Quote:I find your use of the word "physics" in this context amusing...
Any physicists here? Or rather chemists? What kind of energy reaction would occur when a solid turns into a liquid like that? Would the person that the waved nerf hits be burned?
Anyway. Changing a solid to a liquid requires energy. Changing a liquid to a solid releases that energy. There are quantum-dynamics effects that can be explained only by the effect borrowing energy from "somewhere" and giving it back once the effect is complete a fraction of a millisecond later - I'd assume that the handwavium merely amplifies this effect so that it works on human-sized space and time scales.
(Good Lord, I just brought real physics into a discussion about Fenspace. Did God kill a catgirl?)
-Rob Kelk
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