Adamantium or Nth Metal?

[Silicon Surfer]

Inertron, absorbium or zuunium

 

[Danger Mouse]

The Star Wars freak in me is dying to know if a lightsaber can cut through any of them.

 

[Ultra-Herald9]

Nothing is more serious than marshmallow.

Sig worthy.

 

[Silicon Surfer]

Inertron, Adamantium, or Absorbium should easily stop a lightsaber and in the case of Absorbium the lightsaber wouldn't even turn on. The others who knows.

 

[WompuM]

No idea about the lightsaber. Scientifically speaking, wouldnt there have to be some sort of internal thin metal pole in the blade of a lightsaber. Like, a very strong electromagnet that keeps the light in place. Because why else would two lightsabers hit each other?

 

[The Leaguer]

Sig worthy.

Everything I say is sig-worthy.

 

[The Question]

No idea about the lightsaber. Scientifically speaking, wouldnt there have to be some sort of internal thin metal pole in the blade of a lightsaber. Like, a very strong electromagnet that keeps the light in place. Because why else would two lightsabers hit each other?

1) That really doen't have anything to do with the topic at hand.

2) Could be that the sabers have electromagnetic feilds around them that both give them more cutting power and make them semi-solid.

 

[The Question]

Strong Force, Week force, Electromagnetism, and Gravity?

Yes. Magic certainly seems to include the manipulation of these forces.

 

[WompuM]

I like the way you think Q.

 

[kytrigger]

How good is Uru compared to all the metals mentioned?

 

[kiuju2k]

welp if i wanted to knock the hell out of CM nth metal would be my choice.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Nth Metal.

The Star Wars freak in me is dying to know if a lightsaber can cut through any of them.

Doubtful,the lightsaber is simply a laser beam sword.These metals are more complex than that.

 

[WompuM]

It's too bad we are mostly comic nerds here. We need to rent a hardcore Star Wars nerd to tell us the anatomy of a lightsaber because i'm pretty sure you saying "is simply a laser beam sword" is the equivilant of someone saying that Spider-Man is DC. ya' know?

 

[Silicon Surfer]

There was one explanation I read years ago that said that a lightsabers blade was a laser that was curved back around on itself by a field surrounding the blade.

 

[droogiedroogie2]

No idea about the lightsaber. Scientifically speaking, wouldnt there have to be some sort of internal thin metal pole in the blade of a lightsaber. Like, a very strong electromagnet that keeps the light in place. Because why else would two lightsabers hit each other?

Hard light or something? I don't much concern myself with the scientific viability of fictional universes, instead preferring to assume that fictional universes have their own scientific laws.

 

[drastic_quench]

How good is Uru compared to all the metals mentioned?

By itself it's just a rock-like metal. Nothing too special - except that it has a capacity to be uber-enchanted.

 

[kytrigger]

By itself it's just a rock-like metal. Nothing too special - except that it has a capacity to be uber-enchanted.

I see. All i knew of it was that it is what Mjolinor's made out of.

 

[Silicon Surfer]

I think that Uru is in roughly the same class as adamantium in hardness and durability. Thors hammer has damaged adamantium in spite of the fact that no description I have ever seen says that it has an indestructibility enchantment.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

However, when used propery, Nth Metal can be used as a means of manipulating the four basic forces of the universe. It could be argued that magic encompases the four forces, and as such can be manipulated by Nth Metal.

Actually, if magic were to exist as magic magic, it would gravitate outside of those four forces, and probably be like a gluon to a gluon.

 

[Smallville93]

Admantium's common, but Nth metal is from a far different race, that without a doubt puts Nth at the top, besides you have more uses for Nth metal (repelling magic and so on) and Admantium can melt which is a weakness

 

[Guyverjay]

Adamantium shouldn't melt

 

[Silicon Surfer]

Sufficient amounts of heat will destroy adamantium but its insanely hard to do. The Human Torch has destroyed adamantium in large quantities but I don't know of anyone else who has done it. Adamatium is not indestructible but it is so durable that for most people, even fairly powerful people, it might as well be.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

I think only certain types of adamantium do not melt.

 

[The Question]

Actually, if magic were to exist as magic magic, it would gravitate outside of those four forces, and probably be like a gluon to a gluon.

I don't see why. Magic is a manipulation of the natural laws of physics that differs from traditional sciences. That doesn't mean it should be completely seperate from the natural workings of the universe.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

I don't see why. Magic is a manipulation of the natural laws of physics that differs from traditional sciences. That doesn't mean it should be completely seperate from the natural workings of the universe.

Because if you manipulate things such as photons and such, it will encase a mass chain reaction that usually dwelves in breaking down matter.

Like let's say I just decided to rip half the gluons out of your body. You'd explode (possibly), but at least you'd fall apart because your atoms could not stick together anymore. (But most likely, your gluons would collide, and you'd explode, since I just generated all sorts of antimatter explosions that would break down the atoms before you.)

Or photons. Let's say that I just directed all sorts of photons around. That yields a few things. Mainly total black spots you're looking at, because I just basically overrode the powerful forces of planetary gravity with little to no energy (which is a feat against science all it's own.) We can bend some light, but not most or all of it. Much less with little to no energy.

Vector bosons. I guess... I wouldn't really know how to explain it. You can't move other elementary particles with words, so this one you can't either maybe?

Gravitons. Generally considered pure theoretical, the idea behind the graviton would basically state that you can rip elementary particles from mass and just do with them what you please.

Nuclear weapons overriding the matter around them with tons of energy couldn't accomplish these tasks. I just somehow doubt saying, "By the Vishanti" could I accomplish the same thing through scientific means, since they would also have to obey the laws of science to operate within science.

"But what if it's a trans-dimensional thing?" Thought of that already.

Introducing THAT much energy to the universe has two flaws.

One, you'd have to open a hole from one universe to the next, and nobody knows what that would do, but many believe that it would cause one universe to pour into the next, or both, and that would probably cause all time and space to just rip itself apart.

Two, you'd STILL be introducing so much energy, that you'd probably ignite the atmosphere from all the heat being generated through chemical, and sub atomic reactions. It's why causing fission fusion fission reactions generates heat that can be HOTTER than the core of the sun.

Basically, just because it differs a little bit, doesn't mean it cannot follow any other laws it doesn't want to. That's why it's called magic, because it doesn't have to follow laws. Chemistry and Biology have to follow Physics, after all.