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We already know that tapping iron doesn't make Wax denser because bullets still kill him, so adding more atoms can't be the solution. Why? Its not like he ran into a wall, he was standing on a spot that couldn't take his weight. I don't see the problem in my comment about the steong nuclear force, but an alternative can be that he is vibrating extremly fast, and speed= mass in the really high numbers (this one im half guessing cause im really no physicist). Vibrating won't make him bulletproof, but i dont see how stoping the vibration mid air will make him go faster. Actually i don't really know how dropping mass mid air will make you go faster so if anyone can explain in simple terms i will thank him...

@oltux72 @ChickenLiberty So i have read about the higgs field and gravitation forces in general, and apparently almost all of any particle mass comes from the energy of the bond between the quarks - the strong nuclear force... This got me thinking that maybe tapping an iron metalmind doesn't make you magically more dense (pun intended), it makes the bond stronger - more energy and therefore more mass, all thanks to e=mc^2. Too good to be true?

See, you are missing my last calculation: if you can use 100% of your body weight in a planck second (which is 1.911X10^-43), you can get a density of a normal, existing black hole. If you use it in a whole second you will need to store billions and billions of tons - not very practical. Will this black hole survive more? Idk thats more of a physics issue.

I did calculate that - the poor feruchemist would have to spend time as 1% of his weight. And a planck second is so short that you can potentially become really dense. Yeah thats exactly the quote i read that convinced me it was possible. After the superaonic boom Marasi created accidentally and that woman who asked Wax about momentum and redshift my hopes got up... Guess we will see it some day....and maybe FTL travel will be possible using the same method with compounding

Thanks for the answers! I didn't know that metal minds have a limitation or waste of energy cuz of all the end-positive deal but nevertheless i hope this will turn up one way or another.

EDIT: There are NO spoilers ahead for any book. So i have an idea: is it possible to create a black hole using the Feruchemical ability to store weight? First of all i am no physicist, and all my calculation my be incorrect, so feedback is appreciated. storing weight in iron is something a feruchemist do all the time and it's said that it changes his density when tapping the iron - not his strength though it affects it. and what is a black hole if not a really REALLY dense point in space? Could a skimmer store enough weight to use it all in one second and make himself so dense that even the light can't escape his gravitational force? there are standards to black holes - according to wikipedia - some are huge, some are even micro. Assuming a skimmer who is 1.80 meters and 80kg, is storing 99% of his weight, we could, after a bit more than a whopping quadrillion years (1,000,000,000,000,000) use all that weight in a second to make himself dense as a large black hole. But we don't really need a whole second isn't it? we can do it in half a second' or a tenth, or a planck second: the shortest time possible in the universe. This actually shortens the storing time to less than a second! That's not even considering compounding... Sanderson once said that increasing weight affects the Higgs field, which is essentially gravity. The only problem I see is that they will need to empty the reserves in the shortest time possible according to science, and by what i have read i don't see any indication to the speed of which you can tap into a metalmind. In conclusion, any skimmer can destroy Scadrial without breaking a sweat. If you want more calculations, or see something wrong please say so. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. TLDR; skimmer OP must nerf quick.