Master_Moridin

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.

I could see it being possible if instead of putting multiple spiritweb chunks into the spike, they sorta...stacked. A soul is Connections and Investiture, so if you're stealing Connections maybe stealing the same ability again would just make those Connections stronger. If it's Investiture I could definitely see that just filling the spike more. You could probably also get around the "multiple abilities in one Atium spike" issue by invoking investiture interference. I want to say there's a WoB on whether you can double-up in one spike, but I haven't been able to find it.

I was actually considering writing up a post detailing a theory sort of like this, that Cognitive representations of the different nations became invested when the Dor happened, and so the location restricted magics are a result of a bond/Connection to those Cognitive entities. So basically there's really big (probably low-intelligence) super-spren that represent the different nations, and through virtue of a person's Spiritual Connection to a location they're also Connected to these spren, and Elantris helps amplify the effect by amplifying/concentrating/compressing Arelon's spren's power? Though I have no idea how the Moon Scepter letting you use a Selish magic away from its originating location would play into that. Edit: Closer to on-topic. Maybe the similarity to dead shardblades could have something to do with the cause of the problems also? For the Shaod it was the Reod changing Arelon's geography, which changed the necessary Forms for Elantris to work correctly. For shardblades it's a Surgebinder breaking their oaths. So a change in the bonding/power transfer medium?

I'm saying that if you spike for an ability on someone, you can't simply spike for the same ability at a different spot on that same person, cause you've already ripped out that part of the spiritweb. Edit: I may have misread the conversation. Rereading. Double Edit: I did misread. I thought your question about two spikes in the same bindpoint was asking if you could steal someone's ability twice doing that, and so as follows I thought Yata's response was in the same context.

I'm not sure this is true. A Hemalurgic spike is ripping off part of a person's spiritweb after all, not copying the ability onto the spike.

There's also the possibility that the part of the soul that the Breath is is the "raw investiture" and so potentially unrelated the Connections that make up the rest of someone's spiritweb. In that sort of situation I could see a fetus having to receive Breath in some manner separate from the rest of its spiritweb. Personally, I feel that whenever it gets its Breath, it's really early on cause otherwise pregnancies would probably be more problematic due to the sickly-ness not having a Breath means.

Objects can only be in or out of a bubble.

There's another WoB that says the black smoke he releases is corrupted Breath So the middle ground seems to be just, entropy-ing Investiture, rendering it unusable, instead of outright removing it from existence.

Even then it doesn't completely destroy investiture, just turns it into a corrupted unusable form.

Here's the other WoB Beginning to feel like he just forgot he already gave an answer. Or maybe there's more to it than we thought.

This...isn't certain. Brandon's actually RAFO'd a question about this just recently.

Well after doing some digging on Roshar a half lashing upwards leaves you suspended in mid-air, so while on Roshar at the least it's in magnitudes of Roshar's gravity

Was primarily just trying to find something we currently know of in Awakening to explain it without assuming miss-perception of the narrator. Don't really feel strongly about it.

Could it be possible that being a kandra is letting VenDell do some sort of very efficient Awakening, sort of like how the Tenth Heightening causes you to drain something to white? Would be interesting, if VenDell had some sort of efficient Awakening that didn't really reach Tenth Heightening levels, but left drained colors lighter.