Feruchemical Steel Questions

[Mistborn739 she/her]

Alright, so I like to think that I have some extensive knowledge of how Allomancy and Feruchemy work, but the thing I never understood was how Feruchemical Steel works. When tapping steel, you become much faster (physically). Does your mental speed have a proportional increase to make up for your increased speed? Or do you see everything pass you as a blur and risk running into walls due to the fact that you can't process information fast enough? Additionally, would tapping both steel and zinc essentially "slow down time" for everyone but you?

[The One Who Connects he/him]

There is this topic, and the first post has links to several related F-Steel debates.

Edit: Mental Speed is stored in Zinc, so it probably isn't affected by F-Steel. But so far, we really don't know for sure

Edited August 24, 2016 by The One Who Connects

[Mistborn739 she/her]

Thanks for the link, but since steel is categorized as "physical realm", would your mind expand to keep up with your physical speed? And if not, could you then use zinc to speed up your mind, making it seem as though you are moving normally, but everyone else is slowed down, much like a bendalloy bubble?

[The One Who Connects he/him]

You should read some of the threads linked in that link i showed you. I'm sure at least one of them has thought of something similar, and they understand the physics of the stuff better than I do

[Landis963 he/him]

The Threads have most of it, but here's the Cliffsnotes version:

F-Steel, in addition to granting physical superspeed, also grants enhanced reaction time.  I believe there is also some physics cheating that happens so that, say, friction doesn't burn you, your shoes, the floor, etc.  

F-Zinc, speeds your mental thought processes but only your mental thought processes; can't get twitch timing from F-Zinc, but can analyze every possible outcome of, say, a chess scenario in an instant.  Also aids in making mental leaps ("Turns you into Ken Jennings" I believe is the WoB).  

If they were onscreen, it would be a similar bullet-time effect, but F-Steel would be the character moving at normal speed during the effect, and F-Zinc would be the character inner-monologuing at normal speed during the effect.  

[The One Who Connects he/him]

@Landis963 Are we going back to The Flash and Sherlock Holmes again?

[Landis963 he/him]

2 minutes ago, The One Who Connects said:

@Landis963 Are we going back to The Flash and Sherlock Holmes again?

They seem to be the best exemplars of the powers in question, yes.  

[Magestar he/him]

Yeah, I litterally just put up a huge theory on this.  That's what The One Who Connects linked you to.  It's pretty comprehensive.  There are still a few problems, but it + what was said here should help answer your questions.  If you have more, you could always ask in that thread.