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Kromolok every new years thereafter; damn, what's Eric gonna break this year

Gavriel

No, vacuum decay propagation is at the speed of light.

James Skinner

regardless, it would erase Veirde within 1 second and that would be that. It would race to the edge of the script and either stop, or continue its march across all of that dead creation.

Pheonixarcher

Eh unless I have some fundamental physics misunderstanding, “real” vacuum decay would propagate at the speed of light too. But regardless, it’s all theoretical anyway, so who really knows?

Jeff Casey

Not necessarily. Universe-altering magic could certainly propagate at the speed of light if that is the way magic works.

jordan

This was a scary chapter. Small point, the annihilation of known universe would occur near instantaneously across everything as this vacuum decays to a stable low energy vacuum. Fundamental rules of physics would likely change rendering the basic structures of the universe not possible (kromolok said it would happen at the speed of light).

James Fotouhi

Thank you Arcs. I look forward to this every week. So intelligent and well thought out. So compelling. I hope you can publish this to paper one day if that is what you wish!

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

“Have to be a solution” —> “has to be…”

Joe Long

These last few chapters have been great. You've been hitting them out of the park!

BeatleNerd

THEY DID WHAT TO THE GOD OF MAGICS MIND!!!!!!!!!!

Pheonixarcher

'much break either' -> 'much to break either' 'systemic problems and well' and -> as

Corwin Amber

I have more respect for the inquisitors after this chapter. Having all that knowledge of ways for the universe to end would scare the crap out of anyone, yet they are still willing to maybe help Erick. Also, that Wrought inquisitor that cried and ran away seems interesting. Hope we see more of her.

Overclocked

Thank you for the chapter! Glad to see this conversation happening, and with such honesty!

Seijax

I'd expect it to, as to make a black hole you'd need significant amounts of mass to be collapsed unto itself to create the singularity. If indirect manipulation can skirt the ban then they're going to have a problem the first time they land on a planet that has fissile materials on and someone learns to manifest the particle needed to start the reaction

Seijax

I hadn't really thought of it before, but would creating black holes fall under the same rule that prevents direct manipulation of atoms? I'm not entirely certain a region of high gravitational potential is quite the same, but it has to be banned by something...