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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3300024" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, it can't, but not for the reason you suggest.The plane of fire is really hot.  All the time.  It never however gets hotter, because being infinite in size, any finite amount of fire you added to it would make no difference on the whole.  The plane of radiance is really hot.  All of the time.  The plane of Positive Elemental Energy is a different kind of 'really hot' all the time.  There is an infinite amount of energy on the positive elemental plane.  On the negative elemental plane, there is an infinite amount of anti-energy. Yes, by the definition of work something has to happen.That follows from the above.Whoa there.  Hold your horses.  This is a universe in which 'heat' is an elemental concept.  Things get hot because fire atoms are added to their molecular structure.  In such a universe, it is not a universal truth that energy is always turned into 'heat'.  It happens alot (otherwise there would be no versimilitude), but energy can also turn into water, or stone, or air.  Heat is not the end state of such a universe.Or possibly too much water.  Ever thought about the effects of 'Eversmoking Bottles' and decanters that release an infinite amount of water?  What about the effects of disentegrate?  What happens when a being from the elemental plane of air opens up a gate and starts mining the prime for raw material for his palace?Yes.  The negative elemental plane 'sucks' energy from the other planes continually.  These planes become less positive as a result.  At the same time, the positive elemental plane is pouring energy into the planes, with a net result of making them more energetic.  The stronger that the negative elemental plane 'sucks', the more positive energy flows out of the positive elemental plane.  Conversely, the more positive elemental energy that accumulates, the stronger the elemental 'voltage' across the plane and the harder that the negative elemental plane sucks.I think you'll find that real world physics falls apart in the face of game concepts like infinite spaces, infinite distances, perpetual motion, four basic elements, heat as a substance not an energy, multiple diminsionalities in continual interface, 'gate' spells, and so forth.</blockquote>

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