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Actually fascinating, and i got most of my answers. But the first thing does cause some issues. Essentially the two days of walking in Shadesmar represent two days in the physical realm? even if there is lightyears of distance? That means you arrive a place before the light that was emitted from your body arrives there so it does enable time travel. Unless you consider that in the cosmere time is absolute? How do you resolve this issue ?

Thanks, glad to be here. I actually know the forum just never created an account beforehand. I think i ve read everything though i was completely drunk when i read shadow for silence in the forest of hell and so my memory of it is somewhat vague. now to answer : 1. See that s where my problem lie FTL travel shouldn’t be possible at all even via cognitive shadow travel. Because one cannot arrive at a place before the light he emitted without travelling back in time. So there got to be an upper limit to cognitive shadow travelling it from the POV of the physical realm. Like if i leave earth for alpha centauru it might appear to me in the cognitive realm that it takes me 3 weeks but really i will arrive 4 years after ( as if i travelled at light speed). But since the distance also are different in the cognitive realm it naturally result there must be a maximum perceived speed. So to say. At the very least if i travel with someone through it and we perceive time there the same way then our speed is necessarily limited. Thank you very much to you all for the warm welcome. I must also add that i m french and so some of my readings have been in that language meaning i might sometimes take times to answer to check the french translation of concepts evocated.

Thank you very much, i ve followed the forum for years but never suscribed before. 1. i understand the distance dilatation thing, my problem is with the traveling speed in the cognitive realm, the time spent to travel distance in the physical realm at light speed has to be superior or equal to the same time spent (in the eye of the observers) by a world hopper in the cognitive realm, so to speak because FTL travel always mean time travel. So even if distances and perception of time are different in the cognitive realm for the observer they must remain coherent. Do we agree? 2. Yes i agree ( which is what i mean by relative, i mean black holes do exists and so on). Are investiture black holes possible btw? ( okay that s me sidetracking) 3) Thanks for the answer on this one i ll wait and see on this one

Here we go : Question 1 : Distance are different in the cognitive and the physical realms. And much less in the cognitive realm but considering that time travel to the past is impossible, one cannot travel faster than light in the cognitive realm, implying that the speed of light ( maximum traveling speed) in the cognitive realm is smaller than in the physical realm. Would that be correct? Of course it would still make travel faster but dependent on the maximum speed that can be reached. Like if we assume that a character travel from Roshar to Scadrial and the two planets are say 5 light years appart he would take 5 years of relative time to travel through the cognitive realm? Question 2 : Time in the Cosmere on the physical realm is also relative. As proven by the ability of investiture to affect speed of time ( Chromium and Bendalloy) Fundamentally it doesn’t create time travel into the past complications consideting that it s very similar to time relativity on earth. But does a time dilatation in the physical realm affect the cognitive realm. Basically is there a superposition of Realms or not. And if so does that mean that someone using a bendalloy/chromium in a place of the physical realm could freeze someone traveling through the cognitive realm ( and or make them speed up). Which could create time travel complications if the speed in the cognitive realm is C ( relative to the physical realm obviously) Question 3 : If there is no superposition of Realms what would happen if one were to open a perpendicularity in a Bendalloy/Chromium bubble? By the way i m willing to learn i m an imbecile and don’t understand anything to realmatic magic