Hi, with the low traffic around here lately and my email from home finally
sort of working again, I thought I'd send out this question:
WARNING: If you haven't seen the first 8 episodes of the 2nd series or read
the novels and don't want spoilers, stop reading now!
By now I think a number of you have seen the subtitled episodes of the 2nd
series showing the big battle between Fortresses Iserlohn and Geiersburg. This
battle contains the neato physics component of the 2 fortresses getting close
together so their mutual gravity causes their liquid metal outer armor to flow
tidally more toward their facing sides, leaving the rear side with thinner
armor leaving it vulnerable to fleet attack.
Another LoGH physics fan here and I talked about this and tried to figure out
a calculation to model this and see how feasible this idea is. Kind of
pointless I know but we like these kinds of problems. But to really work it
out we'd need to know things like the approximate thickness of the liquid
layer and its density, and the total size and mass of the stations. There is
a little of this info in the anime but not enough.
What I am wondering is if any more of these details are described in the
novels. Or even in fact if the liquid layer idea is even in the novels at all
or if that is just an invention of the anime. Any info would be appreciated.
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