Oltux72

At a guess: Finely grind down the atium, melt the gold and sprinkle the atium in, hoping that it will dissolve.

Yes. It does have a spectrum even without spectral lines, which is what you are after with a spectrograph. You'll just get black body radiation depending on temperature.

Why not? They may have worked for the Lord Ruler and just switched to the new management, so to speak.

I never addressed this point and it is very important. Yes, plantation Skaa did not use these technologies, but tat is the very point. A manor lord with granaries very close to a canal can call up all hands for a few days to carry all the grain to the barges and to bring in the harvest on their backs. A family farm cannot do that. They are alone. As a family farmer you really need a higher level of technology and more equipment if you want to compete with large estates. And in that case the economy of scale is always on the side of the large farm. Family farms nevertheless win in some places, because they have motivation on their side. But that matters much less on Scadrial. More seed grain needed? Who cares, it grows like weed? Less yield per acrage? Why bother, we have all the land we need. And that is the point, by removing land as a cost factor Sazed let the next cost factor dominate. At their leve of technology that was capital. And hence the people with the capital and the experience in running enterprises dominated agriculture. That necessarily turned out to be the nobles.

People who do not immediately cause suspicion and are seen as neutrals not spies. There are good reasons to just use the caravans, whom we know to exist. The cans in Oathbringer were not 300 years old.

That you work for somebody at a remote location does not require that your employer sent you there. For all we know Sazed contacted the Lord Ruler's explorers. That Harmony now sends Kandra, does not mean that he could not have sent somebody else first. Iyatil and the cans of fish in Shadesmar prove that at least southern Scadrians have been worldhopping for generations. That no Ghostblood should be a Pathian or have Pathians among close family is quite unlikely.

Or they are preparing for a siege. They have no experience with real wars using firearms.

We learn in chapter 11 that Harmony is sending out spies. I am afraid we need to call them that. But whom would a Shard spy upon? We need to assume that a Kandra cannot decieve another Shard. Neither could a Kandra substitute for anybody with special abilities. That narrows things down a lot, if you think about it Odium is no longer a target the dark side of Taldain is no longer a target if you go to Nalthis, you would be something in between a drab and somebody with a Breath you cannot impersonate an Elantrian And why send Kandra? They are not exactly nummerous and replacable. Yet Harmony would have Metalborn among the Pathians. What is his purpose and target?

The Basin is likely seismically stable. Hence our incentive to concentrate on quakes and volcanoes drops away. They do, however, face one natural hazard: fog. To concentrate on sonar to overcome that is a possibility. Based on probably not. Triggered by? Tineyes are likely to also be sensitive to vibrations of the ground.

No. It should not make them younger, respectively older depending on perspective. In the case of Sel you need to differentiate between internal and external age as opposed to units of measurements. A 20 year old Rosharan is 22 in Earth years. But if you measured his or her age with a clock you would still arrive at the same amount of time if you take the same model of clock. That is not the case with Sel. The length of the Selish year may be different, but a clock would really run slower on Sel, hence it would mean that to an exterior observe it takes longer to attain an age.

I must reject that definition of a hero. A hero is a courageous , honorable person. You are mixing up ethics and heroism. That is senseless. You will find heroes on both sides of wars. Kelsier is not a clearly good man, obviously so, for he was a criminal. But he is a hero to his people. Yes, he is not humble by any means. But he really did the things he is venerated for.

All in all he is a hero. He toppled a bloodthirsty monster, liberated the Skaa and fought Ruin. He just is not a humble or forgiving man. Nor does he forget whose side he is on.

Torpedo tube style? Compressed air to be triggered on the ship? Hence him relying on Waxillium.

I don't need to see into it. That's why we have a pipe. I use synchronized watches at the point I drop/propel downward the object and at the impact point. I have no idea how to verify these theories. Well, I am afraid that depends on speed being a vector. If the bubble internally shrank consistently in all directions, how would you measures distances as opposed to time? At most you could measure the energy it takes to get up to a defined speed. But that does not work with constant speeds. That is in fact what I would propose in that the stationary bendalloy bubble sort of shortens the distance, acting as the warp bubble and the moving cadmium bubble works like the unbent space inside the warp bubble.

