gravity and windrunners

[Wits instant noodles he/him]

So windrunner's lashing changes the effects of gravity right? So if a windrunner were to go to another planet with much less gravity would they be slower? or do windrunners work off of their home planets gravity?

[Werewolff Studios he/him]

23 hours ago, Wits instant noodles said:

So windrunner's lashing changes the effects of gravity right? So if a windrunner were to go to another planet with much less gravity would they be slower? or do windrunners work off of their home planets gravity?

Difficult to say as we don't know how much Connection would play a factor, but I reckon it'd be more the former. A lashing changes the direction that gravity pulls you. The only way to change the rate of acceleration is by increasing the Lashings. So yeah, I feel you might be a bit slower, but likely not to a massive extent, and you could always up the speed by creating more Lashings. 

[Sky Breaker]

I’m pretty sure that lashings go off of the object/person’s weight so I think it would be new planet gravity

[Frustration]

Rosharan gravity

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AonarFaileas

That's just an issue of phrasing. As Lashings work by creating localized gravitational forces (don't think, it's magic ) it would have created a localized gravitational force of approximately 0.63Gs upwards relative to Szeth's current position on Roshar, which after competition from Roshar's 0.7Gs of gravity, would have left Szeth feeling only 0.07Gs, or, one tenth of the regular gravitational force.  

Peter Ahlstrom

No. Lashing is not a vector addition to the planet's gravity. When you use a Lashing, you dismiss the planet's gravity's influence on you entirely.

AonarFaileas

So it would have been a 9/20ths (45%) Lashing, then?  (0.7-0.7*0.45*2=0.07)

Or do Lashings completely cancel out gravity and then reapply the gravitational force at a different strength?

Peter Ahlstrom

The general rule when you do a Basic Lashing is that it replaces all other Basic Lashings (including the planet's gravity) on you or the object. The default Basic Lashing strength is 1 Roshar gravity.

As you get more practiced you can use partial lashings or multiple Lashings, or (Kaladin does this accidentally one time) NOT dismiss the previous Lashings entirely, so that different Lashings are pulling in different directions. But usually when someone does a Lashing, you should assume that Lashing's effect is the only "gravity" that currently exists for that person or thing.

Miscellaneous 2014 (Oct. 10, 2014)

 

[LilyBlossom9876]

I think it would slow them down slightly, but there are other factors like atmostphere that will actually make more of a difference. It would happen but it would be slight. And you could just layer the lashings differently if you wanted to make more or less of a speed difference

[SPECTRE120]

How would lashings work in space? Because there is no resistance, could this be used to reach near-light speeds?

[alder24]

8 minutes ago, SPECTRE120 said:

How would lashings work in space? Because there is no resistance, could this be used to reach near-light speeds?

Yes, in the atmosphere there is terminal velocity, and that's because of the air drag. In space there is nothing that would stop acceleration, so just like man-made objects with propulsion in space, they would just keep accelerating until reaching near-light speeds. But it would take a long time. It would also take a long time to travel between planets or stellar systems. In cosmic scale the speed of light is painfully slow, so it wouldn't be a good way of traveling between planets.

[alder24]

39 minutes ago, IlstrawberrySeed said:

Also, you will iradiate yourself in. space if you don't protect yourself.

Not a factor, you have Stormlight, it will heal you and that wouldn't require big amounts of it.

[IlstrawberrySeed]

3 minutes ago, alder24 said:

Not a factor, you have Stormlight, it will heal you and that wouldn't require big amounts of it.

Why wouldn't it require large amounts of stormlight?

[alder24]

1 minute ago, IlstrawberrySeed said:

Why wouldn't it require large amounts of stormlight?

Radiation poses danger because of long term effects - it breaks the DNA chain, which prevents cells from copying and healing themselves. Your body slowly loses cells that it can't replace anymore. Radiation also breaks the bonds between molecules, atoms and electrons. Radiation doesn't kill instantly. Death is usually caused by infection, as Radiation kills immune cells. All Stormlight needs to do is to heal those bonds between atoms. That's it. This is microscopic damage. And if it's healed immediately after being damaged, there are no long term effects to heal.

[therunner he/him]

6 hours ago, alder24 said:

Yes, in the atmosphere there is terminal velocity, and that's because of the air drag. In space there is nothing that would stop acceleration, so just like man-made objects with propulsion in space, they would just keep accelerating until reaching near-light speeds. But it would take a long time. It would also take a long time to travel between planets or stellar systems. In cosmic scale the speed of light is painfully slow, so it wouldn't be a good way of traveling between planets.

For getting around a solar system it would actually be quite enough. At 1G you could get to moon in ~3.5 hours, and to other planets in a couple of days, maybe a week. It would be faster than anything we can built currently (or in near future). See this handy post https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/840/how-fast-will-1g-get-you-there
Interstellar distance are of course an issue, speed of light is pretty hard limit.

[IlstrawberrySeed]

33 minutes ago, SPECTRE120 said:

How would lashings work in space? Because there is no resistance, could this be used to reach near-light speeds?

21 minutes ago, alder24 said:

Yes, in the atmosphere there is terminal velocity, and that's because of the air drag. In space there is nothing that would stop acceleration, so just like man-made objects with propulsion in space, they would just keep accelerating until reaching near-light speeds. But it would take a long time. It would also take a long time to travel between planets or stellar systems. In cosmic scale the speed of light is painfully slow, so it wouldn't be a good way of traveling between planets.

Also, you will iradiate yourself in. space if you don't protect yourself.