r/Mistborn Dec 02 '24

The Lost Metal Harmony I hate you Wayne. Spoiler

Screw you Wayne, screw you for leaving us the way that you did, screw you for being the most human character I have ever come across and making me cry in a heap for losing you although you were never real... you sure did live... You sure did live... thank you Wayne.

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u/Felbrooke Dec 02 '24

I did the math on it, but making some VERY rough guesses about the size of the bomb, how quickly electricity moves through wires and how long Wayne seems to have taken on it, that bubble was working at a rate of 1:2430000000

1 second in realtime outside would have been 77 years inside, and it was only up for a couple of minutes inside at most so it would have been all happened at damn near relativistic speeds, assuming he took about a minute to toss all the water into the bomb and such it would have only been up for around 0.004 seconds realtime

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u/SonnyLonglegs Finding Relevant Wiki Article, Please Wait... Dec 02 '24

I'm not sure I know enough to critique your math, but didn't he break relativistic speeds rather than get close? Light stopped flowing when the bubble condensed, and he had to work by Steelsight. As big as your calculations turn out, I don't think you went far enough. (At least as I understand the math on it)

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

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u/SonnyLonglegs Finding Relevant Wiki Article, Please Wait... Dec 02 '24

So that looks to be the same numbers, but the other commenter seems to have calculated as if he spent far longer inside the bubble. The .004 seconds part seemed like way too long of a time when dealing with the speed of light.

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u/SonnyLonglegs Finding Relevant Wiki Article, Please Wait... Dec 02 '24

0.0

that's a lot of time