me2020 Posted October 6, 2017 Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) As we all know from Secret history and from SA books that some of the shard have the ability to see the possible the future. Now considering magic systems in cosmere , we can say that all of them fit into category of science from other universe. So , i was wondering what is the nature of this ability. According to physics , if every present entity and rules off physics are known then all the future and past events can be predicted. No process in this universe can destroy information and all information at any given time can very accurately predict all past and future events. So , are the power of shards just a very advanced computation capacity that lets them know all past and future , or is it something more complicated ? Edited October 6, 2017 by me2020 1
Weltall Posted October 6, 2017 Posted October 6, 2017 What's going on with future-sight is that you're peeking into the Spiritual Realm, where 'time' and 'location' are meaningless concepts. Based on Preservation's description and Kelsier's own perspective on it, peeking into the Spiritual Realm shows you every possible future, or at least every one that you have some Connection to. On extremely small timescales, the future appears to be deterministic. If you burn atium then you're peeking into the Spiritual Realm and you're seeing what will happen in the next few seconds, in your immediate vicinity. Unless someone else has a method of peeking into the Spiritual as well (atium of their own, electrum, potential other abilities) in which case the possibilities multiply. The further ahead you try to look and the further away from yourself you try to push your clairvoyance, the more things break down into an ocean of possibilities where even a Shard that we know is/was really good at it will have great difficulty sorting out more likely possibilities from the extremely unlikely ones. 2
me2020 Posted October 6, 2017 Author Posted October 6, 2017 49 minutes ago, Weltall said: What's going on with future-sight is that you're peeking into the Spiritual Realm, where 'time' and 'location' are meaningless concepts. I think this can be a possible reason. I know that there is no concept of space in the spiritual realm, but i think the time still exists in the spiritual realm. Because we can still manipulate the spirit webs. And so , if time doesn't exist then manipulating spirit webs should not be possible.
Yata he/him Posted October 7, 2017 Posted October 7, 2017 10 hours ago, me2020 said: I think this can be a possible reason. I know that there is no concept of space in the spiritual realm, but i think the time still exists in the spiritual realm. Because we can still manipulate the spirit webs. And so , if time doesn't exist then manipulating spirit webs should not be possible. The Spiritual Realm is location indipendant and loosely time dependant.
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