Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-25936766-20170708210049

Blu3 Fir3 - V2.0 wrote:

Whatever's inside gets trapped between the surface of the targeted object and whatever got inside of it. Unless, whatever's inside is removed from the targeted object by an outside force. I think that makes the most sense for what would happen. Not sure though as I'm not too science-savvy. "Not too science-savvy" is irrelevant. It doesn't even need much thinking to know what would happen: You'd kill someone like that.

Now, in detail....:

Imagine a closed box, absolutely filled on the inside with water. Due to being a closed box, if something appeared there, best case scenario is that the water would be pushed back....but due to being a closed box, there is no space to fall back into. Meaning that whatever object appeared inside the box would be pressed. Harshly. Similarly with a gas.

Now, imagine that the box, on the inside, it's not a liquid, or a gas, but Solid. A rigid, solid body, in every bit of it's mass per unit of volume. Rigid bodies require a great force, to deform them or move them, they don't just change shape or anything to accomodate for whatever you press against them or put inside them.

Which means that, everything I said would happen if the box was filled with water? It would be a million times worse. It'd be like being hammered absolutely everywhere, every single moment, until you hopefully blow up.

Why does this happen? Because the space the box occupies is also occupied by the other object. Every cubical centimeter of space in that area is occupied by the particles that make up the box, along with the other object.

You know how pressing things with much force against each other can break them, or worse? Well, imagine placing something in the exact location something else is. The result is supremely worse.

So: Let's say there's a tree, made intangible. Someone passes by it, and their arm is inside the still-intangible tree. Then the tree becomes tangible again. Consider that the arm is still inside the tree at the time, when it reappears. It's wood, it's nothing but wood inside and outside.

The result: The arm suffers the supreme god of all squishing, and is hopefully liquified into nigh-oblivion, while the person that had their arm inside the tree is dismembered, all in practically an instant.

If the tree was, somehow, absolutely hollow, then the arm wouldn't be squished into oblivion, but the person would still be dismembered because the surface is still absolutely solid, and while the inside of the tree is empty (and thus whatever part of the arm is in there would not be squished), whatever part of the arm is touching that surface can still suffer.

For similar reasons, Teleporting has Required Secondary Powers, mostly displacing particles in the air. Otherwise....there's nightmare fuel.