Toa Of Virtues

...and awesome! I think that gun on his back gave him the hunch.

Yeah, LoSS was sighted at a Target in California. Haha California is not in the mid-west! I'm talking about Chicago and the like.

Any sightings in the mid-west?

This topic is going much better than what I would have expected! Does anyone want to tackle Umbra's solid-light powers? I can think of 20 reasons why it would be impossible, but any theories?

Well, staying in orbit doesnt defy any physics, its just very unlikely. As for Spherus Magna, it's even more of a stretch but it is still possible if he got shot at it with the right angle and velocity.

Well, he had to be at an angle or else he always fly away or get pulled back to the planet. There must be some horizontal velocity or he will just be going straight up and down. Messing with gravitonal interactions is tricky and entirely theoretical. We dont even know if gravitons are real or not, so its not that fun theorizing about that. And for umbra, i imagined his light form would be a laser. If he just turned into a ball of light, no doubt he would roast the planet, but if he was a laser all that energy would be focused. Granted, it would still be difficult to deal with, but better than an explosion.

I warned you! Lol

I just ran the numbers for the Lehvak-kal problem. If he created an entire vacumn above his head and angled himself at 45 degrees, he would leave the atmosphere at about 32783 meters per second, which would actually throw him away from the planet entirely. However, he didn't have to use a pure vacumn, which would decrease his exit speed allowing him to fall in orbit. But there is no doubt that Lehvak kal has the ability to shoot himself into orbit. I love the Higgs explanation, but you could give a target more mass just by giving them energy. If you give a target 90 megajoules of energy in any way, their mass will increase by 1 microgram.

This one should be pretty simple, using only classical physics. I'll have to estimate a few of the numbers, though.

Now now, let's not start a war here. Let's just all be glad that we can watch Tahu lavaboard just like he did in his glory days

Well, he has 47, so which one do you want to start with? Oooh, gravity control! This one might take a while. I'll try to write it up tomorrow.

It could be the recoil from his weapon, but it's still a bit of a stretch. Cartoon logic; sometimes you have to throw away physics to make something look cool.

Time and time again, we have heard Greg say how real-life physics do not apply to the world of Bionicle, but what if they did? What would the real-life implications be of controlling things like light, gravity, or even time? Can it even be done? Basically, ask a question about a power or event in Bionicle, and I (or anyone else who would like to join in) will explain why it is or isn't possible. Think of this as the Mythbusters for Bionicle. Be warned, though, there will be a LOT of heavy science here. To start off, let's talk about one of Umbra's powers. Umbra has the ability to turn himself into a beam of light, is this even possible? Actually, it is. Thanks to Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2, matter can freely turn into energy. The way this is done in real life is by making a piece of matter touch a piece of antimatter. The two cancel each other out, and all that's left is energy in the form of light. Although Umbra doesn't seem to be carrying around a large sack of antimatter with him, we can give that to advanced technology. The real trouble comes when he is a beam of light. Einstein (again, smart guy) says that anything traveling at the speed of light can not experience time. For a particle of light (a photon), its entire journey would be happening all at once. If we were to look at light-beam Umbra, we would see him frozen in a single moment of time, so he would have no control over the light. He would have to plan out his entire journey, start to finish, before he turned into light by aiming himself in just the right direction. Not that efficient in battle, but still possible. Given that he has successfully turned himself into a beam of light and aimed himself in the right direction, he now has to turn back, and this is the tricky part. Although light can turn back into matter, it's very difficult. There is a machine called the photon-photon collider that can actually do this by shining two very powerful beams of light at each other. If any of the photons collide, it will create a piece of matter and antimatter. So if Umbra wanted to turn back into his old self, he would have to fire himself into a very, VERY advanced version of this machine. So in all, Umbra's power to turn himself into light and back again is technically possible, but very difficult. Although taking a small piece of matter, turning it into a beam of light, and turning it back again can and has been done, doing that for something the size of Umbra is near impossible. Still, who knows what technology the Great Beings have?

Light warps around heavy objects. During a solar eclipse, you can actually see the stars behind the Sun. Because of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, time moves slower for things near heavy objects. This means that the clocks inside GPS satellites tick slightly faster than clocks do here on Earth. Rods, a type of photoreceptor in your eyes, work well in low light but do not respond to color. This is why we can only see in black and white when we are in the dark. There is an unbarred spiral galaxy 28 million light-years away named the Sombrero Galaxy. Dark matter is an invisible yet massive form of matter that holds galaxies together. What dark matter exactly is, however, is unknown. Nothing can travel through space faster than the speed of light. However, space itself can stretch and expand with no set speed limit.

Its so funny seeing you all react to the baby protector! He is well done, though. I wonder if we will see any from the other tribes.

I'm really glad that they made destiny a big part of the story. I wonder if they will say the phrase "unity, duty, and destiny" even just as a quick reference.

Are you gonna say that for all the Takanuvas of all the altverses? Also, donning Avohkii isn't the only way of becoming the toa of light. Also, does donning Avohkii prevent you from using other masks? Well, yes. Otherwise, it would be a different Toa that just happened to have the same name and element. I suppose they could have had an Avohkii but replaced it with a different mask before Makuta came, but I don't think anyone would want to give up their legendary mask of light.

If they wore different masks, then how are they Takanuva? Takua would have never turned into Takanuva without that mask, it's kind of his most defining feature.

I'll go for that they wore them, but didn't use them. It would be very difficult to get new masks for every last shadow Takanuva, and the image of a black Avohkii looks very cool in my mind. Even though the power wouldn't change, I still assume the shape and color would change, as it did for 2008 Takanuva.

So can we say that the mask didn't change, but they just didn't use it?

Time travel to the future is very possible, but not to the past. That would break causality and give a lot of historians nightmares.

I guarantee that is not what brought this about.I believe it is, although Lego will never have the guts to admit it. Its the FANS who kept Bionicle alive during the dark times.Trust us, it's not. Even if the fanbase disappeared, it would probably still be coming back. Bionicle sold well, it was a business decision.

Not true. The only thing that would vary from universe to universe are constants such as the cosmological constant. These universes exist collectively in one large "multiverse," hence the name. so is there a universe where I'm Batman? If the multiverse theory is correct, then yes. The multiverse theory says that anything that can happen, does happen. But the majority of the multiverse would just be chaotic and lethal gibberish.

Well, in the Melding universe, Teridax gained light powers, and although his mask turned gold it still retained all shadow powers. Given this, I think we can assume that the Mask of Light would turn black, but would retain all of its light powers.

Not true. The only thing that would vary from universe to universe are constants such as the cosmological constant. These universes exist collectively in one large "multiverse," hence the name.