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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Alloy of Law Excerpt (Updated with Ch3)
« on: August 14, 2011, 06:14:19 AM »I see two possibilities with pulling an item crossing a speed bubble, both of which say (almost) nothing happens.
1. It cannot happen, the bubble warps itself to either include or exclude any discrete item. This could have the side effect of deflecting and changing the speed of moving objects, like bullets.
2. The large change in momentum would increase the amount of force needed to move the table (that sticks out of a Bendalloy bubble). I think it would be about 100x as hard (assuming 100x speedup of time) to accelerate an outside object (or part of one) from inside of the bubble as outside of it, because it would be moving that much faster in the outside world. most objects are not that strong, so they would break at the edge of the bubble.
I'm not sure about either of these ideas, especially with such limited information to go off of, but I think #2 is better at least.
Yeah, I agree with #2; it makes a certain amount of logical sense. And there's the fact that Wayne has enclosed both himself and Wax in a bubble while they were sitting on a couch, which would seem to be an awkward position to maneuver a bubble around without intersecting the couch or one of its occupants. As an aside, did he say if the bubbles have to be perfectly spherical?