KKC Theory WikiThe 'Weight' of Desire Is Gravity Manipulation Across Dimensions
Bast and Auri's 'weight of desire' is gravity manipulation; the moon's phases reflect it being pulled between mortal and Fae.
Also involves: Bast, Auri, Iax, The Boy Who Stole the Moon, The Lackless Box, The Doors of Stone, Elxa Dal
The theory§
This theory proposes that the 'weight' Bast and Auri invoke when describing the force of desire is literal gravity, and that the magic of Temerant is at root gravitational manipulation. It reads Jax stealing the moon in Hespe's tale as Jax pulling the moon toward himself by force of attraction, and explains the moon's phases as the consequence of the lunar sphere being drawn between the mortal world and the Fae, the latter treated as a fourth, spacetime dimension. Because part of the sphere lies in the Fae at any given time, only a crescent or partial face is visible from Temerant, and the differing flow of time between worlds becomes time dilation rather than literal time manipulation. The argument links the 'secret place where three roofs meet' that sheltered Kvothe in Tarbean to a corresponding meeting-point in the sky or Fae, and extends to reading the Lackless box and the Doors of Stone as electromagnetic anti-gravity devices, with Elxa Dal's brazier demonstration of fire leaping between iron stands offered as a pendulum-like image of energy oscillating between two points.
Evidence§
The weight of their desire, both Bast and Auri. They're manipulating gravity. … It isn't time manipulation, it's time dilation, a byproduct.
OP's core claim: the 'weight' of desire is literal gravity, time effects are a byproduct. — u/SmurphiliciousThat's how Jax stole the moon, he made the moon come to him. Gravity.
Reads Jax's moon-stealing as pulling the moon by gravitational attraction. — u/Smurphiliciouswhen the moon is being pulled between the mortal (3rd) and the Fae (4th) dimensions, you wouldn't see the whole sphere. Only part of it would be visible to us. … when the moon is only partially exposed as a crescent or what have you, it's because the rest of it is in the Fae.
Explains moon phases as the sphere being drawn partly into the Fae fourth dimension. — u/SmurphiliciousThe 4th dimension is spacetime. While in the Fae, Kvothe physically moves through time. … Kvothe spent *years* there possibly, but walked back out and it had only been three days in Temerant.
Recasts Fae time differences as relativistic time dilation from movement through spacetime. — u/Smurphiliciousthe wheel fell faster than gravity could account for. They would have noticed that it fell at an angle, almost as if it were drawn to the draccus.
OP cites book text of gravity behaving anomalously as supporting evidence. — u/SmurphiliciousGravity could be considered a manifestation of desire (the force of attraction inward). Desire is the more "fundamental" of the two. … desire/gravity is a form of energy which can be converted to other energy forms
Commenter refines the link, framing gravity as a manifestation of desire-as-energy. — u/en-theI remember a theory that "way" stones might actually be referring to "weigh" stone. … Wheigh stones may represent something like balance stones, like the fulcrum on which both worlds balance against each other.
Commenter adds wordplay evidence: waystones as 'weigh' stones balancing the two worlds. — u/ManofManyHillsPlease don't use relativity to explain things, when you don't actually have a grasp on relativity. It hurts.
CounterCounter: rejects the relativity/physics framing as misapplied. — u/_Random_Walker_
Book refs: NOTW, WMF
Tier reasoning§
fringe confirmed: imposes real-world physics on metaphorical text, highly speculative
Contributors§
- u/talentpipes11 — extended · 5 pts