Guys I just remembered, Austin did a video on the sword.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzwmjIKhWVM
The SCIENCE! Of Warcraft.
Its a good watch.
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I wish Kyle Hill had done a video instead.
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I like how the Austin video shows that by Azeroth’s known diameter and the sword’s metrics… graphically speaking from the sword’s in-game model… it’s barely even a splinter.
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Warcraft universe is a mythological/magical universe and their physics are as alien to our universe as their biology. Gravity in WoW doesn’t have to exist because all mass exerts some small amount of gravitational pull, it can simply exist because “Down is the direction things fall”
Pretty much.
…Though knowing what we… kind of know? about Azeroth, I find myself wondering how Azeroth even has a gravity well enough to hold an atmosphere.
Things I don’t think about outside of haha funny applying science to fantasy worlds.
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like mt everest in our own planet
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Is 10 miles the official length? That would be about 1/3 taller than Everest, though Everest at its base would be much wider, and I imagine overall Everest would have more mass.
I stood next to it and was cleaved in two.
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Idk. It’s hard to say, but presumably this sword has other uses than plunging into space eggs, so I’d have to agree personally.
I think a lot of people don’t realize that the majority of the earth (and all of the earth we have been able to drill into) does not account for our gravity well. That is the incredibly dense mass in the center of our VERY DEEP planet that does that.
(It all contributes, but since the majority of the mass is inaccessible to us, the majority of the contribution is that which we have no access to by proxy.)
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I’m so excited!
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it was, first time i’ve seen it. thank you for sharing
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it would likely have a measureable pull, as in you could hang a string a meter away from it and see it pulled a 1/2ish millimeter to the sword.
But a person standing next to it couldn’t notice the tiny amount of pull it would have on them. even as big as it is would still be less than a fraction of a percent of the planets mass (assuming similar mass to earth)
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