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Alsadius comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Alsadius 04 July 2013 04:05:31AM 1 point [-]

Shrapnel enters the body. Now, you don't always care about transfiguration safety when you're fighting to kill, but it's still an issue.

Comment author: Intrism 04 July 2013 04:14:50AM *  3 points [-]

Hmm, speaking of shrapnel... If one were to be hit by shrapnel from an object that had been Transfigured into a smaller one, would the shrapnel explode troll-style when the Transfiguration is Finite-d? If so, this seems like an useful effect...

Comment author: ikrase 04 July 2013 07:20:54AM 3 points [-]

Thought of it independently.

Tests for Harry to do: - Transfigure 100 kg of material into a one microgram antimatter. (Several tons of TNT equivalent, mostly gamma rays.) Detonate in shielded test chamber. Finite. What happens to the charged pions, neutral pions, and gamma rays?

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