[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.
[Damn, that sure is a text wall. Leo spends a minute just squinting at the length of it. Then he decides to go look at Twitter for a bit.
Then he comes back and actually tries to read this thing.
He has to admit that the explanation is pretty comprehensive, even with all the cursing. Accelerator acts annoyed with him but still spent all that time typing it up!
So this is what he meant when he said he uses math to manipulate vectors or whatever. Leo understands the broad strokes now, at least. Not that it matters all that much to him how it works as long as he knows how he can use it.]
[Accelerator actually assumes for a little while that Leo has just abandoned any attempt at reading all of that. He probably should have made it shorter, or just said yes, but it's pretty important that he understands how vector manipulation works. If only so he gets how massively dangerous the reflection portion of it is.
That said, he is completely unamused by the reply that appears on his phone.
It's so good this isn't face-to-face because Accelerator wants to strangle him right now.]
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2023-05-09 05:28 am (UTC)its a word they have characters in scifi movies say when they want them to seem smart
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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?
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Date: 2023-05-09 06:20 am (UTC)Then he comes back and actually tries to read this thing.
He has to admit that the explanation is pretty comprehensive, even with all the cursing. Accelerator acts annoyed with him but still spent all that time typing it up!
So this is what he meant when he said he uses math to manipulate vectors or whatever. Leo understands the broad strokes now, at least. Not that it matters all that much to him how it works as long as he knows how he can use it.]
yeah ok
so what im getting from this is
you COULD smother someone
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Date: 2023-05-09 06:29 am (UTC)That said, he is completely unamused by the reply that appears on his phone.
It's so good this isn't face-to-face because Accelerator wants to strangle him right now.]
Yes, you son of a bitch. I could smother someone.
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Date: 2023-05-09 03:43 pm (UTC)ok but now that I get it I see how it would be useful for a lot of things
so ill keep it in mind
[Leo's job is to get people where they need to go to use their skills most effectively, or at least, that's how it is in his mind.]
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Date: 2023-05-09 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-10 03:52 pm (UTC)but yeah sure ill message you if I think of anything else
[Get ready for stupid questions at stupid o'clock, Accelerator.]
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Date: 2023-05-10 06:03 pm (UTC)Alright. Anything else?
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Date: 2023-05-11 02:44 pm (UTC)I think I’m good