Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-32182236-20190909202300

@Jacky:And you're even better than I thought.

I thought you debunked it, but you're right-There is a way to fix the theory.

Well, sort of. This time, I'll be the skeptic.. Though this time, I'll just be raising a few questions. (But I do think you made it stronger than it ever was before. I'm actually going to start by finding a few more things that are explained by your take-Your fix brings us a lot closer to a working model than I ever did!)

Under this model, the human SOUL likely generates its own magic, and could eventually break free, if not for the energy the monsters use to trap the SOUL within. A field where teleportation is impossible. The box.

One might wonder why monsters evolved larger boxes rather than smaller ones. I propose that the field is similar to an electromagnetic field, and the walls of the box serve as a boundary for any objects which share said field-Like a human SOUL, or the field itself.

The field has to be strong enough to entrap the SOUL.. But what happens when you condense charged particles into one place? They repel each other.

It would take a constant amount of energy to keep the field in one place, to prevent it from breaking through the walls, or pushing them outward. The denser you want the field to be, the more energy required.

So, in this model, larger boxes actually take less energy.. But of course, there are diminishing returns, and eventually, the walls themselves will start requiring more energy than the field, so there is a "sweet spot".

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This could explain how Jerry allows attacks to last longer. If he uses his energy to energize the field, then the other monsters have more energy to fire attacks.

...Though there are a few problems with this version, so we either need to tweak it, or find another explanation.

First off, the observed fact is that Jerry makes attacks last for a consistent 2 seconds longer. My model predicts that the amount should change depending on the number of monsters there are.

Since monster attacks don't get longer due to there being more monsters, that must mean that each individual monster must exert a certain amount of energy for the field. And I don't see any reason why the amount required to keep the field going should be proportional to the number of monsters. It'd make sense for it to be proportional to the number of humans, but monsters?

Second, let's say the law is true. If that's the case, then Jerry's contributions should diminish depending on the number of monsters there are total.

Let X be the amount of energy required to keep the field going for a single monster, Y be the amount of contribution done by monsters other than Jerry, and J be the contribution done by Jerry. Z is the amount of energy used to make monster attacks. M is the total number of monsters.

Y=J-Z

If we add variable W for the average output for the monster (if E, energy required, scales with monsters, then this variable is what we need to see how well we're doing) total, we get:

W=((M-1)Y)+J)/M

It goes down as M goes up, because Y is less than J. But that's not what we observe in the game.

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..And now to the questions.

...How is Sans keeping the field going while he's asleep?