Well there goes conservation of mass. Nice job, +1. Now if we could just figure out how to produce energy from this clay….
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It's an interesting effect, but the presentation bores me to death. "The first is that it does not release nor absorb moisture." <— this is where it starts going downhill for me. I just hate the linear "this then this then this" way of describing stuff, and it'd be nice to see the primary effect in more than a couple sentences.
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I like it. You've played around with one of the laws of the universe, but managed to restrain the article so that it doesn't give an overly dramatic "THIS COULD DESTROY THE UNIVERSE" message.
Also I love that The Foundation was able to figure out the method behind it, if not the means.
I'm not a fan. It feels like something James Bond would pull out at the last second of a fight.
It feels like something James Bond would pull out at the last second of a fight.
What?
Bond: "Crap, there's too many of them!"
Q: "Bond, you know what to do."
Bond: "No, not that!"
Q: "Yes Agent Bond, the Clay, use the Clay!"
I love how this totally justifies extensive use of imperial measurements. Also, this is pretty interesting. Very clearly man-made, considering its connection to an arbitrary measurement. Factoring clay. Hmm.
Concept doesn't grab me in its current bare bones structure, and the article itself could flow better; instead of clearly listing the properties, try being more subtle. It may be worth considering some experiment logs to determine uses.
Why be subtle when, in this particular case, The Foundation has figured out almost exactly how it works?
It wouldn't gain from subtlety, in my opinion.
In fact, I think the bluntness of the article is one of it's strong points. This is the same class of thing as the sideways-falling rock; it fucks with physics in a single, really specific way, which is very easy to document, and there's nothing inherently dangerous about it, but it still needs to be contained because it fucks with physics.
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Seconded. It's this blatant, completely unashamed "FUCK YOUR PHYSICS I DO WHAT I WANT" that is so attractive to me about this article.
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Came here to basically say this.. fourthed.
There's something about the fact you used clay that I like in particular. I could picture a rewrite of the same article but about physics-altering silly putty brewed in a lab or something, and it wouldn't be anywhere close to as interesting or appealing. +1
I actually like how spare and simple this is. It does one thing, and we have no idea how or why, and the article reflects that elegantly.
Also, you managed to write a worthwhile article about a featureless cube that doesn't follow physics. That's a non-negligible achievement.
I don't know why this is interesting to me, it just is. +1
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