Here's a question about feruchemistry: what's stopping a feruchemist from storing an absolute massive amount of trait in massively small moment of time? What stops a pewter feruchemist from becoming infinitely weak for an infinitely small amount of time and then returning to normal the next instant? Since the instant of time is just as small as the strength is large, it probably wouldn't have an impact, right, because the infinities would probably cancel each other out? But since some infinities are larger than others (math!), what if a larger infinite amount of strength is stored in a comparatively smaller infinitely small period of time (a period of time so small that it wouldn't have a lasting effect on the body; the weak moment would be "skipped" over)? Could that lead to an infinite amount of strength? Are there limits on how full a metalmind can be?
The other thought that I had was processing speed and the mental control it would take to initiate the storing in an infinitely small amount of time since humans are limited by mental speed, so this probably wouldn't work with just a pewter feruchemist. So what if a zinc (mental speed) + pewter feruchemist stored so much mental processing that they had the mental capacity to do this? Is this theoretically possible?
I guess the other issue would be that the zinc feruchemist wouldn't be able to store the infinite amount of mental speed required to process an infinitely small period of time in the first place. But in theory, could this work on a smaller scale if the feruchemist stored enough mental power to complete this process on some level? As the mental processing approaches infinity?
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Here's a question about feruchemistry: what's stopping a feruchemist from storing an absolute massive amount of trait in massively small moment of time? What stops a pewter feruchemist from becoming infinitely weak for an infinitely small amount of time and then returning to normal the next instant? Since the instant of time is just as small as the strength is large, it probably wouldn't have an impact, right, because the infinities would probably cancel each other out? But since some infinities are larger than others (math!), what if a larger infinite amount of strength is stored in a comparatively smaller infinitely small period of time (a period of time so small that it wouldn't have a lasting effect on the body; the weak moment would be "skipped" over)? Could that lead to an infinite amount of strength? Are there limits on how full a metalmind can be?
The other thought that I had was processing speed and the mental control it would take to initiate the storing in an infinitely small amount of time since humans are limited by mental speed, so this probably wouldn't work with just a pewter feruchemist. So what if a zinc (mental speed) + pewter feruchemist stored so much mental processing that they had the mental capacity to do this? Is this theoretically possible?
I guess the other issue would be that the zinc feruchemist wouldn't be able to store the infinite amount of mental speed required to process an infinitely small period of time in the first place. But in theory, could this work on a smaller scale if the feruchemist stored enough mental power to complete this process on some level? As the mental processing approaches infinity?
Thoughts?
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