Timeline for What could people notice about someone who is two times as dense as a regular person?
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| Jun 14, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | SJuan76 | @nasch That is a good point. Once at normal temperature, you only need additional energy to compensate the energy lost through the body surface. And since the body surface does not change, they would not need extra energy to keep their body temperature. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | nasch | Would heating a denser body require more energy? I guess you would have to decide if they have a higher specific heat. | |
| Jun 11, 2018 at 14:20 | comment | added | pabouk - Ukraine stay strong | It is also possible that to lessen their energy spending needed to overcome their own inertia they will move slower (they will accelerate and decelerate their body parts less during movements). | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 18:36 | comment | added | Aethenosity | @JeopardyTempest but then someone would have to be with them for every meal to detect it. Simply eating more at dinner could easily be explained away by saying "I missed lunch". So hiding one big meal a day seems like it would be important to hide the increased density. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | JeopardyTempest | @gnasher729 That seems to be about what the calorie calculator suggests indeed. So it'd be like eating an extra meal or an an extra helping at dinner/breakfast or such. Might well be hard to distinguish for a teenager, but for the an older adult might be more noticeable that they're pretty hungry people? | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 11:44 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I think the calorie intake wouldn't increase too much, most of your calories are spent on heating your body. Maybe 40% increase. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 11:43 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @arp I am the OP :-) And it's magic. These people are magicians, and they are able to manipulate various forces of physics including gravity, density, and momentum and such, but they cannot manipulate themselves, and their increased mass is simply a side-effect of having those powers. That's all I want to leave it at for now. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 7:58 | comment | added | arp | The OP hasn't enlightened us as to how it is that these people have double density. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 7:55 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @arp Even though the source of the extra weight is magic, it still takes energy to move that weight. So yep, they'd be big eaters. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 4:49 | comment | added | arp | I was more thinking that since there is no plausible physical reason for the extra density, it's magical substance and as such needs to be fed with magical energy. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 3:55 | comment | added | Morgen | @arp why would you want to? This brings up "what if"s that can help round out your world. How do the regulars react to this? Are they careful not to be seen over indulging in food, so as not to be mistaken for (or simply similar to) mages? How do the mages hide how much additional food they need to eat? How do they pay for it all? | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 2:18 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @arp you can handwave any and all effects from all the answers. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 0:22 | history | edited | JeopardyTempest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2018 at 0:14 | comment | added | arp | You can handwave that away with magical energy. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 0:05 | history | answered | JeopardyTempest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |