#to the physics folks in the audience I'm sorry for any inaccuracies. you know who you are.

[essektheylyss]

What's dunamis, in your words? For the uninitiated

So, with apologies for watering down an already watered down scientific metaphor, there's an anecdote that comes up a lot if you read any sort of pop science books on quantum theory or physics, wherein a professor burns a sheet of paper and tells a class, "All of the information on the paper still exists in the ashes," because in theory, quantum information cannot be destroyed. This analogy is super metaphorical, generally referring to the idea that, for example, anything that gets pulled into a black hole is not in fact lost, it's just beyond our reach, with the understanding that "information" is a highly broad term applied to many, many things and in this realm of physics it has a very particular meaning that most people do not consider when they hear the word 'information,' but this isn't a semiotics lecture.

Anyway, as such, it gets completely misconstrued as the idea of quite literally being able to reconstruct whatever notes or ideas were recorded on that paper, which is not accurate in real world physics. Information as ideas and concepts are not recorded in subatomic particles, at least not in anyway we can access or reconstruct.

However... it could be true in an arcane system, if you wanted it to, cuz why not! And given dunamis's impact on probability, and pulling from alternate timelines and potential, as well as the fact that consecution suggests souls are held within a beacon and then put back into a newly-born body, I'm essentially of the mind that dunamis could take the place of those subatomic particles and, when manipulated in the arcane sense, can be used to essentially reconstruct conceptual information of the universe. (That's the very basic idea, anyway, and I'm just using this for fic fodder, but if you are interested in wading through a very introspective chunk of fic for more, it's mostly in here.)

Which is just slightly to the left (and essentially could be a next possible conjecture) of what Caleb described.

#to the physics folks in the audience I'm sorry for any inaccuracies. you know who you are. #worth noting that egtw does suggest 'holds the elements together' as a possible theory for dunamis #(and I presume it is using elements in the classical sense not the modern sense. to be clear.) #but yeah mostly a pop science idea of quantum information #cuz what is speculative fiction for but annoying actual scientists by perpetuating pop science!!! #for legal reasons this is a joke #also great time to note I do hope anyone who is new around here post wizard tournament clicked on that first fic in my pinned lmfao. #just because the absolute fucking whiplash between wwe and that. I hope somebody experienced that. #dichotomy of megs really. #cr spoilers #(by extension) #cr meta #luxon blogging