A lesser god looks up from where He stands near the base of Pharasma's Spire, that is the foundation of the Great Beyond; He has passed in a flash by distant suns and the surface layers of planes, and hidden away encapsulated strangelets and other catastrophes, whose dead-man triggers are in Golarion where prophecy is shattered; and near about the base of Pharasma's Spire there are now hidden the frozen potentia of thunderbolt singularities and relativistic death waves, true-vacuums and single-quarks and assorted other kinds of physics disaster—
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reductionism 101
what's a physics? does it give xp?
Keltham
Golarion
Um.
What's a 'singularity'?
dath ilan
A gravitational singularity is a discontinuity in spacetime typically caused by an infinite energy density, such as inside a black hole—
Golarion
A black hole, or singularity, forms when a dying star collapses with such gravitational force that it breaks through the planes and creates a gash in space—
dath ilan
Yeah! That thing!*
(*Given your general tech level, we'll forgive a little imprecision here and there.)
dath ilan
No.
dath ilan
What. No, seriously, what?
—okay, your stars don't run on nuclear fusion. We now have additional questions.
Golarion
Look, there's a spell called Interplanetary Teleport, I don't know why you expected general relativity to apply.
dath ilan
You have black holes!!
(This is, actually, one of the things Keltham checked before initiating a physics-based plan to destroy local reality.)
More generally, most ways to not have a causal speed limit don't look like Interplanetary Teleport, they look like not having a coherent concept of space at all. Your universe looks suspiciously like dath ilan's universe with a few hacks bolted on top for one that apparently isn't that at all.
Golarion
Sceaduinars form spontaneously and fully grown from the geometrical errors in the crystalline knots in the Void, where the negative energy concentration is greatest. Unlike nearly every creature in existence, their creation has nothing to do with positive energy, and their soulstuff is made from negative energy. Due to their divorce from Creation's Forge, sceaduinars are completely incapable of creating anything. They can guide natural processes, like the growth of spheres of annihilation, but never truly invent.3
dath ilan
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Golarion
Although they are created from pure entropy, the areas near a sceaduinar's home are among the few places stable enough to sustain outside life.5
dath ilan
WHAT WHAT NO THAT IS NOT HOW ANYTHING WORKS
dath ilan
We're beginning to suspect that, rather than merely having different physics, y'all simply don't know what the ass words mean.
Golarion
The Negative Energy Plane is full of perfect crystals of pure entropy!
dath ilan
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
dath ilan
Okay. Okay. If, hypothetically, your universe had a neighboring brane with a lower vacuum energy density, it might make sense to call that the "negative" "energy" "plane", and any ordinary matter brought there would spontaneously decay, which might have lead you to claim that the true-vacuum contains "pure entropy" if you only sort of understand what entropy is.
So, then, if Keltham creates a rift to the Negative Energy Plane not enclosed by an event horizon, it should trigger bubble nucleation—
Otolmens
Patched in beta 0.14. We had a little bit of a hiccup the first time someone tried out the 'undead' mechanic, but that's fixed now.