What could this superpower really do?

The ability to alter the value of pi (3.14159...) within a short radius around yourself.

I think I remember hearing something involving becoming invisible.

The thing is, considering the number of things in physics that involve the value of pi, this could be a power that has an incredible number of uses. Or it could be something that causes the superperson to be deleted from existance the first time they use the power.

Considering the number of things that could go wrong when using this power, the user would have to be some kind of physics expert.


Normally I'd go to /sci/ with this question, but I don't think that they'd be very interested in this.

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Well, one thing that you'd be able to do is alter gravity.

The Theory of universal Gravitation is:

Fg = G [(Mxm)/(r^2) ]    Where:

Fg is Force of Gravity,
G  is the gravitational constant (6.67 x 10^{-11}),
M  is the mass of the larger object,
m  is the mass of the smaller object, and
r  is the distance between the centers of the two objects.


The value of Pi is a ratio of a circle's circumfrence [C] to it's diameter [d] (which is two times the length of the radius [r]). We can use the value [2xr] to replace [C] in the equation.

This means that Pi = C/d = C/[2xr].


We can now isolate [r] like this:

Pi = C/[2xr]  →  Pix2xr = C  →  r = C/[2xPi]


This leaves us with a new equation we can use to replace [r] in the theory of universal gravitation. Lets use this information to turn this:

Fg = G [(Mxm)/(r^2)]

into this:

Fg = G [(Mxm)/([ C/[2xPi] ]^2)]



Essentially, because Pi is in the denominator of this equation, it can affect what the final answer is. If Pi is set to a really big number, then the division will result in a small number (Ex. 1/1000 = 0.001). If Pi is set to a small number, then the result will be bigger (Ex. 1/0.001 = 1000).



Does that make sense to you? Hopefully it wasn't too long. This is only High-School level physics so it shouldn't be too difficult. Anything that can be made to theoretically represent some aspect of Pi (either in radius, or circles, or a few other things I'm forgetting) can be changed if you change the value of Pi. Unless they cancel each other out, but that's a whole other can of worms that I won't go into here.


The main point is that I can imagine one or two ways to use this "superpower", but I know that there are lots of other uses. Since Pi is in so many aspects of physics, screwing with it would fuck things up alot, so I think I'd have to modify this power by saying that the Person can only use it in ways that they've already figured out, to prevent them from killing reality around them. So they can screw with gravity, but not become invisible until they figure out the math for that.