>>29817316>>29851052ON THE VITUBIUM PARTICLE
This text includes illustrations of vitubium particles. Do note that these are NOT WHAT A VITUBIUM PARTICLE LOOKS LIKE they are merely useful illustrations for the purposes of describing how a vitubium particle bonds with magic quanta.
>VitubiumVitubium is a substance composed of particles that can bond with magic quanta. Whether vitubium is an atom, or some exotic particle, I do not know, it could be either, as the exact nature of vitubium is not actually that important for the purposes of this explanation.
Whatever it is, vitubium exhibits the following qualities:
>1. The ability to bond with mundane matter in some way, including but not necessarily limited to, covalent bonding (molecules), Ionic bonding (salts), and metallic bonding (metals).>2. The ability to bond with magic quanta.>3. A vitubium particle has a limited amount of magic quanta it can bond with.>4. As a result of 1. and 2., the ability to interact with the vitium field and the physical realm, and as a result, the entirety of the superreality.>5. Vitubium has mass>6. Vitubium behaves like a fermion, aka, ordinary matter, protons, atoms and such. This means that vitubium cannot be in a superposition with itself.Definitions:
I shall call a vitubium particle that has bonded with no magic quanta an "empty vitubium particle".
https://files.catbox.moe/qec9v7.pngI shall call a vitubium particle that has bonded with some magic quanta, but has not been filled with them a "partially filled vitubium particle".
https://files.catbox.moe/g2b7dt.pngI shall call a vitubium paricle that has been filled with magic quanta a "full vitubium particle".
https://files.catbox.moe/9p9bk2.pngEach vitubium particle can hold a limited number, and limited energy, of magic quanta. This number does not have to be 8 as shown in the above illustrations, they are meant to be simplifications, but 8 is also a nice number to work with.
Magic quanta are stable when bonded with vitubium particles, and vitubium particles "attract" magic quanta to a certain extent, while magic quanta "repel" other magic quanta to a certain extent. The emptier a vitubium particle is, the more likely it is to capture a nearby magic quanta and bond with it (hereinafter, "vitubium acceptance"), and on the reverse, the more filled a vitubium particle is, the less likely it is to capture and bond with nearby unbonded magic quanta, and more likely it is to release already bonded magic quanta (hereinafter, "vitubium release"). A full vitubium particle cannot bond with new magic quanta, even if flooded with them, it rejects them (hereinafter, "vitubium rejection").
Rejection:
https://files.catbox.moe/2535uc.pngRelease:
https://files.catbox.moe/eridob.pngAcceptance:
https://files.catbox.moe/zpouxt.pngRejection, Release, and Acceptance are all probabilistic.
An empty vitubium particle, when coming into contact with a magic quanta, only bonds with it with a certain % chance, which is not 100%. Logically of course, an empty vitubium particle has a 0% chance of releasing a magic quanta.
A partially filled vitubium particle has a % chance to both accept, or release a magic quanta. Neither of these are 100% or 0%. The probability of the vitubium particle to reject a magic quanta is naturally 100% - Acceptance%.
A full vitubium particle has a certain % chance to release a magic quanta, and this % chance is not 100% (at any given moment of time). A full vitubium particle has a 0% chance to accept a magic quanta, and a 100% chance to reject a magic quanta.
The act of using a glyph or an activator substance on vitubium particles essentially skews these percentages. When in use, the probability of the particle to accept magic quanta lowers, and the probability of the particle to release and reject magic quanta grow. These still remain as probabilities, meaning that even in use the release of any single magic quanta is technically not certain. This poses no problem on a macro scale, due to how statistical physics work. What this means is that the smaller your circuit becomes, the less reliable it is, as now the actions of single magic quanta can meaningfully affect your circuitry, while on a macro scale the magic quanta behave not as individual particles, but as a cloud of magic quanta gas, sort of.
Note: When im referring to "small circuits" here, im referring to circuitry that are composed of say, less than a 100 vitubium particles. As long as you are able to see your circuitry without needing an STM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope for it, your circuitry is reliable, and the probabilistic nature of vitubium and the magic quanta should not affect you, outside of incredibly unlikely freak events.
Next, to observe how magic quanta behave in a substance composed of vitubium.
