LIMITATIONS:
- Flight – Cannot fly faster than 48 kph/30 mph.
- Speed – Cannot move faster than the speed of sound or run on penetrable surfaces (e.g., water). Super speed is not restricted to running.
- Telekinesis – Cannot lift more than 2,270 kilograms/5,000 pounds. Cannot use power on your own body.
- Invisibility – Must be conscious to remain invisible. Your clothes become invisible when you do.
Telekinesis is a lot more versatile than people make it out to be. Yeah sure I lift heavy things with mind but also I can
- nuclear fusion and fission (depending on the amount of force I can inact and its precision)
- pull air from a room or someone
- use pinpoint force to shatter and break things
- fly by lifting something below me (if you want to allow that)
- compress gasses into a liquid or liquids into a solid, possibly also weather control
- heat objects by rapidly moving their molecules (if you allow that sort of precision) therefore allowing for combustion as well
- call lightning by manipulating ions in the atmosphere
- possible light manipulation and production if you moved electrons up and down energy levels or rapidly heat certain materials
- hell you could do fire bending if you compress the oxygen and add some sort of powdered fuel then heat it
- create magnetic fields by compressing and aligning electrons in a substance
- fucking compress air to make the sharpest blade known to man and use it as a wind shear or just throw telekinesis sharpened metal at people idk
- you could fuck people up if there is even enough dust in the air, just use telekinesis to hold the dust in place. Guarantee you they can’t beat 22,246N of force, so suddenly all those tiny particles cannot be moved by them.
Most of these ideas can also be used for strictly non combative purposes but I think if combat when I think of superpowers. With enough understanding of the world around you very subtle manipulations that require very little amounts of force/energy when done rapidly in combination with each other can have drastic effects.
Telekinesis is an absurd power if you don’t put enough limitations on it
22,246N is a lot of force if you use it right. Granted I have not done the math on this because I don’t feel like it but I guarantee that some of these would be possible and even 1 would be absurd. I would give a no to nuclear fusion though, probably not that.
You forgot the best part: grab something when you’re too lazy to get up and get it or after you just sat down and realized that you need something across the room.
You’re so right
Use telekinesis to make a carpet fly, bend the light waves around it to cloak it and ride it. There, you are fast as hell, flying and pretty much invisible.
It would probably take a lot of concentration but it wouldn’t be impossible. Good luck seeing where you are going without the photons though. I’m certain you could let some in but it would be very difficult to stop them from bouncing back out at that point.
Pretty much everything you mentioned falls under the OP “hella kinesis”.
Telekinesis is being able to levitate cookies and small cats.
Quantum physics forbid any of these perks. You’ll be limited to macroscopic matter manipulation.
Id love to hear your reasoning for why quantum forbids these. Sure knowing the exact location of a electron an enacting a force upon it would be difficult but as long as you don’t care about its velocity in that moment it isn’t impossible. In fact you could get the probability to be quite high. Hell it even acts as a particle when you’re looking at it.
Furthermore there are plenty of workarounds for causing these effects without direct manipulation of the electron or any quantum level physics for that matter. You just need to find a way to create the natural conditions required macroscopically which is typically possible.
With the exception of photon manipulation
Actually, knowing the exact position of an electron is imposible.
And not because of the uncertainty principle. It’s simpler than that.
Jesus. You said angry. /s
And here I was just going to use telekinesis to manipulate the ball in a game of roulette.
I’m a physics major and my passion for it started from overanalyzing superpowers. I was always super frustrated by how underutilized telekinesis was.
There was this book when I was a kid called quantum league that looking back was just pretty ok and not super scientifically perfect but it placed the idea of using telekinesis in an atomic sense. I don’t think it ever got a sequel because I remember being frustrated that it clearly left on a cliff hanger and I’d check every year only to be disappointed.
I just checked and it still doesn’t have a sequel
Do you have any other book recommendations? Although I dislike the trope of the application of actual scientific knowledge, as characters get very OP very quickly, I love seeing characters using yhe scientific method to figure out what they can or can’t do.
Quantum League
I looked up the book description, and a strong sense of deja vu hit me at the word “actuator”… I think I’ve read this book before.
Currently reading Industrial Strength magic by Macronomicon, and it scratches this itch for me, but waiting for chapter updates, even when daily, is so painful.
Two of the other powers are in some ways worse than not having powers. Flying slower than you can drive a car is pretty pointless unless in extremely nice situations. Then running near the speed of soud could cause you permanent damage to the ears or eyes just from pushing through the air.
Invisibility is fine but mostly useful for nefarious purposes. But theoretically you could get a form or invisibility through telekinesis if you can control photons. You probably wouldn’t be able to see or hold it as long without suffocating but it’s something.
Yeah but they said the speed thing isn’t limited to just running so you could probably piss at nearly the speed of sound which is pretty cool except for the possible urethral obliteration. Assuming that doesn’t happen then it’d be pretty cool
urethral obliteration
Are we still calling out band names?
lower right - the ability to use public transportation.
This is it. The hero we need, but not the one we deserve
What if God was one of us?
Another question: Does the use of these super powers tire you out?
I can run 5km in 20 mins. Will running 5km in 2 seconds make me as tired, or no effort from my end? The same goes with the other powers, will I be tired from a whole day of sitting invisible in a women’s locker room, or from ripping people’s clothes off with my mind? Will that tiredness mean I need to eat more, or the potential that I accidentally become visible again mid-robbery?
How about the power of flight? That’s levitation, Homes…
How bout the power to kill a yak from 200 yards away… With mind bullets! That’s telekinesis…
How bout the power… To move you
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Telekinesis. I just lift a cushion I’m sitting on and I also have flight.
Let not forget that any of those choices would make you instantly and legaly rich, except maybe for super speed since that is a purely physical trait.
The speed restriction on flight is way to harsh for it to be useful. You basically have the ability to fly but are still going to be late for work.
Superspeed is neat, but there are too many unknown factors to this power. Are you immune to damage while running or will hitting a single fly at almost Mach 1 kill you? What about agility, do you have inertia or can you turn or stop on a dime? Do you move normaly while everything else is in slow motion, or do you have to react to things coming at you at Mach 1 in real time? Do you have to consume an insane amount of calories to speed up or is it just magic? Can you still breath normally or will the air rushing past you nostrils make your lungs collapse? This power justbseems to be and accident waiting to happen.
Invisibility is solid. As side from the obvious pervy things you can do, you could be an insanely good journalist. Exposing corporate or goverment fraud by basically being a fly on the wall in closed door meetings. But since no light is hitting your retinas when you are invisible, you would be essentially blind during invisibility. This curbs this power a lot.
Telekinesis is the obvious choice. 2 tons is a lot of weight to lift. And there are no restrictions on how many or how small the things you can manipulate can be. You could be the worlds best mechanic. Taking apart an engine by turning all the screws simultaneously, exploding it into all components, replacing the broken one and putting it all together withing seconds. And this is only one of the many things you could do, to make use of your power. Basically any physical labor or craftsmanship you could do better, safer, faster and cheaper than anyone else. Not even counting the self serving advantages.As a bonus you could potentially fly with Telekinesis as well, by just standing on a platform and moving it up with your mind.
I think telekinesis is the way to go.
- You can only fly so high before the cold or lack of oxygen get you.
- Poo is technically not part of me, so you’d see shit floating around when the rest of me is invisible.
- Speed is only good until you need to turn, and i see no mention of an adamantium skeletal system.
- Moving all kinds of shit with my mind? I’ll be over here not jerking off with this empty velvet glove
Telekinesis. It’s not even a context
Telekinesis (especially at the “multiple tons” level) is an extremely flexible tool, a weapon, and a defense. There’s an endless amount of creative stuff you can do with it.
It can also still be used somewhat discreetly which is important.
Flight would probably be the most fun, though.
Telekinesis, imagine what fun sex could be with a consenting partner. Probably a limit on distance, but until there…
Also, inner mechanisms of locks and vaults.
With telekinesis, I could technically both fly and have super speed by telekinetically launching myself places. So I’d go with that.
This is explicitly forbidden. Breaking fictional things is always trivial. Doing so is virtually never interesting.
You might want to read the post.
Nothing stops him from picking up his own clothes
Or jumping on a platform and floating it op didn’t think it through
Magic carpet ride
Earthbending
Telekinesis, for sure.
Even if you can’t use it on your own body, it’ll work against the ground. And 5,000 pounds of thrust will get you going pretty fast. So that covers both flight and speed.
Or does telekinesis make me gain 5,000 pounds? If so, then maybe flight. lol
Most depections of telekinesis do not exert an opposing force on the user, in other words the force is exerted in an arbitrary vector from an arbitrary point in space. That means you could compress a hole in the ground under you but not levitate at all because the force doesn’t act on your body. If it did act on your body lifting 5000 lb would crush your bones to dust.
As other people have pointed out a better option is the “magic carpet ride” or more desirable “flying motocycle” angle, where you Exert force on an object and it moves you as it normally would when pushed or pulled by any other force. I personally like the “infinite parasailing/paragliding” angle as it is possible to do without immediately being noticeable as strange by the public, and it requires less mental effort since you are still using lift for upforce.
Invisibility - bank robbing, free movies, tasting expensive food right in the kitchen, hiding from people I know in the grocery store that I don’t want to talk to, ect.
hiding from people I know in the grocery store that I don’t want to talk to, ect.
I thought I was sure I wanted telekinesis, but you make a compelling point.
You can grab the moisture in the air and arrange it so that you become effectively invisible to those around you.
Speed. Im true fan of flash. Btw what do you mean, you cant run on water? If you can reach speed of sound you can defenitely run on water
Kinda what I thought, like ok we’re suspending our disbelief for superpowers AND breaking the laws of physics?
I’d defs take telekinesis, I can’t lift myself but I can always just lift my clothes or something; and if I can lift 2270kg I could probs throw smaller things (ie my clothes (with me in them)) pretty quick.
Assuming current universe rules apply here is my order of preference. First 2 seem useful, do not see much practical use for other 2.
- Speed - Assumption is that my brain / eyes can comprehend the increased speed, otherwise this is a useless power. Primary use wouldn’t even be running although you could become a top marathon runner. You can do chores and learn much faster essentially allowing you to become better than everyone else and in a sense prolonging your life because you could experience all the same things faster than everyone else.
- Invisibility - You can do fun stuff. Seems like all of it would be unethical or illegal though, cannot imagine a use case that is not questionable besides hiding from someone you do not wish to meet.
- Telekinesis - You can also do fun stuff, but I have never thought I need to move something without touching it or wish I could move something really heavy. Good pickpocket and powerlifter skill.
- Flight - Almost useless in my opinion. It is a high profile power so you would probably get kidnapped and experimented on by someone quite quickly unless you just use this to hover in your room which admittedly would be cool.
Except if current universe rules apply speed would be useless. You’d die from over heating either from the energy created from moving your body faster or the compression of air molecules as you move through them (think asteroids and space ships re- entering)
