A Memory of Light - Possible Senario Part 1 - SPOILERs!!

[wvlr]

Thanks!

 

That sounds good to me. I remembered Rand saying "Somewhere?" that it took only a little power for him to make his sword. But what you said puts it in a much more understandable perspective.

 

Didn't Mat try to use the one in Tear a second time and it "rejected" him??? Or am I remembering it wrong? Must be time for a reread!

[RobertAlexWillis]

Yes, he did. He tried to jump back through the doorframe after being chucked out, and simply went through it physically in Randland, rather than passing back into 'finn-land. (TSR, ch 15)

[Guest Anonymous!]

RobertAlexWillis: I'm uncertain about some of your terminology in the hypothesis on the melting doorway. I always thought of the doorways as the conduit to each Finnland dimension from Randland reality, which includes the One Power. In other words the One Power doesn't exist in the two Finnland dimensions. The only way to draw on it is through the Doorway Ter'angreal. If a channelor draws too much of the One Power through the Doorway the doorway would burn out, like too much current through a circut: fizzle.

 

I prefer to think of it this way since Moiraine seized the One Power before tackling Lanfear. It was as if she was trying to overload the doorway.

 

I do like some of your concepts about interactions between two physical realities. We know from Jordan's Question of the Week that no physical interactions can affect the one power unless it does so indirectly through the channelor. So in essence you are saying the Doorway acts as a boundry layer between the two realities. The boundary layer was disrupted by the amount Power pulling though it, allowing an interaction between the two physical realities which resulted in a violent reaction (like matter and anti-matter) Did I get the gist or am I off?

[RobertAlexWillis]

Well ... as I said, this is all highly, HIGHLY theoretical, Anonymous ... a couple of points that might help clarify:

 

If pretty sure the One Power exists in 'finn'land (which is one "dimension" that the Eelfinn and Aelfinn share, if I understand it correctly). It is a "parallel world", and a part of the Wheel, according to Jordan at DragonCon 2005 (cited on wotmania here: http://www.wotmania.com/faqtopic.asp?ID=25 ). The Power drives the Wheel everywhere, so it would have to be there.

 

This theory is based on the idea that in different physical realities, physical constants might vary. For example, the value of pi here in our universe is 3.14159265 blah blah blah. We create geometric figures and build things with these physical constants in mind. Weaving also takes these into account.

 

But what if you're in a universe where the physical constants are different? What if pi is NOT equal to 3.14 etc. What if the very curvature of space is different? That would account for the strange visual effects Mat and Rand and the others experience (turning in place yet getting somewhere different, corridors that don't seem to turn but pass out of sight, etc.) It would also account for the Aelfinn's ability to see into the future (space and time being essentially the same "thing"). If you tried to weave strands of the Power under those circumstances, but using the rules you learned in our reality, the geometry of your construct would be in conflict with the nature of the reality you were in.

 

(As a side note, if I'm right, travel within the Tower of Ghenjei may just blow your mind.)

 

The inherent "fabric" of a given reality can withstand a certain amount of stress. So, Rand is able to weave his fire-sword without disastrous results. But the greater the geometric paradox, the more stress put on the "fabric" of reality, the curvature of space that holds everything together. The specific nature of the reaction would be impossible to predict, but it could be violent, and taking place at, or even through (Lanfear was weaving, not just holding the Power when she got tackled) a controlled connection between conflicting geometric realities would certainly stress the connection even more than it stressed the innate "fabric" of the reality that the channelers now inhabited.

 

Meltdown, resulting not only in the catastrophic destruction of the connection, but also in the loss of Moiraine and Lanfear's ability to channel the Power.

 

Did that help or make it worse? :lol: