Physics of the Elder scrolls : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:51 pm

I've realized that a lot of the terms used in the ES can be related to science.
(I'm sorry, i cannot post links yet)

first, I'll quote rottendeadite :

Okay, so I wrote up a bunch of stuff about "Z" on Reddit, in this thread. So here's my thinking on the subject:

In short, Z is CHIM. CHIM is the final form of existence, the point you reach if you move past Mortal Death, instead of just letting your soul head up through a dream-sleeve and be recycled back into the universe.

Z is also referred to in the Loveletter as a "State Gradient Echo of Mundus Centerex." A State Gradient Echo is a math term most often applied in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and to properly understand it you'd have to understand Fourier Transforms

I have found some other links to science, and I'll try to clarify them.

-Some are obvious, like the cut of atomos that would triggers a nuclear explosion in the first Sword-Meeting,

-Others are much more harder to find and understand.

in KINMUNE :

As the barely-there Hist blink-root-ship armada fired an artillery barrage of 16th-dimensional mathematics at their Jilian enemies, impossipoint detonations stippled across the Ix-Egg and its clutch-satellites like some garish TalOSian hologram, only without the irony. Kinmune's synthetic body, caught in one of the blasts, suddenly found itself in the Ysgramorim, her mind an aggregate of the residual personalities of her last several users.

The mention of the "16 th-dimensional mathematics" can be linked (IMHO) to the Hypercomplex number ; and these numbers may be used in the string theory calculations.
For our 4th dimensional world, 2^4-1 = 2³ = 8 coefficients are necessary. These cofficients might be related to the 10 or 11 dimensions the string theory provides (8 + 2 or 3)
In the ES world, time travel is possible, so it would exist 5 dimension... and there would be in fact about 2^5-1 =16 dimensions.

I think that the Warp in the West (and the other Dragon Brokes) might be related to the Path integral formulation : succintly, a particle would take all the possible Path, and only the average could be seen .In the Warp in the West, all the possible end happened, and only the average has been observable.

Even the dualism (trialism ?) of Auriel/Akatosh/Alduin may be seen as a Symmetry breaking (in Physics) : a system ( In ES Aka, and the Electroweak interaction in our world) may reach a point where it must choice between two (or more) ways. For a Physical law, the "way" chosen will depend of the conditions. The electroweak interaction will be separate between Electromagnetism and weak interaction. Aka may have been divided into Akatosh, Auriel, Alduin, and the possible other.

And (I like to speculate) as Symetry breaking has led in our world to need a Higgs boson in order to explain some breaking...

» Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:26 pm

Can I say first off you are extremely intelligent lol I can barely grasp what you just said haha. So I will say well done for sitting down and actually thinking through those connections and doing, what looks to me like, really complex maths lol.

The Elder Scrolls world, through aesthetically and by it's inhabitants, may seem to greatly differ from ours. Naturally you'll find since it is a creation of us that it holds to the natural mathematical, physical and chemical laws that our world holds to for all we know Magicka may just be another form of amorphous energy on a far off world we've yet to discover. The applications of which are as innumerable as the discovery of said energy is indispensable.