Elfthreads!

[Timepoof]

People are summoning, presumably.

[DanielH]

Nowhere is paused except Beach aand Hazel because everywhere has actice circles.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

Dragon pit! I love Tyelcormos so much.

[Kappa]

theodore is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DanielH]

"But falling's just acceleration!"

Either he doesn’t know how true this is, or he and/or his father invented general relativity. Both are plausible.

[lintamande]

Finis makes a living doing broomstick design and explains lots of physics to his kids but he did not invent general relativity. Human Fëanors have a remarkable-but-not-Einstein-level intellectual profile and in general will not come up with anything more than ~50 years ahead of their time.

[DanielH]

Lintamande, have you read Unsong? What would Sauron and Melkor think about the description of Hell’s psychological torture in Interlude י, part II (the Broadcast)? Specifically how they both use fake escapes for wildly different purposes.

[jalapeno_dude]

"But falling's just acceleration!"

Either he doesn’t know how true this is, or he and/or his father invented general relativity. Both are plausible.

I appreciate the point you're trying to make, but Newton already knew both that acceleration (technically, change in momentum) indicates the influence of a force and that the force due to gravity acted as an inverse square law. So I don't think this is anachronistic at all.

(Plus in GR, it's actually *not* falling, i.e. not following a geodesic, that requires acceleration. In Newtonian gravity you don't fall through the ground because the force due to gravity is balanced by the force of the ground pushing up on you; in GR if you didn't feel a force you'd be smoothly falling towards the center of the earth and it's only because a net force is acting on you that you don't.)

[Nemo]

"Prelexate." Swoop-shiver-pull-back. "It's not very common, there aren't really many problems best solved by shrinking all metal objects in an area for half a second - you can seriously injure anyone wearing rings and possibly kill people with the wrong kind of necklace but, like, in circumstances under which that'd be justified there are things that are more reliable and better targeted -"

I'm choosing to interpret this as a reference to/spoiler for a different story, translated into 1800-speak for materials science reasons.

[DanielH]

Maybe I’m being uncreative but what is the version with post-1800s materials science?