[He only has himself to blame, for making assumptions and not explaining it to begin with....]
Okay, math lesson: no it fucking isn't.
A vector is the quantity you use to represent something, anything, that has a magnitude and a direction. There are tons of different kinds of vectors: a car's acceleration is a vector, your body weight is a vector, the velocity of an airplane taking off is a vector.
An object with vectors isn't limited to something tangible, either. Forces like gravity, and magnetism have vectors, even though you can't reach out and touch them. The size of an object doesn't matter, either. Molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide have vectors, and so do entire goddamned planets.
By altering something's vectors you can speed it up, slow it down, or change its direction. That sounds like dogshit, but it has a lot of uses. For our mission I can't change the density of some heavy piece of equipment, but I can alter its vectors upwards so it's easy to lift.
That's how I cracked the floor in that building when we were training. I can alter the vectors in my body to be stronger and faster than I look, but the kinetic forces involved in pushing myself off that hard broke the ground. It's along the same lines as you punching a window and causing it to crack, except all I did was tap my foot to start moving.
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Date: 2023-05-09 05:58 am (UTC)Fucking hell.
[He only has himself to blame, for making assumptions and not explaining it to begin with....]
Okay, math lesson: no it fucking isn't.
A vector is the quantity you use to represent something, anything, that has a magnitude and a direction. There are tons of different kinds of vectors: a car's acceleration is a vector, your body weight is a vector, the velocity of an airplane taking off is a vector.
An object with vectors isn't limited to something tangible, either. Forces like gravity, and magnetism have vectors, even though you can't reach out and touch them. The size of an object doesn't matter, either. Molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide have vectors, and so do entire goddamned planets.
By altering something's vectors you can speed it up, slow it down, or change its direction. That sounds like dogshit, but it has a lot of uses. For our mission I can't change the density of some heavy piece of equipment, but I can alter its vectors upwards so it's easy to lift.
That's how I cracked the floor in that building when we were training. I can alter the vectors in my body to be stronger and faster than I look, but the kinetic forces involved in pushing myself off that hard broke the ground. It's along the same lines as you punching a window and causing it to crack, except all I did was tap my foot to start moving.
Does that make sense?