Aradel

I remember in the WoA that the headings would sometimes repeat, but with ruin's changes included. I don't think that any of the FE were repeated, much less changed. I doubt ruin would find a reason to tamper with the logbook. He needed it to be as authentic as possible so that Vin might be able to figure it out. If he even cared about the logbook it was because it helped Vin kill the Lord Ruler.

Wait, Scadrial has magical light too!? I draw on the power of ! (sorry couldn't help it, warning about mild language in the link.)I think the Cosmere breaks as few of our laws of physics as possible. I haven't run the math on if there really should be a red-shift or not, but I'm willing to accept the speed of light answer for myself.

Okay, I don't think you were thinking what I thought you were thinking after all. Also, I dub thee *Shooter of Goradel's Ego*, I'm glad you're around to correct my faulty logic. I didn't think that mass shadows wouldn't tweak inertia, thanks.

[/Face+Palm] Of course I would have forgotten about bloodmakers. I find myself agreeing with you about flooding. It matches up with a lot of terms there already.

I hurt myself laughing at that one. Thanks. Synonyms for tap (the correct definition): bleed, bore, broach, draft, drain, draw, draw forth, draw off, draw out, drill, empty, lance, milk, mine, open, penetrate, perforate, pump, riddle, siphon, spear, spike, stab, unplug, unstopper, use, utilize I actually think bleed might work, it has connotations that work with the diminishing returns that are suffered while doing it.

Jostling implies some kind of kinetic energy exchange. Since he didn't hit anything physical and the only kinetic energy involved was his own momentum, something about moving from "compressed time" to "real time" disrupted his momentum. Temporal bubbles *have* to affect a geometric space. Space and Time are inseparable. Also, Photons are objects too. The easy answer for the red-shift is that light moves at *THE SPEED OF LIGHT* twenty seconds of compressed time is nothing to a photon. My theory (with my limited understanding of physics, so don't take it for granted.) is that the "edge" of the bubble is a kind of microscopic "stretched" area of space-time because the Slider is compressing all the space-time inside the bubble. When something hits that "stretched" portion it's like something being weightless and suddenly the gravity's turned back on. Suddenly there's space-time interaction that wasn't there before and has to be taken into account. Note that "turning the gravity back on" is not the same as falling into a gravitational pull. That would be a gradual change in space-time. Crossing the "edge" of a bendalloy or cadmium bubble is sudden. Also I think a few people have asked how you could get shot at from outside a cadmium bubble if bullets are deflected. The easy answer is that they keep shooting until one hits you, they have all the time in to world.

True. The books mention several times that changing "weight" doesn't change how fast you fall. But General Relativity doesn't change that either. At least I don't think it does. A building falls faster than a baseball by such an impossibly minuscule amount that it's not even worth trying to measure. You have to have planet-sized mass differences to get notable differences the way I think you're thinking.

New Question for Brandon (read as "New task for Peter"): What the crem do we call the feruchemical equivalent of flaring since we can't call it compounding? This is going to keep me up at night. T.T

I don't think dark matter would be the answer, Nobody's really sure what that stuff is made of anyway. What I do remember about the physics of mass and and gravity (density not included, sorry) is called General Relativity In laymen's terms it works like this. Mass (determined by both physical mass and energy) bends space-time like a bowling ball on a sheet of cloth. More massive objects make bigger bends and smaller objects fall into their "dip" like a baseball on the same sheet as the bowling ball. (It's not a perfect analogy. I'd hate to see what would happen if gravity pulled us towards things only a few times our size. Ouch.) My theory is that storing and tapping an Ironmind increases and decreases your "mass shadow" (the dip in the cloth of space-time) . That means that gravity treats you like an object of smaller or greater mass than you really are. It would actually be a simpler explanation because all that's changing is how much energy your mass exerts on space-time.

The most mundane way of saying it I could think of was "Stretching" since that's what is happening the feruchemical power itself, not the feruchemist's stores. stretching his feruchemy? It's not quite what I'd like it to be. It needs to be a good component for "flaring" metals in allomancy, a sense of pushing your magic a bit further than it's supposed to go.

Did Miles have to have a spike to be manipulated though? A deft touch with emotional allomancy, maybe some feruchemical fortune and freindship, (alliteration! only I think the freindship is supposed to be bonds.) And suddenly he's on your side. Also, I think it was mentioned when he used his Auger abilities that he was surprised to find that his past and present selves hated each other. Did anyone else catch that?

