Timeline for What would be easy or difficult to do with the power to directly control light?
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| Apr 7, 2018 at 17:46 | comment | added | Frostfyre | Related, possible duplicate: Could a light mage microwave your face? | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 3:16 | answer | added | kingledion | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 0:41 | comment | added | User6257 | @Dubukay I'll be honest and say I don't really know anything about virtual photons. The power is supposed to be emphatically "control over light" and meaningfully distinct from "control over electricity", so I imagine they wouldn't be able to do anything quite like that. I'm not necessarily looking for an "extremely hard science" answer but just kind of trying to read the overall plausibility of these things to figure out which one(s) I want to actually use. | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 0:38 | vote | accept | User6257 | ||
| Apr 6, 2018 at 22:49 | comment | added | JBH | @User6257, this is a well developed first question, but for future reference, please note that multiple-question questions are frequently closed for being "too broad." You're asking four and I'm surprised someone hasn't logged a close vote (but it's a fun question, and we're a bit more forgiving for fun questions). Just to let you know. Please read through our tour and help center when you get a chance. Cheers. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 22:22 | comment | added | Dubukay | I think we need some more limits on this power to provide excellent answers, especially with the science-based tag. Do they have control over virtual photons, and thus all magnetic properties and the things that keep molecules together? Can they alter electromagnetic fields and thus throw lightning bolts? As written right now, it sounds like you've given this person total control over one of the four fundamental forces of nature. Is that what you were imagining? | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 21:20 | answer | added | Josh King | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 20:45 | comment | added | User6257 | Mainly manipulating existing light, but including a small ability to "amplify" it to get a little more or less as might be needed for illusions to show the correct colors. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 20:40 | answer | added | VBartilucci | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 20:28 | history | edited | RonJohn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cleaned up formatting.
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 20:28 | comment | added | Alexander | Is this power limited to manipulating existing light, or it allows its wielder to shoot ray beams like Cyclops? | |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 20:09 | history | asked | User6257 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |