D&D 5E Levitate is a save-or-die spell

[Guest 6801328]

How fast would a Mage Hand spell push you, given it normally couldn't move anything which weighs more than 5'?

Ooooh....classic example of how you should keep your physics terms straight.

Weightless does not mean mass-less, but of course the mage hand spell specifies weight.

Per RAW, mage hand could move the planet.

Interesting.

 

[Maxperson]

Ooooh....classic example of how you should keep your physics terms straight.

Weightless does not mean mass-less, but of course the mage hand spell specifies weight.

Per RAW, mage hand could move the planet.

Interesting.

NASA has estimated the weight of our planet and says it weighs about 100 trillion trillion pounds. While I have no idea how much any given setting planet would weigh, I'm confident that it is more than Mage Hand's 5 pound limit.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-solar-system/planet-weights.html

 

[Guest 6801328]

NASA has estimated the weight of our planet and says it weighs about 100 trillion trillion pounds. While I have no idea how much any given setting planet would weigh, I'm confident that it is more than Mage Hand's 5 pound limit.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-solar-system/planet-weights.html

Never took intro physics, huh?

 

[Maxperson]

Never took intro physics, huh?

So you weigh nothing?

 

[jaelis]

So you weigh nothing?

On Earth I weigh about 165 lbs. On the moon I weigh about 28 lbs. On Mars I weigh about 62 lbs. I have no idea how much I weigh on a dnd world while I'm being levitated.

 

[Oofta]

So you weigh nothing?

Where is the poster? On earth he may weigh 150 lbs. On Mars he'd weigh 57 lbs. On Jupiter that would be 37,920 lbs.

Weight is relative. Mass on the other hand, remains constant.

 

[Maxperson]

Where is the poster? On earth he may weigh 150 lbs. On Mars he'd weigh 57 lbs. On Jupiter that would be 37,920 lbs.

Weight is relative. Mass on the other hand, remains constant.

Sure, sure. Unless Mars were to be stolen by another star, in which case while it's mass remains constant, it's weight would change. Assuming the new star has a different mass anyway and therefore different gravitational pull. Planets have weight as well as mass.

Edit: Planetary mass doesn't remain constant, by the way. We're constantly being bombarded by space dust and meteors. The additional mass isn't all that noticeable, but it's there. The Earth gains about 40 tons of mass a year.

 

[borg286]

Can we all take a moment and laugh at ourselves? Gentle reminder that this is just a game. It is a 2nd level spell, and I doubt that we would be able to apply this level of physics when the game is a simulation of reality, reduced to have fun. At some point the simulationist has to give way to the narrativist. If a breeze pushing the ogre away is cool, it is likely to take effect.

 

[jaelis]

Sure, sure. Unless Mars were to be stolen by another star, in which case while it's mass remains constant, it's weight would change. Assuming the new star has a different mass anyway and therefore different gravitational pull. Planets have weight as well as mass.

Edit: Planetary mass doesn't remain constant, by the way. We're constantly being bombarded by space dust and meteors. The additional mass isn't all that noticeable, but it's there. The Earth gains about 40 tons of mass a year.

Actually, since planets are orbiting the sun they are weightless, just like an astronaut orbiting the earth.

 

[Guest 6801328]

Sure, sure. Unless Mars were to be stolen by another star, in which case while it's mass remains constant, it's weight would change. Assuming the new star has a different mass anyway and therefore different gravitational pull. Planets have weight as well as mass.

Nope.

A mass in orbit around another mass, or in free-fall toward it, has no weight. That's the meaning of....wait for it....weightless.

You can think of weight as essentially "fighting against another body's gravitational field." You are always trying to fall toward the earth. When you bump into the earth, that push...that force...you feel is your weight. If you insert a scale in between you and the earth, it measures the strength of that force.