Timeline for Logical/Scientific Explanation for Umbrakinesis?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
10 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2022 at 13:28 | comment | added | user2962533 | Love your answer, and it sparks an idea: The general consensus is that Umbrakinetics control the darkness itself - you turn that idea on its head and say that it is the light that's being controlled (not the first instance of a power being misunderstood in its own universe). That has MAJOR repercussions, since now an Umbrakinetic locked in a "completely" dark room will find themselves surprisingly unable to do anything! Also, it could be any manipulation that would render photons unseen by us! Converting all frequencies outside of our range of vision, pulling them all in, etc... | |
| Sep 4, 2022 at 22:30 | comment | added | JBH | @MarkMorganLloyd The amount of mass created is irrelevant. The Q only asks how to scientifically rationalize the superhero ability - not its consequences. In the OP's fictional world wherein superheros reside, it can be any amount wanted. However, you make a wonderful point about what the converted matter could be, since to the best of our understanding, it can be any matter. An author could have a ton of fun with that. Statistically, it's likely to be hydrogen... or it could be the ripe-for-worldbuilding element astatine. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | The amount of mass created is somewhat insubstantial: something around 0.75g of converted mass accounted for the 20 kt blast at Hiroshima, so neutralising any realistic amount of light (by creation of an appropriate number of antiphotons) will result in the creation of only a tiny amount of matter. Of course, the nature of that matter might be interesting... inconvenient... embarrassing... | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 5:39 | vote | accept | PlanetJuice | ||
| Sep 3, 2022 at 5:38 | vote | accept | PlanetJuice | ||
| Sep 3, 2022 at 5:39 | |||||
| Sep 2, 2022 at 18:39 | comment | added | No Name | Similarly, a cryokinetic is a pyrokinetic who likes cold rooms | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 15:09 | history | edited | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited body
|
| Sep 2, 2022 at 14:17 | comment | added | JBH | @PlanetJuice It must, it's the light that's being manipulated. Pour the water out of that glass... are you manipulating the absence of water, or the water? Yeah... the water. | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 14:14 | comment | added | PlanetJuice | I didn't think of it like that. That does make sense. Since light does have force in a sense, and converting that into 'darkness'... it would make it plausible and how the darkness can manifest in natural daylight. I guess this would be considered a variation of photokinesis? | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 6:52 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |