Questioner 1
Lashing really hurts my mechanical, engineering brain because the math is off with your descriptions.
Brandon Sanderson
What do you mean?
Questioner 1
So, a full Lashing changes your gravitational pull, right?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah.
Questioner 1
Well if you were doing the math on that...
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah...
Questioner 1
...a full Lashing would be two times.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, yeah. That's just their shorthand. *interrupting questioner* It's just their shorthand. I'm fully aware of that.
Questioner 2
Drives him so mad!
Brandon Sanderson
Does it?
Questioner 1
I always see the statics *inaudible* in my head.
Brandon Sanderson
If it helps, in the third book where Bridge Four is practicing, they have an argument over that very point.
Questioner 1
Oh, do they?
Brandon Sanderson
So there are certain people who think the way you think.
Questioner 1
Uh-huh.
Brandon Sanderson
That a full Lashing should make you float.
Questioner 1
Mmm-- it's-- yeah.
Brandon Sanderson
Mhm. But it's-- when I wrote it that way it was so confusing for alpha readers and they thought a double lashing should make him go up double speed.
Questioner 2
*in the background* They're not as technical.
Brandon Sanderson
And so I figured Szeth doesn't have the mathematics background to have that argument. But you do get to have it in the next book.
Questioner 1
Yeah, okay. Every time I... *interrupted*
Brandon Sanderson
So there's at least an acknowledgement of it for you.
Questioner 2
Thanks Brandon.
Brandon Sanderson
So a full Lashing means double gravitational pull upward.