#crawling back to when I worked for cern's cms and looking my awful post-doc dimitry in the eye and going

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oooooh your questions are making me so happy you don't even know. I've been bouncing up and down about this one since I saw it (literally! I had to remove myself from my flatmates and go to my room and go :):):):):)). These are really good questions omgg

So how I think of the whole synesthetic versus non thing; to me it's kinda like someone getting a headache when a storm's coming in versus being able to actually see the pressure gradients. They're both valid ways of sensing the world around you, but one gives a lot more information than the other! I think everyone can sense animaic waves to some extent, it's just a question of what that extent is- people who can see/hear the full animaic spectrum are synesthetic, while everyone else is stuck with a very basic understanding. so people do have a sixth sense that's tied to the waves, a little like eyesight, but for most it's not, like, actively attached to a different sense, and it doesn't really make a difference in how they perceive the world versus in how we do.

Amplitude only applies to light! I think the two spectrums are very closely related. my other thought is that lowering your amplitude literally makes you less 'sensed' - that sixth sense is probably best on picking up amplitudes as opposed to frequencies (synesthetics can do amplitudes AND frequencies, however), and lower amplitude makes you less visible to the brain. I think there's an average amp that most things have, and deviations from that average tend to need to be intentional.

one function CAN neutralize/destabilize another, and that is wavefunction collapse, you nailed it!! well, I think that's what it's called, but in reality it's very different from quantum wavefunction collapse, which idk how much you remember but that's a probability collapse, not a destabilization of the whole wavelength.

in this case, high energy light can destabilize a wavelength, perturbing it! this is NOT the real life definition of perturbing a wave, but the idea here would be the frequency would begin to wobble back and forth, so you'd have an oscillating frequency. I think this would spiral, oscillating more and more until it just turns into something that isn't quite a wave and turns you into probably something a little body-horror esque, changing the state of matter in your body entirely.

I think small perturbations in wavelength, ones that don't oscillate, are normal. I also think wavelength frequencies tend to evolve a little over time! but sudden shifts in frequency are REALLY bad for you, and can have both physical and mental side effects.

on a cool physics side note, I think, being similar to EM waves, animaic waves might follow a corruption of maxwell's equations! This would be REALLY interesting, because it implies that certain types of E or B fields could actually affect one's wavelength! this is assuming that whatever a wavelength is made out of is charged, though, and I'm not sure it is. (the wikipedia page on electromagnetic radiation is super interesting for thinking about this hehe)

are animaic waves a particle-wave like photons are? or are they just pure waves? if they resemble EM at a high frequency, then you'd think they'd have to be both. maybe the standard model of this u has a fifth boson! Just some food for thought for you :3 I'm not sure of many of these answers myself, but I think it's something I'd like to figure out heheh. I am going into astro-HEP, so maybe someday I'll find someone much smarter than me who can answer some of these questions >:3. I love thinking about stuff like this, so ty for coming on this thought experiment with me!

tldr; I have no idea about the real physics and math but I think these are an uncharged particle-wave that uses some sort of mysterious new particle in the standard model? maybe the vibrations between atoms in idle matter emit these! However, I do want these waves to correlate a little bit with the memory of an object (it's literal path through time I think), so what if it was a particle that got emitted just as matter traverses through time? that wasn't a tldr but it WAS a game theory from yours truly. I like. need to get back to actual e/m for real XDD but yeah!

god send me to this u let me study the waves pLEASE

raising my hand politely. i would like to hear about sigma

heheheh. heheheh. heh. Guy who I am just So Normal about right now. So ty for asking! Anyways. This is sigma :3 (art done by the wonderful @alzheimersparrotroute go check them out! they do some really good one piece stuff but ANYWAYS)

and he's a little freak of nature! to talk about that I gotta talk about how this u works heheh so here's a tldr:

in this world, matter is made out of/emits something called 'animaic waves', colloquially known as soulwaves

certain types of matter emit wavelengths at certain frequencies, basically. each element is made up of one wave at a certain frequency. one wave as in. just a sine wave that's all it is :3

things that are NOT just basic elements tend to emit more than one soulwave. well, that's a lie. they still only emit one, but the wave is a summation of a number of other waves. so, humans have seven component waveforms, that add together to form a summation wave.

google fourier series, that's what this is! I also actually made a little graph in desmos that gives an example of a three-wave fourier series (see here) (works best on pc). In this example, the black wave would be the 'summation wave'. Everything else would be components!

each human/thing has a slightly different summation waveform. the waves make the person. every one is unique. with some

everything has a prime number of component waveforms. this is a rule of nature. primes are stable.

god I sure hope nobody comes around and fucks that fundamental law of physics up

jk guess who. it's my boy. my wonderful son. remember how I said that humans have seven component waves + a summation? sigma has fourteen. woah sig why does mom let YOU have double the amount of component waves

well. that's because not that long ago, two people, one Wren Laplace and one Del Clarke fucked up very badly. This whole story takes place during a "semi-apocalypse" where life is still going on as normally as it possibly can, but roughly two years back these creatures called Ianis began to appear from a rift in-between dimensions and kill people by tearing apart their waveforms. wren was trying to stop this, del was actually working for the government in an attempt to learn more about what caused this to begin with. both ended up at two separate copies of a machine built back in the 40s that was powered by an ancient alien relic. things went very wrong. wren and del died that day, but their waveforms lived on...

fun sigma facts:

when sigma first wakes up it's impaled by a branch and without any memories! well, almost without memories. he somehow knows a LOT of basic societal information and random facts. this is somehow worse than total amnesia.

this man is disassociating CONSTANTLY and this only gets worse throughout the course of the story

literally JUST finished making this venn diagram of likes between him, wren and del so now I'm forcing you all to see it too <3

uh yeah! that's my guy :3 thank you all for listening!! and I am always very open to questions about the plot/other characters, literally I've been rotating this man around in my head nonstop since december it's really bad XD