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Am I the only one a bit annoyed that
1. Andres carbon-copied a magic school.
2. Andres is assuming things about that magic school to make it over powered again?
The fact that he is basing all his things around it just makes it even more irritating.
Plasmamancy: The magical manipulation of all things plasma. Can be used for fire, lightning, and "energy" attacks.
This is the description of "Plasma" given, which means it fits in with what KJP said happens.
The problem here is that the beams should not have passed through each-other. They're not laser beams which have no mass - they're plasma beams which do. Skipping to the part of the video where it's relevant, see here why they would've started pushing against each-other.
What? Gas has mass. If you where throwing balls of gas at each other, they would mostly just pass through each other. Assuming there aren't "Steller-Core" density plasma (Which would kill the user, as humans ain't fireproof) we are looking at 10^7m^-3 particles per cubic meter. In fact, plasma is basically ionized gas, two plasma balls would just pass through each other in the same way gas does, if you ignore field interactions.
I looked at the video, and it isn't exactly a scholarly source. The balls aren't pushing against each other, the suns aren't pushing against each other, he never gave a single plausible example of plasma pushing plasma. From what I can tell Plasma still follows the same kinetic molecular theory that gas does. The
links suggest that there there isn't a lot different from gasses about their makeup. (Nasa text link on a Dawn-project thing).
Basically, the fact that Plasma has mass is irrelevant. The only interactions they could have with each other would involve their various non-contact forces, which would
not just hit against each other like it does in DBZ, especially if they are traveling at any decent speed.
Why would a plague of mosquitoes be a problem for Humans? They all have affinity towards Plasmamancy, meaning they can all just create a bit of fire to scare off the mosquitoes.
1. Overestimating magic's power
2. Human's don't notice every mosquito
3. As these aren't Earth's mosquitos, they would instead learn that fire means food instead of fear. If anything, they would be attracted to it rather than running away.
First of all, the existence of plasmamancy itself means that the general populace would know of plasma and what it is. They'll know how its electrons are separate from its atoms which means they'll also know about atoms, atomic structure, and matter in general. With their knowledge on electrons and plasmamancy-created lightning, they'll know about electricity which they'll test out on various materials. Finally, this will in turn grant them significantly easier access towards electronics and electricity.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO BASES for that. From their perspective, its "I'm shooting a fireball!". Nothing more. They do not understand the smaller things about it. They don't understand how it works yet. They don't understand how plasma works. They don't even understand how magic works. And neither does their God, apparently.
Why
would they know how all these things work?
Since Humans are technically able to make lightning with enough magical study, power plants could definitely be a thing relatively early on.
Like I said before:
1.
Modern humans don't have this technology yet, to turn lightning directly into electricity, so there is no reason these humans would be able to.
2. Human's aren't fireproof. Or electric proof.
Large amounts of heat can be produced by plasmamancy, meaning that certain metals will be easier to produce.
Humans. Aren't. Fireproof. If they get something hot enough to produce any metal that requirs intense heat, it will kill them if they try to make it in an iron forge.
"...and at high temperatures, plasma becomes thicker, more viscous, to the level that it can physically be pushed. That's why everyone from Frieza to Buu can try to stop these things [(Kamehameha and other energy attacks)] with their hands. It's also how in that earlier example, Gohan's wave [(the wave being the Kamehameha)] can push Cell's back into the sky; it's a denser plasma beam able to overcome the momentum of his attack. It's also how Goku is able to form a ki shield; it's the same plasma shield technology that the company Boeing has just patented."
Nope, just no. Boeing's "plasma shield" is a way to make the air around the plane denser to prevent
explosion's shock wave. Not other plasma. Basically, shock waves are a bit like sound waves, in that they are energy quickly traveling through air. By making that air more dense, they hope to block or divert most of the force. It will
not protect against other plasma, if we tried using it. To put it this way, imagine that the air is a keyboard and the force is a pianist. The pianist can only hit a certain number of keys before getting tired. If the keyboard only has 10 keys, he can play them all easily. If you put 100 keys on the keyboard, the piano player has trouble hitting them all without getting tired.
It has nothing to do with plasma being able to be thrown, and while it is a bit more dense then air, it isn't to the point it can physically hit into other particles reliably.
"Would one plasma beam be able to push against another? Well, yes! In real life it's difficult to find examples that are nearly that spectacular or focused but putting two plasma balls together and watching their beams strike each-other, you see them pushing against one-another..."
They
aren't pushing on each other. Certainly not in the way Andres is describing. In the second one, he is putting two tesla coils next to each other and watching them interact. If you pay attention, they are actually
pulling on each other.
Actually, it is based on natural laws. The video I linked to is explaining how Dragon Ball Z works in terms of real world physics. In DBZ, those energy attacks aren't mentioned as being plasma - they're only known as "energy" attacks. The video guy simply explained how the attacks would work from an RL standpoint. Plasmamancy follows natural law. If it followed DBZ law, it would have nothing to do with plasma.
No, no he didn't. He just tossed around a bunch of terms and pretended that they did. It
really isn't worth your time, KJP.
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