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What Stars Do I Need to Make a Railgun?
Harness the power of a Star
Nuclear Fusion
Intense Heat
Radiation
28 times Gravity
Now let's compare the suns Magnetic strength - it's twice the earths, so about 0.0001 teslas. A Sunspot is much ...
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Advice/Feedback on building a working Ocean Current model for my fictional world
There are too many currents on this very small scale map. In reality I would expect that the system major surface currents would be much simpler.
The major gyres ought to be clockwise in the northern ...
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How can I make the lowest plane of existence in my novel relevant and important?
School
There is too much power in the other planes. Wise souls descend to learn where doing things is difficult. Once you master how to do where it's difficult, you can use it much more effectively ...
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How can I make the lowest plane of existence in my novel relevant and important?
Horizontal progression
First, I need to explain some definitions. In games you have two main ways of progressing in power, especially when you speak player level :
Progressing vertically. When you ...
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How can I make the lowest plane of existence in my novel relevant and important?
The higher planes are everlasting only because of the lower planes
Lower planes spawn in at time to time and materials isekai up to higher planes. This allows them to sustain themselves and keep on ...
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How can I make the lowest plane of existence in my novel relevant and important?
Natural Resources
People keep coming back to the lower planes, because the lower planes are full of raw materials that everyone wants.
They have coal, oil, gems, ore, arable land, forests for lumber. ...
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How can I make the lowest plane of existence in my novel relevant and important?
A quick look at most of the religious books can help for an inspiration to answer your question: the worldly realm, so to call it, it is the lowest one, inhabited by these fallible and corruptible ...
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What kind of magic could people able to manipulate the 4th dimension do?
A 4D creature interacting with 3D creatures could do about as much as we could do if we were to intersct with 2D beings.
Now there may be some that say that we need at least three spatial dimensions ...
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What's the smallest change to physics required to allow magic?
Without overthinking this the answer is derived simply by definitions of the problem
Reading answers pretty carefully I haven't seen anyone directly go into the definitions of physics or magic for ...
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
You can't accurately predict the future, so you learn from past mistakes
Disaster Avoidance Licence.
Every student that wants to learn new magic must obtain a Disaster Avoidance Licence (DAL).
They ...
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
Nothing much. They wouldn’t have the clearance.
The student would likely be shown the door, maybe put on a watch list, maaaybe given an ankle monitor.
After all, you say that the nuclear level magic ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
would it be reasonable to suppose that rational realm militaries would be sufficiently interested in magic to have made the capabilities of magic a subject of study in their military academies
Yes.
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
I don't think this is so problematic.
This school expects an extremely high level of perfection and morality. Even a slight deviation would be ground for being expelled.
If you are suspected of ...
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
The most widely palatable solution will be to do nothing and accept magic casualties as a society. This scenario parallels gun control in the US - there are tools that can be used to identify and flag ...
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
There is a simple solution. Every magic user is given an object which signifies their entrance into the magical community when they arrive at a school. These tokens are magically bound to the ...
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
Have your university frame potential "monster students" for, say, academic misconduct, then expel them and strip them of their magical powers. This not only stops the next Dark Lord in their ...
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Dealing ethically with future human monsters
Unseen University
After the last big magical war, the various mages of the world got together and formed institutions of magical higher learning to replace apprenticeships. In order to become anything ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
I don't think so. It doesn't make much sense in described settings.
West Point prepares new officers. Students prepare to become officers in conventional army. They are not teaching each other, ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
We already do
Any military learns much about both the enemy and their friends. Knowing your own forces, your friendly forces and any enemy forces helps with making effective strategies. This is why ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
We've had this since civilisation started.
Many Religions have militarised throughout history. We even have some now. There is no real difference except the magic is real. Complete with schools, ...
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Is There Any Reason for a High Fantasy civilization to use Stable Higher-Generation Matter
Long term storage of fissile materials
Obviously, your mages are going to be using thier powers to kickstart the atomic age... but the problem with nuclear anything is that it tends to involve leaving ...
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Could Mages which can control London Dispersion Meaningfully Control the Air
The ability to create intermolecular bonds could be extremely powerful if the bond is strong enough. The magic could potentially create a strong temporary bond which fades to normal levels when the ...
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Is There Any Reason for a High Fantasy civilization to use Stable Higher-Generation Matter
This question is very close to a hypothetical “What would happen if…”. What type of world are you trying to create? Are you telling a story? Is this particular magic needed to tell that story or make ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
Yes
The magic system you describe is exceedingly powerful and I would estimate the impact of an arch magus to be much higher than the ownership of a nuclear weapon. The scrying ability alone could ...
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Is it reasonable that magic would become a subject and magi would become students in military academies in a world with rediscovered magic?
Yes
I see two possible reasons why the military would accept magic:
This reason is not related to military: The human civilization is keen enough to learn and master any possible way to continue ...
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