The World Stones

Accurace Physics for Andaril and the World Stones, new Side Story, and more!

Once again, I am caught up in severe worldbuilders disease, but fret not, all of it is “absolutely” VITAL to the story! So, what did I actually do this time? Tl:dr, I made the planet accurate to physics, finished the Skellington side story, and overcomplicated the World Stones themselves to get them to fit neatly within modern physics!

Andaril (The Planet of TWS)

After hyperfixating on space, I naturally had to make Andaril scientifically accurate as a planet! Problem? It was a smaller planet that I still wanted to act virtually identical to Earth, i.e. same gravity, atmospheric pressure, day length, etc.

I solved this by making the planet rotate slightly slower, added the same mass for the atmosphere (though tweaking the composition so that bigger creatures have more oxygen and can fly easier), and made the planetary core much denser than on Earth, which fixes the gravity problem, and adds a neat bonus of strong Aurora Borealis (through a stronger magnetosphere).

So, without further ado, here is the full scientific data of Andaril!

Planetary stats

• Diameter: 8,807.6 km
  • Radius: 4,403.8 km
• Circumference: 27,670 km
• Surface area: 243M km² (vs. Earth’s 510M km²)
  • Population modifier (e.g., converting the population density/rarity of Earth creatures to Andaril, and vice versa): 48%
  • Oceanic depth (avg): 4.5km (deepest point is 15km)
• Volume: 357B km³
• Mass: 2.85 * 10²⁴ kg (48% of Earth’s mass)
  • The higher density, as caused by more, heavier metals in the core (7.98 g/cm³ vs Earth’s 5.51 g/cm³), is what gives the planet the same gravity as Earth, despite the smaller size of the planet, albeit with a stronger magnetosphere
  • Gravity: 9.81 m/s²
    • Escape velocity: 9.29km/s (vs. Earth’s 11.18 km/s)
• Rotational speed: 1,153 km/h (equatorial) -> Days are 24h long
• Axial tilt: 18° -> milder seasons than on Earth (23.5°)
• Atmosphere: 1 Bar, 17°C, 35% O₂, 61.8% N, 3% Ar, 0.2% CO₂
• Moon(s): Andaril has a rocky moon the size of Pluto, with a diameter of 2,404km, and a distance from Andaril of 266,000 km

Skellington

Before I traumatize you with heavy astrophysics and string theory, I want to mention that I FINALLY got the Skellington side story completed! You can now read it on the side-stories page of the wiki!

Centuries after serving as a pawn of the Allfather Demon, a boneborn warrior who survived the Chaos Times tells the story of how he gained a true soul, and how he learned what it meant to be alive as something tragically ‘different’, and ultimately, how he answered the questions of what, and who he is.

Click here to read more:

The World Stones, the 10D Hyper-Objects

Now, the heavy astrophysics, many-worlds-interpretation of quantum mechanics, and complex string theory! (Sorry…)

The World Stones are without a doubt immensely powerful primordial magical objects, but what if they still followed the laws of physics? Well, that was what I wanted to have them do, but… I had a whole list of problems to solve:

• The laws of thermodynamics
• The law of conservation of energy
• Energy requirements -> needs a ton of mass-energy
  • How an object with such mass doesn’t collapse into a black hole
• How you can hold such an object in your hand like a stone
• The distinct glow of the stones
• Paradoxes involved with time manipulation (e.g., grandfather paradox)
• Time-travel and the spatial-drift problem (traveling back in time would need to account for planetary, solar, and galactic orbit)
• Visions of the past/future/other worlds, and how they could function
• Healing through time-reversal without violating either thermodynamics, causality, or any other physical law, nor causing any paradoxes
• The hard problem of consciousness itself…

So… Behold… The ‘totally-not-overcomplicated’ answer to all those problems! The World Stones are actually 10-dimensional hyper-objects!

Now hear me out! This works for a whole list of reasons.

1. It allows the World Stones to have the equivalent mass of a dwarf galaxy, while keeping the apparent physical mass (and subsequent inertia) at the same size of a small pebble. This is fully within the bounds of string theory (which posits that while the other fundamental forces are “closed strings”, gravity might be an “open string”, capable of wandering into the higher dimensional “bulk”).

