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Anyone who knows anything about the periodic table can show that is nonsense. "In physics, a metal is generally regarded as any substance capable of conducting electricity at a temperature of absolute zero." (Yonezawa, F (2017). Physics of Metal-Nonmetal Transitions. Amsterdam: IOS Press. p. 257) Chemists put arsenic and antimony in the Metalloid category while astrophysics call all chemical elements that are not hydrogen and helium "metals" Last time I checked, Physicists, Chemists, and Astrophysicists were scientists. If we trim the list provided in the Our brain and metals page to the chemical definition we get this: Macro metals: Calcium (Ca) Magnesium (Mg) Sodium (Na) Potassium (K) Micro metals: Iron (Fe) Copper (Cu) Manganese (Mn) Zinc (Zn) Selenium (Se) Cobalt (Co) Molybdenum (Mo) Chromium (Cr) So yes the human body has metals. In fact that is why Lead (Pb) is so dangerous. The body mistakes it for other vital metals and uses it instead. As far as the occultists are concerned that is even more varied: "The heat of the blood is the vantage ground of the Ego, and the Lucifer Spirits from Mars aid in maintaining this heat by dissolving iron, a Mars metal, in our blood to attract oxygen, a solar element." (OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH AND HEALING) Last edited by maximara; 08-26-2019 at 08:17 AM. |
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Also, that description is kinda wonky. Things like YBCO and the other similar cuprates (as well a some iron pnictides) are in the class of materials considered strongly interacting insulators, not metals, yet they become superconductive at low enough temperatures. And then you've got topological insulators, which can conduct electricity across their surface but not through their bulk. The working definition of a metal that I'm familiar with is a material with a half-filled conduction band. Although astronomers have a weird terminology where anything that is not hydrogen or helium is called a metal ("Hey! This star's spectrum shows lots of oxygen. It is rich in metals."). Luke |
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I should mention given the development of polycarbonates changes the whole dynamics of cybernetics. You get things closer to the Westworld TV series then what we think of cybernetic and there was evidence that most of the events take place in 2052. Last edited by maximara; 08-26-2019 at 09:59 AM. |
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08-26-2019, 12:17 PM | #28 |
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Technically, no that argument doesn't work.
Rules As Written a spell is a spell. Purchased with the same rules as skills but removed from the Skill section of the rules. Just like Insta-skill can't purchase an advantage that works a lot like a skill does. Argument can be made that in the game world, magic just a different form of Chemistry or Cooking, just Neurons lined-up correctly in the grey cloud between your ears. But that still doesn't mean that skill translates into Spell in this case. There's the issue of regulation of magic in the game world preventing the production of magic tech. Accessibility to knowledge about the spell could make it not commercially viable. The metaphysics of magic and their comparability with nano-tech may simply not allow the technology to function. It would be entirely a GM's call if magic can be Insta-skilled into your brain, but if it could, certainly it would be purchased with the same point-system as skills. |
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