Post-Honor Surgebinding is "less checked"?

[HSuperLee]

I imagine soulcasting antimatter would be supremely difficult, up to a certain level of scientific development, and then it would be rather simple. To soulcast, the object you're trying to transform has to have enough cognitive identity to be "bargained with." In a world that doesn't know about atoms, you'd have to convince a whole object to become the complete opposite of what it is. In a world with scientific knowledge of quarks, you just have to convince the strange quark of a proton to become an up quark, and you've created an antiproton. Not sure how you could create positrons though. I don't know leptons that well and don't want to spend a long time googling it.

[Rossamund]

I think the worries are somewhat overblown.
Time  bubbles are overly complicated so that objects entering and exiting don't have more speed. So Scadrians are only on track to make undetectable projectiles with near instant travel times, but there not weapons of mass destruction unless you strap on ettmetal or somesuch.

As for antimatter i think the 10 essences are solidly fixed in matter. Though there is the possibility of soul-casting a pure lump of plutonium or other radioactive metals and instantly creating a fission bomb or radiation poisoning. So Roshar is doomed either way.

Elantrians can teleport things into space and then let them fall on you.

I take back what i said, they're doomed.

[Fanghur Rahl he/him]

51 minutes ago, HSuperLee said:

I imagine soulcasting antimatter would be supremely difficult, up to a certain level of scientific development, and then it would be rather simple. To soulcast, the object you're trying to transform has to have enough cognitive identity to be "bargained with." In a world that doesn't know about atoms, you'd have to convince a whole object to become the complete opposite of what it is. In a world with scientific knowledge of quarks, you just have to convince the strange quark of a proton to become an up quark, and you've created an antiproton. Not sure how you could create positrons though. I don't know leptons that well and don't want to spend a long time googling it.

Protons don’t have strange quarks. They’re composed of two up quarks and a down quark, whereas an antiproton is the other way around. Strange matter is something else.

[HSuperLee]

1 minute ago, Fanghur Rahl said:

Protons don’t have strange quarks. They’re composed of two up quarks and a down quark, whereas an antiproton is the other way around. Strange matter is something else.

Then Google lied to me. But the point still stands.

[Fanghur Rahl he/him]

14 hours ago, HSuperLee said:

Then Google lied to me. But the point still stands.

Actually, considering that an object made of matter and that same object made of antimatter are completely indistinguishable in all but a subatomic context, I would think that soulcasting one to the other would probably be pretty easy assuming it’s even possible. The soul of the object would probably just be “meh, all the same to me!”