Timeline for How will forced memory loss work?
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| Oct 28, 2019 at 21:29 | comment | added | Nass King | @AlexP if that it is it, then to answer your previous question, yes, I'm fine with voilating the thermodynamics then | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 18:05 | comment | added | AlexP | "What thermodynamics did I violate?" The part where destruction is seamlessly reversed. This part moves the system from a higher entropy state to a lower entropy state; this is notoriously not allowed, unless free energy ("free" in the thermodynamic sense, that is, energy which is available to do work, not in the sense of costless) is consumed from somewhere. And then that energy will be degraded and will have to be dissipated away, etc. In the end, once a glass pane is shattered into small pieces, putting is back together is not at all a trivial exercise, and may be seen as a miracle. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:44 | answer | added | AndyD273 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:42 | answer | added | Joe Bloggs | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:40 | comment | added | Nass King | @Frostfyre done | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:40 | history | edited | Nass King | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | Frostfyre | If you edit to remove the second question, I will retract my close vote. (Side note: you can check out the tour or our site culture, if you haven't already.) | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | Nass King | @Frostfyre Do I get to keep the question open if I edit out the 2nd question? I'm fairly new here so I'm not super familiar with the rules. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 17:18 | comment | added | Frostfyre | I'm voting to close this question on two grounds: 1) It's asking multiple questions at once; 2) The second of those questions is impossibly large. I originally stated I could think of two off-hand; shortly after, someone else posted a third in comments and I devised a fourth after that. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:46 | comment | added | Nass King | @AlexP Could you be a bit more clearer? I'm not a physics whiz so I'm a bit lost here. What thermodynamics did I voilate? | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:44 | comment | added | AlexP | Just to make it clear: you are perfectly fine with the blatant violation of thermodynamics and your concern is with people forgetting stuff? | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:44 | comment | added | Nass King | @Alexander That does sound legit. I'll explore that further . | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:41 | comment | added | Alexander | So this indeed is a "loophole", in the sense that it's not explainable by people's science. Of course the old lady could have gotten a bruise in the process, and your hero would be blamed for hurting the old lady :) | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:39 | comment | added | Nass King | @Alexander The first catch excluded "Living organisms", which really means that if the old man died, he's dead. It appears that the only way to avoid that is for me to not write it at all. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:35 | comment | added | Alexander | If he saves the old lady from the vehicle, but did not save an old man crushed by the same vehicle just a moment before, how would it play out? There's no indication of an incident, but an old man is somehow dead? | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:26 | comment | added | Nass King | @Frostfyre what are the two you can think of? Also, what is "realistic memory loss inquiry"? | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:23 | comment | added | Frostfyre | "Are there any loopholes?" is a really broad topic. Off-hand, I can think of two. I'm sure there are more. You may want to limit this to just the realistic memory loss inquiry. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:20 | comment | added | Nass King | @Frostfyre yep. Exactly how I would want to understand. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | Frostfyre | "How will this forced memory loss work?" <-- Do you mean in a way other than: "It works because I said so; it's a rule of my world?" | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:14 | comment | added | Nass King | @JoeBloggs yes. I have considered video cameras, but since it's a gag comics, I've meant to address that in the very first chapter where someone has a recording on their phone of an event that happened a couple of hours ago. He shows it to his friends and they call it fake cuz the buildings that got blown up still stand and there's no logical way to them how they could have gotten fixed in just an hour or so. They just laugh it off and walk away, and the guy who apparently recorded it doesn't remember how it got there so he deleted it and just shurgs it off.. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | Hmm... some kind of neurological reaction to the use of his powers might make sense, as long as it didn’t cause seziures and/or death in those affected. Plus video cameras exist, Unless they’re covered by the ‘fixed’ rule.. | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 15:56 | history | asked | Nass King | CC BY-SA 4.0 |