Aggregate seems appropriate, but is worse than compression. Concentrates? Accumulates? Also, sorry about the textbites. They're not quotes, but are quotable.

Ah! I hadn't thought of that. So a non-decayed spike would most likely be somewhere in the ballpark of 60%-80% of the original power. (Whether it's an attribute, feruchemic, or allomantic spike should make no difference in power transfer.) It's impossible to give something partial sentience, it's all or nothing. If there's not enough energy (one spike), the mistwraith will only get the blessing. If there's a surplus of energy (two spikes), the mistwraith gains sentience, and a blessing proportionate to the excess energy. TenSoon might have gotten more out of the potency spikes than OreSeur did, because TenSoon was already sentient.

While I love tinkering around with your theory in my head. I'm fairly sure that Brandon is set on Atium storing age. I'll give credit to the vitality idea too. Atium is a God metal after all, storing an attribute that affects other feruchemical attributes would make sense. Assuming that the Lord Ruler didn't know all the metals, or didn't have easy access to them without the secret getting out, I don't think that duralumin or any of the other "new" metals would come into play. As for the math... I take forever at math, I'm going to use a plothole and say that the Lord Ruler is the Lord Ruler, he doesn't let little things like math get in his way.

By the time I got halfway through the topic, I had a good response ready. You just stole it. "Diminishing Returns" Makes all kinds of sense when you take the AoL Ars Arcanum into Account. (Alliteration!) When a feruchemist spends some time storing strength, he's using his own feruchemical power to push that strength into a kind of temporal limbo, outside of time. Later, the feruchemist can again use his feruchemical ability to reach back and draw the strength from past, connecting the two points in time with feruchemy. Paraphrase: When a Feruchemist taps a metalmind, the Feruchemist pulls energy through time, connecting his present self to a past self who is pushing that same energy forward through time. Compounding (which we're going to have to find a new term for) refers to pulling back that reserve faster than it was stored, and puts a strain on his own feruchemical power. He's reaching to draw strength back from himself through time, connecting to Two Separate Periods of Time, forcing his feruchemical ability to work harder, and losing some energy to compensate. Paraphrase: When a Feruchemist compounds his power, he pulls on energy from two separate times, connecting to two past selves instead of one.

I blame my cold for my lateness. Happy Belated Birthday!

I know, it'm much less interesting when they aren't immune to all poisons. By the way, cadmium and bendalloy are both nicely toxic.

GASP! Gnats aren't completely useless! ... Anyway, yeah, that's what I'm saying. They'd be able to dissolve (not burn, Duralumin-burns Aluminum-dissolves) metals from their systems. Not much use, but it keeps them from getting poisoned. [lightbulb] On second thought, if a Ferring of a toxic metal was also an Aluminum misting they'd never poison themselves with their Metalminds. [/lightbulb] Anyone guess what happens if you burn or dissolve a metal that has a Feruchemic charge to it?

I like that question. I liked the idea of four cycles of the well. That's 163. Sixteen metals, three investments.

Do you have a reference for that? I must have missed that somewhere.

I didn't say they'd be going to space naked. (involuntary shudder) They'd be suited up, but having extra breath stored in a small metal bracer is still a big benefit to space-walking. Also, thanks for the correction. Marasi said it, not Wayne. Could she be wrong though?

This sounds very much like something an author might look up when thinking up ideas for powers relating to space travel. Brandon may even have this in mind, 'Gasper' ferrings are obviously intended for the sci-fi because they carry their own air supply. He may have planned cadmium and bendalloy for this exact purpose. The only question is how do the mistings get the bends in the needed shape? And what about when Marasi asks Wayne what happens when a cadmium and a bendalloy bubble go up at the same time and he answers "nothing" ?

If Harmony uses melted-down Inquisitor spikes, they must have hit terminal drain after tree-hundred odd years and being divided up. I think hemalurgic spikes always contain a bit of power, but at terminal it's not enough to grant much of a benefit. The power of Ruin might be able to extend the life of a spike. Vin couldn't wear hers 24/7 growing up, and it still gave her an edge over copperclouds. Though some of that may have been superior Allomantic ability. Sazed guessed at the end of HoA that she'd been absorbing bits and pieces of preservation's mist all her life.