wotwiki

Interview #1133: Chicago, Entry #136

Kurkistan

Okay, so I’m contractually obligated to ask about time bubbles one more time.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

Kurkistan

So what’s up with frame of reference for time bubbles; in that obviously if you make a bubble and it’s still it’s not really still, like time moves differently but-

Brandon Sanderson

We deal with that a little bit in Era 2 Book 2 [Shadows of Self], where we talk about the fact that you know- obviously the bubble is moving with the planet. So they’re not– the frame of reference is not absolute.

Kurkistan

Yeah.

Brandon Sanderson

And so we talk about sorta’ the idea of mass and momentum and time bubbles and things like that.

Kurkistan

Okay

Brandon Sanderson

For instance you can make a time bubble on a train.

Kurkistan

Oh and it stays on the train?!

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, but when you start catching stuff off of the train, it’s gonna’ jar each time, and it’s probably going to ruin your time bubble, right?

Kurkistan

So does it get it’s “anchor” from– it’s asking all the things that are within it what they think “still” is?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. That’s a good way of looking at it. Frame of reference for the cognitive things around. Make sense?

Kurkistan

Okay; the things around or the things within it, specifically?

Brandon Sanderson

The things that it’s cutting into, specifically, but yeah.

Tags

time bubbles ,

frame of reference ,

Brandon on magic systems

Contributing

If you are viewing this on github.io, you can see that this site is open source. Please do not try to improve this page. It is auto-generated by a python script. If you have suggestions for improvements, please start a discussion on the github repo or the Discord.