M'Hael

What exactly is The Letter?

That article doesn't actually describe much or any of the science behind it at all, unfortunately. It's full of chock. That says, it's chock based on the real thing - there is a faster than light drive that uses those principles, and it is being researched by NASA, and it's called an Alcubierre drive.

 

And I have a theory on it.

 

 

A brief explanation, the science (like most good science) is easy to understand at the general level, and hard when you try to figure it out up close. Basically, the universe as we know it can be described in terms of spacetime - basically time and space together at the same time. Spacetime can be warped. The best example of this is a black hole, which deforms spacetime as it approaches the central gravity mass. All good so far.

 

So, the interesting thing is that if spacetime deforms, you can move without moving. Instead of moving within spacetime, you can simply warp spacetime around you directionally. You don't move, the universe moves around you. This is where it starts to get weird. To accomplish the warping of spacetime in such a manner, you need a field (any field would do, but a bubble is easiest) where the direction you want to go in has extremely high positive mass, and the other direction has a type of exotic matter known as negative mass (not proven to exist yet). And then it's basically like running your hand through bathwater: on one side you get a lot of spacetime (the wave in front of your hand), and behind your hand the water rushes in the fill the void. Same thing, except it is all of time and space instead of sudsy hot water. 

 

Anyway, long story short, the key to warping spacetime is control of mass, not time. Though it does make me question the nature of those allomantic time bubbles.

          While I do believe this is how it could happen, there is a slight problem in that theory. The only way we know of to distort space is by placing and condensing a central mass in an area of space to connect the area around it. By doing that though all matter in it the compressed area is crushed to the point of dust (maybe even less) and to traverse said singularity of mass, you would have to be moving at a speed faster than light so as not to get sucked in (which is where allomancy comes in.) I would best describe as a spread blanket (only it's a four-dimensional blanket). If you drop a bowling ball in the middle, it will warp the matter around it causing the traversal in between to cost less time. If you were to roll a toy car over the horizon of the singularity condensing this space, you would have to either go around, or roll it fast enough to fly over the hole to get to the other side, effectively forcing the need for allomancy to compress to time and, to an extant, energy to do so.

         If you could answer, I have a few questions for you in terms of the allomancy. How big of a bubble could you create if you were to use duralumin with cadmium? By any chance is there a metal that allows you to link your powers with other allomancers to make traversal possible? And another thing, how far into the timeline would this trilogy be, considering they might just have the technology we lack to warp without those risks? Au revoir! ☺☺☺

I also think you should add steam punk ( mechs, lasers, etc.) since Brandon said the last trilogy of the Mistborn series will be based "far in the future."

You guys should definitely finish the second book. It pulls a Game of Thrones move on one of the major characters (not spoiling). 

Will Sanderson ever give Jasnah her own book?

I have a recent theory similar to this on the first page, but I would say that Nightblood is a mixture. I think he is a spren (possibly Voidspren) that was "killed" so he stayed a shardblade then imbued with vast amounts of breath to use as a weapon for the Manywar.

It should be said that it is by no means clear that Endowment actually is bringing people back from the dead. It has been suggested that he/she is merely sticking splinters into their corpses, making a new lifeform rather than reviving the old one.

What I meant was can all Shards do the same process of creating new living splinters as you said.

What do you think it would be like if it was like Dissidia ( basically a Devil May Cry version of SSB for Final Fantasy)

Do you think Brandon Sanderson should create a Dissidia or SSB type of game with the characters of the Cosmere, with a neat story mode? I already made a  small list of the characters who would be playable as well as the stages. What do you think? Should it be created, and if so, who do you think should be playable so far?

So there has been word going around about various elements of different worlds in the Cosmere intermixing, like Vasher being in WoR. So this made me wonder, by any chance does Honor, or for that matter, any other Shard have their own version of the Iridescent Tones where splinters of Shards are formed by resurrecting the person? If so, it would explain why Talenel is back from the dead (sort of). Another question that hit is if they do, would Vin be involved later because she isn't technically dead, as she threw her own conscious along with Ruin's into "the abyss"?

By any chance is Calamity a Shard of Adolnasium from another world in the Cosmere and if so which is it? Would this mean that some sort of splinter changed it's orbit like what Sazed did at the end of Hero of Ages, or does that shard end up destroying it's former world?

Upon rereading the interludes,it seems to me that each order that shares a surge can do the same thing. Take the surge Progression, both the Edgedancers and the Truthwatchers can use it in the same way. So is uniqueness of each order in how they combine the surges, or can the ones that share them that all do the same thing? Going off topic, would the surges of Division and Gravitation cause black holes?

Hello, I am a new 17th Sharder. So getting to the topic, after finishing Words of Radiance, I came up with a theory as to what Vasher has to do with Roshar and Nightblood's origins. So what we know of Nightblood is that he absorbs investitures while being used, can destroy material in similar a manner to a shardblade,and is possibly a result of the fourth type of awakening that Vivenna speaks of. This is suspicious because spren are living ideas, given sentience with the Nahel Bond while Awakeners give objects sentience by implanting Breaths (similar to how Windrunners implant Stormlight into objects when using the 3rd Lashing). With the black smoke Nightblood emits, it is possible that he is both a spren and an object with Breaths, which means that during the Manywar, a Shardpool must have been involoved. Another possibility is that Nightblood was originally Voidspren brought to Warbreaker's world as a weapon and then was killed so it stayed in it's shardblade form (when a spren is "killed" it stays a shardblade, at least that is what I thought Syl meant). This could be supported by the possiblity that absorbs two Investitures (which could also mean that it is a chosen object of two Shards, like how Preservation chose Vin at Hero of Ages and was able to have an almost infinite amount of energy form it's the Mist.) What do you think? Is there some flaw in the theory?

Hello, I am a new 17th Sharder. So getting to the topic, after finishing Words of Radiance, I came up with a theory as to what Vasher has to do with Roshar and Nightblood's origins. So what we know of Nightblood is that he absorbs investitures while being used, can destroy material in similar a manner to a shardblade,and is possibly a result of the fourth type of awakening that Vivenna speaks of. This is suspicious because spren are living ideas, given sentience with the Nahel Bond while Awakeners give objects sentience by implanting Breaths (similar to how Windrunners implant Stormlight into objects when using the 3rd Lashing). With the black smoke Nightblood emits, it is possible that he is both a spren and an object with Breaths, which means that during the Manywar, a Shardpool must have been involoved. Another possibility is that Nightblood was originally Voidspren brought to Warbreaker's world as a weapon and then was killed so it stayed in it's shardblade form (when a spren is "killed" it stays a shardblade, at least that is what I thought Syl meant). This could be supported by the possiblity that absorbs two Investitures (which could also mean that it is a chosen object of two Shards, like how Preservation chose Vin at Hero of Ages and was able to have an almost infinite amount of energy form it's the Mist.) What do you think? Is some flaw in the theory.