Re: Blue Fields

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

Damn, I copied you again.

But it's so hard not to when you're right.


Jevan

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Steve Ames wrote:

> > > Everything is effected by gravity.  Make no mistake.  Photons...  if all
> > > magic is is just another form of energy, then it is effected by gravity in
> > > some way or another.
> > > 
> >
> > But how can something nontemporal be affected by something temporal 
> > (gravity)?  Granted, when you look at Newton's law of gravity, there is 
> > no appearnt "time" term but a force is the _time_ derivative of the 
> > change in momentum.  So does that mean that it just has the same movement 
> > that it did at the time of blue feilding?  
> 
> Gotta go with BJ on this. Most physics has 'time' factored into it. If
> something steps out of time it really isn't affected by much. Gravity
> is measured in terms of time. Also photons have mass. I'd agree that
> "magic" energy might be affected by gravity, but the contents of a 
> blue field is not. The field itself? Maybe. You can revocate it so it
> can still can be affected by magical energy and hence, possibly,
> gravity as well. *sigh* Tricky stuff.
> 
> Unless blue fields can't be revocated :) And are invisible.
> 
> 					-Steve
>