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Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« on: July 14, 2013, 11:41:13 PM »
Suppose that you take a strong container -- a bell jar, for example -- and fill it with ectoplasm. Then you seal the container and allow the ectoplasm to dissipate. Since ectoplasm evaporates into "nothing", would you end up with a perfect vacuum?

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Re: Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2013, 12:15:49 AM »
No. By definition, evaporation is the process in which a liquid becomes a gas. You'd just have a jar filled with ectoplasm gas.
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Re: Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2013, 02:07:52 AM »
No. By definition, evaporation is the process in which a liquid becomes a gas. You'd just have a jar filled with ectoplasm gas.
That's the case for normal matter, yes, but ectoplasm "evaporates" back into whatever spiritual plane it came from in the first place.

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Re: Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2013, 02:09:21 AM »
That's the case for normal matter, yes, but ectoplasm "evaporates" back into whatever spiritual plane it came from in the first place.

Is that ever mentioned?
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Re: Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2013, 02:46:13 AM »
Is that ever mentioned?
Shall I go all the way back to the first book?

The goo wouldn’t last long—within a few more minutes, it would simply dissipate, vanish into thin air, return to wherever it had come from in the first place.
--Storm Front, ch. 23

If it didn't, every summoning would add a little more mass to the universe...

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Re: Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2013, 03:55:40 AM »
You could probably do this with a simple air evocation.

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Re: Stupid Wizard Tricks: A Jar of Vacuum
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2013, 04:01:45 AM »
You could probably do this with a simple air evocation.
That wouldn't be half as fun.  ;D