How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if wood chucks could chuck would?

if by thaumic you mean thaumaturgic, then who cares?! you have MAGIC!!

but seriously though, no one's curious? ; ; i needs the practice!

dimensions are always fun to talk about :3 extra spacial dimensions add some really interesting consequences to the world.

consider this.

imagine you are holding a rectangular block (like a lego brick or something). the brick has three spacial dimensions: Length, Width, and Depth. if we shine a light over the brick we get a shadow, which is a two dimensional projection of our three dimensional brick. if we change the orientation of the brick with respect to the light, the area of the shadow changes, but it is still just a projection of the SAME OBJECT.

now, suppose we have an object that has many MANY spacial dimensions and we try to observe it. what we will see is a three dimensional projection of that object. if we were to move around that object, its volume may change, but it is still just a projection of the SAME OBJECT.

what does this mean?
the TARDIS may not be mathematically impossible, and if we ever get the ability to build objects in multiple spacial dimensions, then we can make things that are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside.

NEAT!

this depends entirely on the nature of the shell. the firing mechanism in most guns is entirely mechanical, while the reloading mechanism is usually done by harnessing the back pressure created from the combustion of the round. it's not unlikely though that a spaceship would have a reloading mechanism similar to that of, say, a battleship, where the rounds are reloaded through completely mechanical processes.

this means that the only issue we need to tackle is the combustible component of the round itself. if the round was designed SPECIFICALLY to fire in a vacuum it's completely feasible that the charge was designed to combust with some other, more energetic gas, and that the charge and gas are sealed behind the bullet against the vacuum.

an even better idea would probably be to just use gas pressurized charges. screw gun powder, we're in space! we can shoot bullets with compressed air! the net force applied to the bullet will be dependent on the difference in pressure between the charge and the environment. since we are in a vacuum we can get this difference to be VERY large :3

maybe minmatar guns are just giant airsoft pistols lol

Amazing thread!

Here's a question for you.

Eve ships all seem to be jet powered (not sure what they run off, as they dont need refulling). Remembering that I am a plumber by trade and not any sort of science guru, I would assume that the ships move in accordance with one of Newtons laws "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction". Now, in a car in real life, the wind resistance and rolling resistance rises at a greater rate then your speed increase, which means every vehicle will have a top speed. But a space ship has no wind or rolling resistance so theoretically, to my little mind at least, should be able to accelerate for as long as its fuel last.

Is this right, and if so, can some one please explain why my ruppy tops out at 370m/s?

if CCP wanted to we could just teleport from point A to B, no dimensions required... it's a computer simulation. we can make it do whatever we want.