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Happy new semiprime after prime year!

After the change of the year i realized ,us everyone did, that $2018=2\times1009$ and of course $1009$ is a prime number. $2017$ is also a prime number. Furthermore $2019=3\times 673$ and $673$ is also a prime number. So here is the conjecture.

For every number $n\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists a prime number $p$ such that

$p+1=2\times p_1$,

$p+2=3\times p_2$,

$p+3=4\times p_3$,

$p+4=5\times p_4$,

. . .

$p+n=(n+1)\times p_n$

where $p_1,p_2,p_3,.....,p_n$ are some prime numbers.

One can notice that this is an optimal situation in the sense that every 2 numbers at least one should be divide by $2$ every 3 numbers at least one should be divided by $3$ and every n numbers at least one should be divided by $n$. Of course the conjecture is too hard in the sense that it implies the open conjecture that there are infinitely many primes such that $2p-1$ is also prime, or you can ask the same question for the oposite direction meaning:

For every number $n\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists a prime number $p$ such that

$p-1=2\times p_1$,

$p-2=3\times p_2$,

. . .

$p-n=(n+1)\times p_n$

where $p_1,p_2,p_3,.....,p_n$ are some prime numbers that implies that the Sophie Germain Primes are infinite, or both directions simultaneously,etc.

I dont know if this is a known question,i tried to find related ones but I didn't made it.

MORE ADVANCED NOTE:

Thinking to this direction one can make much more general conjectures that implies these ones. Par example:

For any number $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and for every prime $p'<n$ and every power $i$ there exists a $p$ such that

  1. every number $p+1,...,p+n$ is divided by $p'<n$ to some $i$ in any legal way meaning that none of this ways should force $p'|p$ or for some $n'$ $n'|p+j, n'|p+k$ and $n'$ does not divide $k-j$ or some $n''$ not to divide $n''$ consecutive numbers.

2)Every $p+1,...,p+n$ is divided of at most one more prime number.

Of course this would imply much more than the twin prime conjecture...

approaching the general philosophy that "With prime numbers (or natural numbers in general) everything that is possible to happen happens somewhere"

Happy New Year!