A-Bendalloy/Cadmium F-Brass Twinborn Theory

[Longshot97]

I'd been toying with new Twinborn ideas in my head, and think I have something moderately exciting.

Picture this: a Slider (or Pulser) enters a room with a hefty supply of their according metal. They activate a time bubble, then sit down and begin tapping brass. They would do this either for a significant amount of time or at a very large tapping rate, until the Twinborn has reached a significant body temperature (for the sake of this conversation, 500° Fahrenheit, or 260° Celsius). The Twinborn in question will then drop the time bubble.

The idea is that the heat generated from the brassmind will transfer from the body of the Twinborn will transfer to the surrounding air. The amount of surrounding air, however, should be limited by the time bubble, and thus the heat should be trapped within the bubble's confines. Dropping the bubble, then, should remove the barrier, and allow the heat to rush into the room. If enough heat is trapped by the Twinborn, the process could be more than mildly violent.

I have a few questions on this:

1. Is this theory watertight? Does it actually make sense?
2. If so, would this function with either External Temporal metal, or only one of the two? Which one?
3. How effective would this theoretical attack be?

My current thought is that only a Bendalloy bubble would work for this. The way I see it, the bubble wouldn't really stop heat from leaking through, but the rate of transfer should be affected by the temporal manipulation. If the time outside the speed bubble is slowed down significantly, whatever heat escapes the bubble should be trapped right outside of it. We know that when Wayne throws up a speed bubble, everything outside practically freezes, depending on how much he flares the metal. The heat should then collect outside the bubble, also serving to prevent excess heat escaping. After all, the Laws of Thermodynamics determine that heat seeks to make cold matter warm (I have overly simplified it, but that's basically it), so that any heat stopped in time outside the bubble would act as a buffer to the heat inside the bubble.

Regardless, any thoughts?

[Trusk'our]

37 minutes ago, Longshot97 said:

I have a few questions on this:

1. Is this theory watertight? Does it actually make sense?

I think that it would work to heat up a small area inside the bubble and keep it relatively separated from the temperature outside the bubble, but I don't know that it would be particularly dangerous as a form of attack, at least not more than what F-brass on its own could do.

39 minutes ago, Longshot97 said:

1. If so, would this function with either External Temporal metal, or only one of the two? Which one?

Bendalloy would be your best bet I'd think, as it gives you more time to fill up an area. A cadmium bubble would probably make it harder to achieve than without any bubble at all, as the lower temperature outside the bubble would have more time to diffuse the extra heat inside the bubble.

41 minutes ago, Longshot97 said:

1. How effective would this theoretical attack be?

I'm no physicist or ballistics expert, but I think you'd need a more extreme form of energy than heating up a small pocket of air (even heating it up a lot- though your clothes would catch fire before too long) to make an explosion to harm your enemies.

If you're not trying to make a cyclone through the heated Speedbubble you'd probably be fine just tapping heat normally to try and burn someone you're touching.

It's an interesting idea though, and a use for the powers I hadn't considered before. Perhaps this Twinborn could make pockets of warmed air for allies to keep toasty in while in frigid environments though.

[alder24]

1 hour ago, Longshot97 said:

I'd been toying with new Twinborn ideas in my head, and think I have something moderately exciting.

Picture this: a Slider (or Pulser) enters a room with a hefty supply of their according metal. They activate a time bubble, then sit down and begin tapping brass. They would do this either for a significant amount of time or at a very large tapping rate, until the Twinborn has reached a significant body temperature (for the sake of this conversation, 500° Fahrenheit, or 260° Celsius). The Twinborn in question will then drop the time bubble.

The idea is that the heat generated from the brassmind will transfer from the body of the Twinborn will transfer to the surrounding air. The amount of surrounding air, however, should be limited by the time bubble, and thus the heat should be trapped within the bubble's confines. Dropping the bubble, then, should remove the barrier, and allow the heat to rush into the room. If enough heat is trapped by the Twinborn, the process could be more than mildly violent.

I have a few questions on this:

1. Is this theory watertight? Does it actually make sense?
2. If so, would this function with either External Temporal metal, or only one of the two? Which one?
3. How effective would this theoretical attack be?

My current thought is that only a Bendalloy bubble would work for this. The way I see it, the bubble wouldn't really stop heat from leaking through, but the rate of transfer should be affected by the temporal manipulation. If the time outside the speed bubble is slowed down significantly, whatever heat escapes the bubble should be trapped right outside of it. We know that when Wayne throws up a speed bubble, everything outside practically freezes, depending on how much he flares the metal. The heat should then collect outside the bubble, also serving to prevent excess heat escaping. After all, the Laws of Thermodynamics determine that heat seeks to make cold matter warm (I have overly simplified it, but that's basically it), so that any heat stopped in time outside the bubble would act as a buffer to the heat inside the bubble.

Regardless, any thoughts?

The air moves in and out of the bubble just like anything else is moving. 

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Kurkistan

What's it like inside a time bubble on a windy day?

Brandon Sanderson

So, I've had to play around a little bit with the air. Air moves in and out, you would still feel it windy, but as I have it you will not feel it from the direction the wind is coming, it will be deflected a little bit. So you might be a little bit in a wind tunnel or something, probably a swirl.

Skyward Chicago signing (Nov. 16, 2018)

With the bendalloy bubble this should work to some degree, but you would probably need to spend a lot of time to heat up the air in the bubble to that temperature. And your clothes might self-ignite. That's not really combat effective, but for emergency situations, like you need to save your companions from freezing, this might be quite handy.

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maybe if you had two twinborn a A-bendalloy + F-brass and a brass compounder for example: Bendalloy dude makes bubble compounder burns maybe flares brass metalminds, bendalloy dude stores heat to survive when bubble drops small explosion maybe add a A-nicrosil + F-brass for grater efect just have compounder swallow more brass and burn again

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