per side 5.5 quadrillion of those - a 1,487 cubic km block.
I’d choose to shape it into a giant pyramid, which would minimize how much it sinks into the crust, and look cool AF for the 130-odd seconds it takes everyone to asphyxiate because we’re staring at a giant gold pyramid made from the matter that used to be the atmosphere.
You made me check the average density of earth and, yeah, good is 4x denser than that. I’m not sure about the black hole thing, though. Would it be enough mass to collapse or would it just sit there?
So does air, or the thing you’re sitting on.
I imagine depending on the rules, this would turn the whole world into a gigantic gold ball, which would then collapse into a black hole or something.
Depending on the rules, exactly does this magic conserve mass? Uranium would get bigger, cotton candy would shrink to a flake? All of the air in the world weighs 5.5 quadrillion tons. A ton of gold is 16.5 cubic inches, or 270 cm³ - so a block about the length of your foot plus a bit per side 5.5 quadrillion of those - a 1,487 cubic km block.
I’d choose to shape it into a giant pyramid, which would minimize how much it sinks into the crust, and look cool AF for the 130-odd seconds it takes everyone to asphyxiate because we’re staring at a giant gold pyramid made from the matter that used to be the atmosphere.
Ice-IX. From the book, not the real stuff discovered after the book.
You made me check the average density of earth and, yeah, good is 4x denser than that. I’m not sure about the black hole thing, though. Would it be enough mass to collapse or would it just sit there?