Well said.wattashame wrote:I like this part " You manipulate matter, which requires enormous amounts of energy. We manipulate energy, which requires none. "
To really get it, you need to know a bit about atoms and the structure of it. Once you know that the atom is mostly empty and it's made of invisible stuff like electric current and a magnetic field then suddenly, matter doesn't seem that hard to reshape.
When I was a kid I have heard of the weird "Philadelphia Experiment" with Einstein's research back in the 2nd World War where they attempted to make a huge warship disappear by loading it with many super powerful electromagnetic field generators.
The weird thing about this story is that when their turned on those massive EM field, it made the boat disappear and even people on it too but when they turned off the generators, people were melted into the ship.
At the time I laughed at it thinking that this was crazy stuff but now that I know that massive EM fields can literally change the structure of atoms, I can clearly believe that story today. I'm not sure if it really happened but the logic is there.
It's like placing a penny on top of an ice cube and introducing lots of energy which makes the structure of matter change from ice to water and then when you freeze it back you can believe that when the ice restarted to freeze that the penny could have water above it now and that once frozen the penny could now be stuck in the middle of the ice cube.
So the atoms of the boat and the people where all "melted" when the EM fields were turned on but when they turned it all off it was like freezing the melted atoms back to solid again so having humans melted in the boat would make sense.
Weird but totally possible scientifically speaking.
Merlin
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