The possibilities....
The possibilities....
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I am not learning a new gradient and curl
Edit: divergence. It's been a while
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You don't need to learn it. You have magic. You can make it
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Fuck the square cube law, all my homies hate the square cube law
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This would actually be a neat show. A solid time waster
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I wholeheartedly agree.
I dig isekai /slice of life / crafting shows and this would be right up my alley.
I think Log Horizon built steam powered engines with a fire breathing frog or something. It was a small cut but I saw the possibilities.
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But they’re in the body of a five year old, so now the entire village is scared of them.
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as they should be.
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Pffft. Magic does crazy things to the square-cube law, but it does crazy things to the rocket equation. ∆v? Yeah, I've got some in this spellbook
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pretty sure all the mecha shit in legend of khorra is because some engie got isekaid and nobody talked about it.
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How does levitation remove that constraint? It is still exactly the same?
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You can make something levitate, removing the need for it to be supported.
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The whole issue with that is not only about weight, that hardly scratches the surface. Heat transfer, friction, radiation, mass transfer, etc. all get limited by this in some way and are FAR more consequential than weight alone.
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Though that wouldn't help for many biological organisms, such as arthropods, where it's about Surface Area vs. Volume in diffusion. The oxygen diffusion rate gets too low without higher O2 concentrations
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I think essentially everything affected would weigh less so you could build bigger stuff using less power to move and less support to hold stuff in place though if you wanted to make mechs I wonder if impacts would still have the same affect as it everything weighed more
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I understand now that TO exclusively was thinking about weight, while that is only one of many things that are limited by the surface to volume scaling.
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Delvers LLC has some aspects of this, with one of the characters making guns that accelerate projectiles via magic.
Also The Wraith's Haunt series features a "system" that polices the use of magic/foreign technology and erases anyone who goes too far with either.
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World's finest assassin gets reincarnated as an aristocrat is really good about that first point as well.
And creature girls: a hands on field study (or something like that) is really neat for that second point. It also discusses a lot of biology and politics, although the political discussion is dogshit. Its also super fucked up and basically porn.
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Yeah there is another where this dude made guns and used lightning magic to turn them into rail guns. OP as hell.
Arifureta I think. He goes wild after getting some creation magic and made motorcycles and a replacement mech arm.
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Reminds me of the grimnior series where they have "heavies" that affect gravity and with the help of that same magic in the form of glyphs they make a giant mech suit called the nishimura super gakutensoku
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Fuck the square cube law. If there is any magic that can freeze things / make things cold, the second law of thermodynamics is void, and by extension the other two are as well.
Perpetual motion machines? Hell yeah. Infinite energy? Hell yeah. Being able to create negative energy by decreasing entropy thus being able to create antigravity and simulate negative mass? Hell yeah
If you get negative mass (we'll, negative energy density) you get a working Alcubierre drive. Instant FTL.
The magic probably takes the energy from somewhere else
Mana/chi/whatever
That still is a violation of entropy because you’ve increased the “order” of energy in the universe as a whole, which is not possible.
If you can violate entropy, one can create a more than perfect Carnot Engine (or in general just a heat engine with efficiency greater than 1) which would allow you to generate an infinite amount of energy in the form of mechanical motion.
Unless in creating/gaining “mana” one is accelerating the entropic decay of the universe as a whole equal to or greater than the amount of entropy reversed locally (eg spells must produce heat and be inefficient at converting mana energy into work), magic would violate thermodynamics and allow for infinite energy creation.
Is there an excel sheet of everything possible like that?
So if you can enchant a mana stone to hold a spell to maintain the cold then another stone to gather ambient mana to keep it going you can have infinate spell generation and then you've got your foundation all set.