Fair enough. So we complicate the experiment a little. We have the objects narrowly miss. They, however, obviously do have a gravitational attraction to each other. Which one feels which attraction?

It seems to me that there is a problem with that. Suppose you are on an object lrge enough to anchor a bubble to. You are on a collision course with another object. You use a bendalloy bubble. To an external observer you are now faster. Which momentum do you have on impact? The one you would calculate or the one the people outside would calculate?

The problem is that the same measurement can be seen from both sides. Suppose I build a vacuum pipe with some observation ports through a speed bubble. Then I drop an object through it. The time it takes to traverse through the bubble is different to an observer outside or inside the bubble, isn't it? Now we repeat the experiment with an object not just dropped but accelerated to 50% of the speed of light outside the bubble. Let's say the bubble has a "factor" of 10. What speeds do the observers get for the object? Is one of them superluminal? If the answer to that is negative, it seems to me that the speed of light has been altered.

The same to whom? That is the culprit of the question. It seems to me that if an external observer measured the same speed whether a speed bubble is in the way or not, an internal observer would measure an altered speed of light. And in that case: what happens to matter that is thereby superluminal?

Is there evidence that they are FTL?

The redshift also introduces a thermodynamic problem, which the absence of a redshift actually solves. If you have two objects of the same temperature and put one of them into a speed bubble, heat will flow by radiation. Well, that is kind of the point. The problem goes away if you consider a speed bubble to be a kind of relativistic effect. Kinetic energy and momentum are different to an internal and external observer and the border decides what view applies. How so?

I think I have figured out a method. Famous last words. But anyway, I cannot find a flaw under certain assumptions on how bubbles work. So, first we have to understand something about relativistic travel. I am sorry, but I will have to do a bit of Special Relativity simplified to brutal shortness. What happens if you just keep accelerating? That depends on viewpoint - hence relativity. Very well let's say that before you start you determine the distance between the point A and B you are going to travel. From your (moving) point of view the voyage will take less time (given enough acceleration) than light would need to travel from A to B, because from your view point the distance between A and B shrinks. From the view point of an external observer at rest with respect to A and B, your travel will take at least as long as light will need and your (the traveller's) time will slow down. Now let's suppose there is a bendalloy bubble between A and B. We all probably agree that it will take less time from the viewpoint of an external observer than your time. That is kind of the point of a speed bubble. If we take an interstellar bubble this is a deeply problematic solution to the traveller. So what prevents us from putting the traveller into a smaller cadmium bubble? That should do it and it seems surprisingly simple. But I cannot find a flaw, under one major condition: speed bubbles do not alter the speed of light. You just need a moving cadmium bubble inside a stationary bendalloy bubble.

Sure, but where is the connection to that? As far as I can see the redshift and the momentum question are independent of each oter.

I am afraid I do not understand the conclusion drawn from the WOBs. In fact they would lead me to the opposite conclusion. So you do not gain kinetic energy leaving a speed bubble. That is fairly easily explained by a sort of relativity. Measured from inside the bubble your speed is not increased inside the bubble. But for that to be true, they would need to measure the speed of light inside the bubble to be c. Consequenly the speed of light inside the bubble measured from outside the bubble has to be > c.

Do we have mechanical engineers among us? I'd use an airtight chamber sealed at one end with a metal foil. Then I'd attach one tip of a spanreed with a rod to the center of the foil. Then the spanreed is rested on a well lubricated pivot allowing free swinging in the plane defined by the rod and the spanreed. Here we go. What do you think? As far as I can see Roshar at the time of Rhythm of War has all the necessary technology.

So, thinking about this a bit, do they have a rural population? And if not, what does puttting all the people into cities mean for economics? In particular, how do they do mining? Can they fish? Does the Drakness extend over the oceans?