Decanter of Endless Water

[Twowolves]

You can't do that anyway. Magic breaks conservation of energy so bad that the universe should have collapsed 0.000000001 seconds after it was created.

Except, that only applies to closed systems. The planes are proof the Prime Material Plane is not a closed system.


Only somewhat on topic, an old mental exercise I remember was trying to figure out what happened when you put a Sphere of Anihilation on the bottom of the ocean...

 

[Jack Simth]

You can't do that anyway. Magic breaks conservation of energy so bad that the universe should have collapsed 0.000000001 seconds after it was created.

Just try to ignore the bits that make no sense. It's magic.

Magic doesn't need to break Conservation; it just seems to. That energy can be coming from somewhere - an AMF denies the flow to most such magic from wherever it originates.

Besides, you can't have a universe without breaking either conservation of energy or entropy utterly anyway.

1) Conseraction of energy -> The energy present at time T had to be present at time T-1. T is an arbitrary point in time, 1 is an arbitrary unit of time. You can replace T with T-1 at whim, and thus demonstrate that the energy of the universe must be an infinity old under conservation of energy.
2) Entropy -> The total energy at time T is "less orderly" than the total energy at T-1. Again, T is an arbitrary point in time, 1 is an arbitrary unit of time. You can replace T with T-1 at whim, and thus demonstrate that the energy of the universe must be less orderly now than at any previous point in time.

Combining the two, you have a problem - after an infinite period of time, with order constantly decreasing, there should be negligible order left to the energy...... yet the universe exists, and has a non-negligible amount of order to it's energy.....

Breaking either 1 or 2 permits a universe to exist (there are a couple of other work-arounds) but you pretty much have to break the laws of physics as they're known to have a universe anyway, so......

 

[Cheiromancer]

Only somewhat on topic, an old mental exercise I remember was trying to figure out what happened when you put a Sphere of Anihilation on the bottom of the ocean...

I had a theory that Spheres of Annihilation were psionic devices; their size is subjective, and is always the size of the brain of the entity who might be affected by the sphere. They pass right through unattended objects, but sentient beings get sucked in. And smart creatures (like people) would see insects and such apparently flying through the "event horizon" without getting sucked in.

In this theory, nothing particular would happen to a SoA at the bottom of the ocean- at least, no vortex would form as the water got sucked away.

 

[Hawkson]

how much water does the decanter produce in cubic feet?

also, what other cool utility items are out there that you know of?

 

[Jack Simth]

how much water does the decanter produce in cubic feet?

In gyeser mode, it produces 30 gallons/round, a little over 4 cubic feet per round.

In fountain mode, it produces 5 gallons/round, or about 2/3rds of a cubic foot per round.

In stream mode, it produces 1 gallon/round, or about... well, 0.13 cubic feet per round.