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Brandon Sanderson / Re: use of steelpulling
« on: March 11, 2008, 07:55:51 PM »
darxbane, learn some physics....
You pull on something, it accelerates in the ay that it is pulled, say you have it going at 10 metres per second, and then start pulling it from a different direction, it's not going to instantly turn round, it's course will slowly change, this is how the moon orbits the earth, it had an initial velocity, but the earth keep s pulling it in with gravity, that is the only significant force on the moon and it maintains it's orbit, the earth's gravity does not turn on and off.(same with the earth going round the sun, or a ball being spun on a string), anyway, Kelsier did do something like this with a soldier when he was fighting the inquisitor. He pulled on the soldier and while pulling moved himself to the side so that the soldier spun round him to fly off and hit something else.
You pull on something, it accelerates in the ay that it is pulled, say you have it going at 10 metres per second, and then start pulling it from a different direction, it's not going to instantly turn round, it's course will slowly change, this is how the moon orbits the earth, it had an initial velocity, but the earth keep s pulling it in with gravity, that is the only significant force on the moon and it maintains it's orbit, the earth's gravity does not turn on and off.(same with the earth going round the sun, or a ball being spun on a string), anyway, Kelsier did do something like this with a soldier when he was fighting the inquisitor. He pulled on the soldier and while pulling moved himself to the side so that the soldier spun round him to fly off and hit something else.