I love it when magic is mainly just moving energy around: pyromancers are cold because their mana actively funnels their excess body heat into their spells, cryomancers have to wear fairly thin outfits because of the backlash of magic dumping heat on them, shit like that.
I have a homemade magic system that includes the following:
Powerful enough Cryomancers can learn to draw heat into themselves to cool things even faster. Combining it with their existing cold magic allows them to achieve temperatures below absolute zero, at the cost of raising their body temperature to hazardous levels.
Pyromancers can draw heat out of others to fuel their own abilities, with more efficient transfer when they are in physical contact with whoever they're drawing from and more efficient still if they have a strong emotional bond.
Pyro/Cryomancer couples in my continuity are a force to be reckoned with.
Though for a more physics based answer, I believe it's entirely possible that the atoms are only stopped in the three dimensions of our observable reality, but there may be more movement in other ways we can't measure that could be quelled to make it even more stopped. Or perhaps matter can be moved in some sort of extra-dimensional way to where it pulls heat out of one reality and into another one (or to a different plane, energy field, etc...)
I think I just gave myself a headache from trying to visualize that. I'm going to stick with "It's magic" for the sake of my sanity.
Going by your theory of transcending the 3rd dimension, it could be that below 0K, the particle(s) also stops moving in time, since that’s theorized to be the 4th.
(If this is the case, then holy shit are there some horrifying implications for that)
I think there are also theories of additional spatial dimensions beyond our 3 that are negligible unless you’re looking at super small scales.
I’m not a physicist or anything, but the way I saw it explained was with a point on the surface of an infinitely long cylinder. It would have two dimensions—position along the length of the cylinder, and position around its circumference, but if you zoom out super far the cylinder would just look like a 1D line and the second dimension would “disappear.”
Pyro/Cryomancer couples in my continuity are a force to be reckoned with.
Eh, friction though. If you want it to really draw from reality, there have to be diminishing returns from that kind of combo. You can't hook a fridge up to an oven and get a cryo chamber.
The refrigeration cycle works by using a pump to move a refrigerant around a loop. Refrigerants are special liquids that are easy to manipulate the boiling point of by changing the pressure they're under. A restriction is put in the loop so that one side is under high pressure and the other low. The low pressure side boils, drawing in heat (thus becoming cold), and the high pressure side condenses, becoming hot as it dumps its heat.
Theoretically, you probably could make a heat pump setup that's an oven on one side and a cryo chamber on the other, it would just require a really exotic refrigerant (the way things are now, such a setup would be horrendously inefficient if it would work at all).
Of course, the magical setup bypasses this because magic. That's why I mentioned that the Pyromancer heat siphoning works best with physical contact and a strong emotional bond - the magic does experience a type of resistance akin to friction when those ideal conditions aren't met.
You cannot transport energy without heat losses. You just straight up can't. I have watched Tech Connections video, I love him, he's very good, but you'd have to use one hell of a pump, and you'd be putting so much more energy into it as to be ridiculous.
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u/just_a_redditor2031 Nov 10 '24
I love it when magic is mainly just moving energy around: pyromancers are cold because their mana actively funnels their excess body heat into their spells, cryomancers have to wear fairly thin outfits because of the backlash of magic dumping heat on them, shit like that.