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314 digits. Idk if I can still repeat them all, but at one point I could. I chose that many because… pi.

TPBM can do a backflip

My official guess: 17 temples
1 in Brazil
1 in Panama
2 in the Caribbean 
1 in Canada
2 in Utah
3 in Pacific Islands
1 in Florida
1 in South Africa
2 somewhere else in Africa
1 in Southeast Asia
1 in Illinois
1 in Europe

Not religiously, but at times we decide to take a step back and “fast” from the internet of social media. We do this to help recenter our focus on God and Jesus.

Also, we do religiously abstain from alcohol, drugs, smoking, wine, swearing, and premarital relations of a… personal nature. I’m probably forgetting some embarrassingly obvious thing we don’t do, but those are the big ones.

The entire time I was watching the BoM video, I was just thinking “Imagine they cast Jason Momoa as Jesus Christ.”

My guess for this conference is 21 temples:
3 in Utah
2 in Brazil
2 somewhere on the East Coast
1 in Canada
4 somewhere in Africa
2 in Pacific Islands
1 in Russia
1 in China
I have no guesses about the rest

2 hours ago, cometaryorbit said:

Not in our world, no, but you also can't make your coefficient of friction zero either, or change the direction of gravity for just one object.

I think Surgebinding is kind of like reality editing, changing physical (or Cognitive) variables for whatever person/object you're affecting. Gravitation changes the direction of acceleration due to gravity for whatever is being Lashed, Abrasion sets friction to zero, Transformation changes the Cognitive definition of something (e.g. "I'm a goblet" -> "I'm blood"), Transportation changes the location of someone (or something?), etc.

Syl talks about natural forces like gravity being basically 'an agreement between friends'. Surgebinding is changing that agreement, temporarily and locally, imo.

Yes, I completely agree. I did my best to give an Earth definition for what was going on, but like all fantasy magic systems, we can only explain so much. There is always that point that we have to stop and say, “This is magic”

18 minutes ago, cometaryorbit said:

I'm not convinced Abrasion necessarily affects air resistance (that strikes me as possibly an Adhesion effect under 'Pressure and Vacuum') but if it did, why couldn't it work by setting the drag coefficient to zero?

The drag coefficient isn’t an arbitrary number, you cant just decide for it to become 0. She isn’t changing the density of the air (probably), she is changing her speed relative to the air, though This isnt direct and it is an insignificant amount. Air vibrates at several hundred miles per hour, so her going a bit faster doesn’t change much. And once again, she isn’t changing her size.

I have read through all the stuff, and I’m going to try my best to piece together what I gathered from all that, and compare it to my limited knowledge of physics…

Physics doesn’t work here. Quantum physics is the answer.

For physics to apply, then I think we would be looking at an air resistance formula. You can look at all factors in that, and it doesn’t make sense for an Edgedancer to be manipulating any of them. Lift isn’t changing the density of air, she isn’t directly influencing her speed (when using powers. She obviously does when she slaps the ground), she isn’t changing the drag coefficient (though that is a whole equation of itself), and she isn’t changing her surface area. If you don’t change any of those, then your air resistance doesn’t change.

According to quantum physics, when two things encounter each other, there is a non zero chance for one to pass through the other without interacting. This is how things like glass and photons interact to let light pass through. If you fill a glass with water and pick it up, you might not be able to see your hand through the water and glass. But if you squeeze the glass really hard, that infinitesimal amount that your fingers got closer will increase that non zero chance enough to allow some photons to pass through and reach your eyes. 
This chance exists with bigger things as well, just much much smaller. You could theoretically stand up and walk through a wall, or your cat could fall through you when you pick it up, or a bullet could go through you, etc. The chances are just so incredibly small that… there isn’t even a comparison that would give the right idea. 
I think that what Lift does is use Stormlight to increase those odds. There isn’t any scientific explanation for what she does, but I think she accesses the spiritual realm to let her pass through air, or at least ignore the presence of the electrons around her that would be pushing against her skin.

1 minute ago, Ta'veren Kaladin said:

I don't expect to be in people's shardiversaries yet, I'm pretty new still, only semi-active, and I tend to hunker down in only a few areas when I do post.

Don’t worry, I think Frustration is the first person to put me in his Shardiversary in over a year. It’s my own fault for not being active, but still a bit surprising when I see someone’s Shardiversary from 3 weeks ago, but I never got a ping

Yoooooooo, Happy Shardiversary!!!!!!!!! I love you man, you are so awesome. I love all your content and think you are truly a G.O.A.T. I know I haven’t been super active recently, but I’m glad you are still going strong and doing what you love. Never lose yourself, never lose who you are. You are amazing! Happy Shardiversary!

What CANT you get at Radiant Eats?

Doesn’t everything, according to science, have a base root of truth?

Yes, I have, it is very good

TPBM can play a song from memory on any instrument

Words of Radiance, but not really

3 minutes ago, Kvothe the Bloodless said:

What is thy opinion

For context: I have been to over 20 countries, and have eaten some nasty foods like sautéed alpaca with guinea pig eye seasoning. That is not a joke. I have eaten that. It was traumatizing for me, but I did it. If you were to put a single bite of pizza with pineapple in front of me, and a huge tub of the alpaca stuff beside it, I would eat the alpaca.

I have been summoned.

I CALLED IT. I told all my friends and family that there would be 17 new temples. I said that Ohio and Florida would get one each. I guessed Peru and Brazil would each get one! Yesssssssssss!!!!!!!!

14 hours ago, King Bean said:

hmm did your hamster die "naturally"?

Just know that if you are spraying febreeze and your hamster decides to come lick the residue up, it will be fine for a day, then it will sit doing nothing for a day. Then intense seizures and twitching will set in, followed by death.

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense, and sorry about the way I had worded the question. I see now how the way I said it was wrong, I had been trying to ask what kind of math is most utilized, but it came out as asking what math it was.

Do you enjoy physics?

You have some knowledge of physics, right? What branch of math is it? Would AP Physics be a bunch of algebra and systems of equations, or something else?

3 hours ago, Frustration said:

You should be more active.

What happened anyway?

That is a long story filled with physical injury, mental health, obligations in life, and complete mental breakdowns

9 hours ago, Frustration said:

Hopefully pretty active.

One year ago I would have said the same about myself… but we see how active I am now