European warfare was built around a sort of social Darwinism where you would pretty much throw away the lower classes but the gentry was protected. Thus all sorts of weird rules sprung up that led to tactics that aren't effective if they are taken out of the context of European warfare. The American Revolution began changing that, as the colonials wanted to win rather than respecting  hundreds of years of tradition. Ironically, the west faces the same kind of thing against fanatical Islam again, where the opponents use tactics that are abhorrent because they just want to win.

None of this is really applicable to a total warfare state though.

Men don't feel the taint seeping into them most of the time, they just sense the taint and touching it. Sometimes when they are more crazy than not they say they can feel it infesting them.

Simple rule of thumb, if you stopped channelling, would something keep happening? If yes then it affects Mat, if no then it doesn't.

Because the DO wants to end time, breaking the pattern doesn't stop the Wheel from turning, just screws up the world.

That brings up an interesting point about the nature of the connection to the Source. Nyn repaired it and the saidin repairs saidar all the way thing comes up, but if Moir can be limited it isn't like a pipe that has a leaky connector, there is something else happening. I would say if it is possible to return Moir to her full power, it would be possible to open any person who could channel up to level 25/saidin Max Level.

Ishy didn't know who was who until Perrin got his wolves and Mat touched the statue with the dagger, was the merging dream before or after that?

Ishy was just messing with the boys. He didn't know which was LTT so he sent the same dreams to all the ta'veren he could find. They were just there to convince them to turn to the Shadow, though they don't work that well.

The first guy who found out the extra bit must of had a real bitch of a wife to want it.

I just use safari, it seems to work fine

Does anyone else have a real hard time reading some of the threads here that are essentially solved in the spoilers but people are still arguing about?

Morgase is the weakest channeler. Being AS requires a fairly signifigant amount of channeling. There is nothing special about 13 when it comes to shielding, just that 13 linked weak channelers have a big enough pool to shield much a stronger one.

I thought BS said there is a section in Hinderstrap that was written by Rj and he found it amusing that anyone points to it and says it is him just adding filler?

Shadowspawn don't enter the waste unless they are after Rand anyway, they call it the Dieing Grounds and don't venture below the Blight.

ToM 34:

“I think someone’s setting a trap for us,” Perrin said softly. “Boxing us in. I’ve sent some others out to look for the thing causing this; it’s probably some kind of object of the One Power.” He worried that it might be hidden in the wolf dream. Could something there produce an effect in the real world? “Now, you’re sure you can’t create gateways at all? Not even to other points nearby, inside the affected area?”

 

Neald shook his head.

 

The rules are different on this side, then, Perrin thought. Or, at least, it works differently on Traveling than it does on shifting in the wolf dream. “Neald, you said with the larger gateways— using a circle—you could move the entire army through in a few hours?”

No you can't. Perrin could teleport in TAR within the dome but not outside it, but the Asha'man couldn't make gateways at all.

They are only immune to it while holding saidin. As for controlling him, Moir said that Lan was like a lion held by a thread. You get a guy with a very strong personality as warder you are going to have to work hard to keep him in line, and if you are AS you are used to doing what you are told.

But you aren't supposed to channel until you reach the sign and then you can only channel one thing. Faith in the Way of the Leaf would probably help you there rather than trying to hit anything that was sent against you. Of course they could just have some big guy standing in a doorway saying 'I won't move unless you kill me with that knife over there'.

I thought it was Fain, but I don't know why. Probably because he liked taunting Rand.

Then you have no basis to say that the voice is a construct. If the voice is real because it knows things that it couldn't otherwise, and there is no one to tell if the personality of the voice is the same as it was when it was alive, then both 'it is actually LTT' and 'it is a random voice that has LTT's memories' are equally valid. Occam's Razor says with two equally valid theories you take the one that introduces the least new assumptions, which is that the voice is actually LTT.

Well, only the most corrupt and lost in the Shadow do it, so they probably aren't the smartest people in the world anyway.

I never liked Egwene because she has no loyalties. Or rather her loyalties are to whatever she is doing at the moment. As soon as she met the wise ones she started looking down on AS, and soon as she was in Salidar the AS were the pinnicle of achievement, except for those who didn't do what she wanted who were idiots.

The Mary Sue element never bothered me, in many ways WoT is built on them. Ta'veren is the most egragious attempt of rationalizing Deus Ex Machina I have ever read.

Did they ever go away? They were there for a couple of days, contrails or such vanish after a few hours at most. Atmospheric disruption caused by magic might be a perminant fixture of the sky though.

I always thought the Grolm were travelled there by Lanfear.

Quick manufacture is required as well, since she is already in a war. Using people already trained in casting metal is the best way to do this so bellfounders using bronze was probably a big factor in her manufacturing plan to have them ready to fight the Seanchan.

Well, in that case it depends. A lot of magic isn't internally consistent, in that kind of world you can't really create a set of sciences that reflect it because the spells are arbitrary. In WoT it is fairly consistent, so you could apply the scientific method to creating new weaves based on what currently known weaves do, but it carries a high cost of failure.

Physics as we know it doesn't really survive any major new discovery, all sciences are constantly evolving with every new thing we learn. The point where you find you can throw specific herbs in a pot in a specific order while saying specific words sometimes produces remarkable results, sometimes produces a nice stew and sometimes nothing happens with no consistency is when the scientific method breaks.

The method is the important thing rather than the results, if it turned out that physics only works because tiny unborn puppies move the electrons around it doesn't really matter as long as they move the electrons around consistently. That way you can make a hypothesis and test it to see if it conforms to reality.

So to answer your question: physics as we know it would survive discovery of magic as long as the magic obeys consistent rules and didn't change how the universe works when it is discovered.

A lot of science is saying 'there isn't really anything saying this can't happen, just that it doesn't'.