This topic makes me wonder how much time Jim spends thinking about the physics of things and how much energy various spells would take or how much strength would be needed to lift something.

I'd say probably not much

Man's got enough to worry about.. lol

it's like when I crunched the numbers for the black court master in the short story.. if she can do what she did, how the frak did they ever lose??

That's the waste? Holy... Wow. I guess she isn't the Queen of Air and Darkness because she had her card punched 12 times.

the idea is that any immortal, on earth, warps reality around them to match. Odin gets thunderstorms. Shaaggy cause corruption.

Mab.. makes things colder.

the six months she spent sitting on that island made it snow .. 4 feet deep.. the other side of the county.

that's a LOT of cold to be putting out.

Someone should write a book on the Physics of the Dresden Files

we've come close.. the original calculations on Mab ran about 40 pages.. and that's just that run.

sorry Knnn but it can't be affecting gravity, realy. what I think his spell does is borrow weight (the force of gravity) on objects in an area and concentrate it.

why can't it be what you suggest?

well, he's still there.

Gravity is a field.. you 'cancel' it somehow and it 'cancels' for everything.. including the several kilometers of air above the point. Which would have exploded outwards, then gotten drawn back in by your 'mini black hole'.. Im too tired to do the math, but as a WAGstimate I'd put the resulting force well into the atomic bomb category. (the initial explosion would have been more than 1 metric ton per square cm of area changed)(the secondary implosion would have been much, much worse)

Frankly, the whole city should have been redecorated..

I'd estimate it more like conservation of energy, he 'borrows' force from the objects around then concentrates it; what the vampire got hit with was the weight of several cars; not several cars, and several trillion tons of air.

 

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The WoJ in my head goes a little differently. It states (paraphrasing) "who is to say they [WG and Lucifer] are not the originals? We wouldn't know." He appeared to be speculating; not necessarily a statement of DV fact.
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yea youre right, sorry I didn't state it clearly

Naw. They'll get deleted in the future anyways and besides, the two links to the threads they're in is at the top of the OP.

Sources for your first paragraph? I'd be interested in reading more about that stuff.

id recommend hitting your library and checking out comparative religions.. the connection between Tehom and the Sumerian/Babylonian Tiamat is very highly debated; the archaeology papers ive read tend to consider it very plausible while more religious authors- especially some conservative Christians- hate it.

on the nets, some good write ups ive found include:

http://anystrom.blogspot.com/2008/08/tehom-and-tiamat-concept-of-chaols-in.html

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3141790

http://archive.org/stream/babylonianinflu00palmgoog#page/n8/mode/2up

as a non believer I can see the thematic/ linguistic/ artistic connections and understand that Abrahamic religions did not evolve in a vacuum (note the flood myth, which has similar connections) but at the same time I understand why some believers might have issues with the idea.

either way, it's common enough I think it's likely Jim may have run into it, and do you really see him turning down the chance to use the original Godzilla?





 

Perhaps the "is Mab evil" discussion could be moved to a new thread?

I kind of think ti should die and stay buried, frankly.

questions of good and evil are entirely subjective and very close to TT; I have been gritting my teeth on this one for the last two pages.