Master_Moridin

I think this might be the best answer. Whenever it's used to make something slippery, it just coats that surface in a perfectly smooth layer of stormlight. Similarly, if Abrasion can increase friction, perhaps it just coats the surface in an incredibly rough layer of stormlight.

Well, to be technical it just says that physical things become Investiture when they travel to the cognitive.

If stuff in the Physical Realm is made of mass-energy, what is stuff in the Cognitive Realm made of?

Yeah, I don't recall anything that explicit. We do have some quotes that say a Shard must Invest in a particular planet, but that's not quite specific enough to say that planets in the same system have different looking Cognitive Realms. I also remember the WoB Oversleep was talking about, though I don't remember where it is. It honestly didn't say much from what I remember, just basically that Shard + Planet = Magic I've actually been mulling over an idea similar to this. As a general statement, assume that a person exhibits magic due to the interactions of their spiritweb with some source of Investiture (Surgebinder's spren bond, Scadrian's connection to Preservation and Ruin, Elantrians and the Dor, etc). Then consider that a spiritweb is just a chunk of innate Investiture with a bunch of Connections. When you think about a planet then and how it would have a ridiculous number of Connections with its inhabitants, everything on it, the star and others planets in its system, and presumably even between the different things that make it up, that's one really big spiritweb. Then a Shard Invests in it. Boom, magic system with its own unique focus.

Ah, thank you.

I might be completely remembering something that doesn't exist, but wasn't there a recent WoB that talked about how breaking a Sand Masters sand stream with a hand was due to investiture interference? Cause I also remember that quote making mention that this was related to Identity. So long as that quote actually does exist somewhere, then it seems likely the Identity of a person is "encoded" in their innate Investiture, not in their Connections.

yeah, iirc the phrasing of the question correctly, the answer could easily be read as not everyone can do it, cause not everyone knows how to. Gonna try and find it. Found it. It'd be a tight wiggle, but there's room.

Here's the WoB for reference

I don't use Facebook and someone created a Stylish theme for Gmail that I use that makes it super dark. I had problems with the old site, but it wasn't quite as bad as the new is. I think it might be the monitor size thing you mention, cause the purple sides are barely the width of my little finger on my monitor, or it might be that there's just more white than before.

Oh hey, thread about the update I didn't notice. I had sent a tweet about this topic, but might as well go ahead and post here for extra chance of being noticed. Is there any sort of dark theme option I can set for the site? I have a specific eye condition and the site being a good 90% white now is making it really hard to even type this.

We've also seen that a bubble's position is independent of the source. Once a person throws a bubble up they can move around in it and even leave it. We know by WoB that a bubble determines what still is based on the things it "intersects". To me it seems things like the cube are edge cases, where the only thing the bubble has to determine its concept of still off of is its source. So our hovering Mistborn throws up a bubble. So long as the bubble doesn't intersect anything that would supersede the Mistborn's concept of still, it should follow the Mistborn around if they wobble around and such. If they Mistborn suddenly dropped to the ground and the bubble touched the planet, then its concept of still should shift. If it wasn't for the carriage incident and the WoB about the bubble intersecting I'd be inclined to agree it has something to do with the source's concept of still. As is I think it's a sort of conversation where it tries to reach a decision about what still is, and it just happens that the more massive and fast something is, the more weight (heh) its argument has. Alternatively: Since humans are more Cognitively complicated than a cube, a human's more complex conception of still as related to their perception of their environment might make things odd, in which case a wobbling hovering Mistborn would move around inside their bubble. I actually think I prefer this idea of how the bubbles would interact with humans at least. I do however still think that a passing train intersecting the bubble would override the Mistborn's concept of still.

Well, it's always possible the Cosmere runs off of popular science xD

My initial assumption would be that the bubble is sort of continually querying everything in it for what they think still is, and then assuming which ever conception of still has the stronger argument, and then it tries to convince everything else in it that that idea of still is correct. That or it only queries initially and when something new enters it. I figure the Realmatics would possibly be somewhat like low-key soulcasting. Object's Cognitive is convinced of the new idea of still, its Spiritual Connections readjust themselves slightly to reflect that. This would have some possibly weird implications though, the foremost being that it could potentially be possible for bubbles to be "picked up" by something heavy and fast enough hitting them under the right conditions. Say, for example, a Mistborn was making themselves hover over a railroad track such that when they threw up a bubble, it didn't touch the planet (this is just a cautionary thing to avoid the planet possibly overriding anything else). Currently, the bubble's only conception of still is the Mistborn. Now, let's say a train comes along the track at full speed, and intersects the bottom of the bubble. If the bubble is querying things that enter it for their idea of still (and as we know a train is massive and fast enough to count as 'still'), then it seems likely the bubble's idea of still would change to that of the train and get dragged along by it.

Subatomic bonds are the result of the transfer of force particles, which get their mass through Higgs field interactions.

Well, this kind of obsession is a thing that exists in our world too. Somewhat common considering the number of people in the world.

Are Cohesion and Tension roughly equivalent to hardness and stiffness, respectively?

I suspect that other planets would have their own "gateway" type of thing, with different methods of opening them (Aons/Forms on Elantris for example). If they also all had a leaking gateway, maybe they'd have to change fuels? (at this point it gets to pure speculation though)

I presume special relativity would still apply to steel compounding, as all it's doing is giving you more physical speed.

I think I might know what this "other mechanism" is. I think the cork is adopting the frame of reference of the bubble, which would only know about the existence of things it "intersects". So let's say when thrown, the cork's frame of reference is the planet. As you said, to the cork the train is moving. The bubble's frame of reference is the train. When the cork hits the bubble, they have a sort of conversation, where the cork's idea of "still" is changed to be the same as the bubble's. The cork proceeds to continue moving north relative to the position it was in when it hit the bubble, then when it hits the other side of the bubble, its frame of reference jumps back to that of the planet. I hope I described that well.

Previously you've said when a gemstone is infused, the light it emits is from the Spiritual Realm. Is the mechanism beyond what causes this similar to that behind Perpendicularities? Could an infused gemstone be described as a small-scale perpendicularity?

The description of ettmetal glowing makes me think of how metals glow in the Cognitive. Perhaps they're a sorta super-open gateway, constantly leaking Investiture? Though if so it makes me wonder why it doesn't "burn" away.

There isn't anything for the brain to shut down. All breathing is just the result of air pressure and the diaphragm letting the lungs expand. Like king of nowhere said, the diaphragm might eventually atrophy though.

Just a note, AonDor is solely the magic of Elantrians, unless you just meant Dor there?

I said I want to say there's one about whether you can or not. I didn't say there was one that confirms it, and I also didn't say there is even a WoB on the topic for certain. I just seem to remember seeing one.