• youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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    2 months ago

    So I don’t risk fucking up thermodynamics next time I drop acid and making atoms stop being a thing.

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      2 months ago

      I mean I’ve seen myself “functioning” when I’m a tiny bit high. No way I’m trusting myself with that much power. “Oops, instead of teleporting those guys on the surface, I halfway burried them”

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      2 months ago

      If your shapeshifting doesn’t break thermodynamics, then you’re not able to shapeshift into anything smaller or larger than yourself.

      (Though, perhaps, you could stretch it a little by ‘cheating’ it – become larger by shifting into a hollow shape filled with air, become smaller by shifting into a shape filled with very dense material. But there are limits to that – too big, and you’ll float away like a balloon; too small and the ground/floor beneath you won’t be able to withstand the pressure, so you’ll sink down into it – and you’ll never be able to change your overall weight/mass, which might compromise your disguise in some situations.)

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        Simple. When you shapeshift, your extra mass gets shunted into Z-space. When you need extra mass, mass is borrowed from other masses in Z-space.