2. This also makes the objects fully indestructible (because the energy to destroy them requires the amount of energy to destroy a physical object with the mass of a galaxy)

3. It allows me to explain the distinct glows through Hawking Radiation (of the immense mass leaking through to the 3rd dimension)

4. It gives the stones perfect thermal superconductivity (becuase of the galactic thermal-mass)

5. It gives the Stones the energy (E=mc²) required for their abilities.

6. Most importantly, it explains how the Stones don’t collapse into black holes!

7. Being 10-dimensional objects, it also explains how they can change their shape (appearing bigger, smaller, a completely different shape, weight, etc.), which they do by merely altering how they intersect with the 3rd dimension (like how a sphere passing through a 2D plane becomes bigger and smaller depending on the intersected circle’s size).

Without being 10-dimensional objects, it would’ve also been quite difficult to explain the mechanics of their abilities; the absolute disintegration/destruction and creation out of thin air of the Stones of Destruction and Creation, would otherwise violate the Law of Conservation of Energy (can neither be created nor destroyed).

Instead of ‘destroying’ matter, the Stones of Destruction simply absorbs the energy/mass into its higher dimensional structure, while the Stone of Creation does the opposite, weaving matter out of the matter/energy it takes from its higher dimensional structure.

So, creation and destruction were somewhat simple to explain physically (hence them being “simple” Dekaspheres, i.e. 10-dimensional spheres), the Stone of Life & Time was a whole different beast…

The issue of time-travel, energy requirements, paradoxes, and consciousness was a bit tricky to solve, let me tell you that. In order to get the math working, I had to make the Stone of Life & Time be an even more complex object, a 10D Hyper-Horn-Torus with a singularity at its center (which functions as an antenna of sorts, a white-hole (opposite of a black hole) to the 0th dimension, which is the “point-field of consciousness“, the “fundamental unbound nothingness” that reality, and physics, is made of. So I could weave in Advaita Vedanta non-duality, obviously!).

Life, consciousness, awareness, intelligence, love, and all that it means to be truly alive, is given by the stone by connecting to this singularity and letting these “consciousness pixels” spew forth into the other dimensions.

The Stone gains its own intelligence and awareness (which is a requirement to process and intelligently function through the higher 4th, 5th, and 6th dimensions) by utilizing the accretion disc analogue of the white-hole, i.e. the pure consciousness flowing out from the center of the white-hole.

So, time travel?… First, let me give you a rundown of the many-worlds-interpretation of quantum mechanics. We exist in the 3rd dimension. The 4th dimension includes the axis of time, where past and future both exist in the present. The 5th dimension includes every possible course of events in THIS universe, whereas the 6th dimension includes every possible starting arrangement of the universe, i.e. every CONCEAVABLE universe.

To grant the user visions of the past or future, the stone merely pulls that information from the 4th dimension. Visions of other worlds moves that into the 5th or 6th dimension.

As for healing, since you can’t just grab a severed arm from yourself in the past to give it to yourself in the future (since then you create the Grandfather Paradox, where if you didn’t have the arm in the past anymore, you couldn’t have lost it in the first place), and grabbing it from a parallel 5th dimension would be quite cruel, I landed on the solution of the stone reading the quantum state of the 5th dimension, overwriting the host universe’s wave function (through quantum entanglement) to match that of the donor universe.

So essentially, if you lose an arm, the stone looks through the 5th dimension to another universe where you didn’t lose it (maybe you evaded a sword at the last minute), and overwrites the quantum-wave-state of your arm in your world to match that of the world where you never lost it, hence preventing the Grandfather paradox!

So… There’s a lot more to it than that, and a lot more information I added to the Stones’ wiki pages, but this post is already FAR too long, so I won’t bore you with the details.

More on the World Stones by clicking this:

Or more on the individual stones by clicking the links below:

For more information on all the stuff I just talked about, please check out the full wiki entries on the World Stones Wiki: theworldstones.com