I'm going to go ahead and continue the discussion with you...


Of course there are limits. Gravity is a force, after all. And if gravitational forces can be countered only up to a certain limit, then the same will apply to other forces.
For example, think of a very very heavy truck. A strong channeler can use a weave of air and push it along, right? But can Sorliea do the same with a very weak thread of air? Obviously, no.
Similarly, look at the air shields used to protect against lightning. Since lightning bolts are secondary effects of the One Power, there is no actual OP in them. If non-OP forces cannot penetrate shields of air, the flimsiest of shields woven by the weakest fo channelers should be able to protect against lightning from the strongest of channelers. Obviously, this is not true.

RJ's answer was that non-OP forces cannot destroy OP weaves. That makes sense since OP weaves seem to be some kind of non-diffusable energy field. Earthen forces like gravity have a very tiny effect on diffusable energy like light, so it makes sense that the OP is not affected.

But this doesn't mean that the effect created by the weave can withstand any force. Look at Siuan lifting Bryne. She couldn't, because she was too weak. But her weave did not break, it just did not have the intended effect.

Same with Siuan's sword of air. She says it is strong as most steel, but that still means it is not indestructible!

Again, with stopping armies. If it was as simple as making a really thin folm of Air, which no one can pass through, any Aes Sedai, even Daigian, could simply weave one and place it front of an attacking army, and there, the war is ended.

Obviously, it doesn't work that way.

Another bit of proof. Egwene says that wards that stop sound are not made to stop anything as solid as a body. The implication is that the ward works by preventing air from moving through it. When a person moves across such a ward, the weave doesn't break, but they don't even feel anything resisting their passage, because obviously the ward is not strong enough.

I think the same will be the case here. With the vast forces in play, the weave will stay, but will no longer be able to have the intended effect.

The force is actually not 1 atmosphere, but one atmosphere into the area of the Gateway. And one pascal is 1 Newton per meter square.
The forces faced are much greater than you think, however, since the fluid flow here is not just influenced by a difference in pressure, but also by the low temperature and gravity in outer space.

When you consider water going into space, the fact that it will vaporize in the low pressure of space is also a factor to consider.

Lastly, Rand did not make a direct Gateway to Dragonmount. He skimmed. So we don't know what kind of breeze he would have created had he Traveled there.


This was never a problem, as far as I was concerned. But what happens when a Gateway is opened into outer space from below the sea? Even a cuendillar cage is useless, because the whole cage will be sucked out.


Of course, the problem with this is that water will be sucked out at a rate much larger than ten liters per second. Also, Shannow spoke of multiple Gateways to achieve this.

Nope. We see the cold wind from Seanchan enter Rand's room in tFOH. We've snow come through, as well as rain, I think.


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