Physics, YAY!

So, I was just reading up on a little law of physics that totally puts a damper on macrophilia in general.

It's called the square-cube law. For more information, this is a good site.

As to Felaryans, I'm working on explanations. For most creatures, it's because they're naturally large, and thus have different skeletal structures. However, they'd still be vulnerable to falling, like elephants... possibly a strategy for humans to make use of?

For fairies, I'm probably gonna pull out the idea that since their size-changing is based on dimensional stretching rather than molecular change, it's sort of a loophole in physics. NOT AN EXCEPTION. Physics has no exceptions. You hear me? None. Just complicated laws that can be worked around using other laws.

Aaaaand, for those of you who are like "why can't he just use the idea of MAGIC, for God's sake", I'd simply like to say that if one thing is magical and unexplainable, that means laws have been broken, which violates other connecting laws, and then all Hell breaks loose. Okay?

Loopholes are your friends.

Preeeeeecisely.

Personally, I always assumed that all giant humanoid predators are related to fairies and maintain their own personal aura that dictates the way the laws of physics affect them.

Physics. They never quite mix with fantasy.

Sometimes, I prefer to slightly beeeend them for storytelling, at least. Though they are important to keep it at least believable.

Pendragon wrote:

Physics. They never quite mix with fantasy.

I pretty much agree ^^

GAH!!!!!!!! Physics make my head hurt alot and i dont really know if i am using it or not but i don't like physics.

The problem with our actual physics won't explain everything in Felarya because it has been shown many time we never find absolute laws of physics each time we had to rewrite the former or developp new laws to explain things we thought impossible.

Personally, while I don't feel one needs to go out of the way to explain physics in a realm, remaining at least somewhat consistent with them helps. I like to have a secure base of faith that if something falls it will continuously accelerate, something can only get so big before it caves in, water can only be made so hot before it turns to vapor, etc.

vegeta002 wrote:

Loopholes are your friends.

So is a multi dimensional / unstable dimensional world. Perhaps there are other dimensions in play all over the place in Felarya where this universe's laws of physics do not totally apply?

Casual readers usually allow their minds to cope with fiction and fantasy when they read it. In fiction, physics don't matter in credibility as long as the basic utilization of it (or omission of it) is consistent, as Malahite mentioned-- this is why it's fiction, after all; it's not real.

Dude, don't you know:





(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)

PrinnyDood wrote:

Dude, don't you know:





(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)

Yeah, let's not jinx any more Neko's. They have things bad with Crisis, but Crisis and Physics?

Physics can be helpful or not. One of the things I discovered while investigating for a character of mine, not a Felaryan character... I mean another character... err... well, this character - the pic is made by a friend -, a half-giantess... Well, as I was saying, while investigating about her I found all this macrophilia fetish and also the square-cube law.

There are some ways to skip it, one of them is talking about skelleton and muscular structures. Bones can be different in some beings, so they can somehow retain their aspect instead of turning into enormous meatballs when they grow. Of course, it's a bit of a license over the whole square-cube law, but it could somehow work. Anyway, physics would still make things difficult for this character, due maybe to being heavier, which would make the character slower, for example, or even having some difficulties in other ways - not breathing well, unless his/her body can adapt itself to the size changes.

It is something fun to play a bit with physics, although it's true that fiction tends to forget about them. Also, I have the same thoughts about fairies and their size-shifting 'magic' playing with dimensions.

PrinnyDood wrote:

Dude, don't you know:





(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)

hahahaha XD

Well, to add laws of physics or omit certain ones due to the idea of a different universe could have some very drastic and unforeseen effects. I prefer to avoid that.

Most fiction writers also tend to avoid drastic and unforeseen effects by ignoring them

PrinnyDood wrote:

Dude, don't you know:





(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)

We must end the discussion quickly! We could be running out of catgirls as we speak!

Pendragon wrote:

We must end the discussion quickly! We could be running out of catgirls as we speak!

The worst thing I see it's when people use physics to explain animes with mecha

Oh Katrika and I stopped believing in physics long ago.
Rotten things were spoiling our fun!

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Pendragon wrote:

The worst thing I see it's when people use physics to explain animes with mecha

In certain regards this is plausible. It helps to have some basis as to just how powerful those crazy laser beams being fired are. The problem is that while in one episode you may see the beam do nothing to a nearby APC and put its yields in megajoules, another episode you may see a lone shot blow apart an armored company and move the yields up into gigajoules. Also, some anime's at least try to follow physics.

OR, we could just assume that my idea was right, like usual. XP

Gregole, that policy is gonna bite you one of these days...

No, one of these days you people taking me seriously when I do that is going to drive me to bite you...

GREGOLE wrote:

No, one of these days you people taking me seriously when I do that is going to drive me to bite you...

Careful you don't go near Anna when you're a biting around. Lest she get "Physical" on you with an oversized monkey wrench. (which she could totally make since she rocks)