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Created page with "<div class="quote">Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Haroldosaur wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter wrote:<br /><d..."

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<div class="quote">Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Haroldosaur wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Haroldosaur wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Wiz Ardon, the Peculiar Enchanter wrote:<br /><div class="quote">Haroldosaur wrote:<br />At the moment, I'd say my ideas on the subject are very FMA, although the idea of equivalent exchange has been with me for a lot longer than the show has. I'm open to new interpretations, but I view it as turning something into something that's worth the same.</div><br />That interpretation does not seem clear to me, considering that the value of things is subjective. Unless the measure is energy or something of the sort, it seems like mambo jambo to me! :P

Besides, the whole point of alchemy is to get something that has more value than what you previously had. Also, I haven't actually read/watched FMA, so I wouldn't really know its interpretation, except perhaps for the fact that it is probably quite imaginative.
</div>More PERSONAL value. My view on it is that in order to gain something, something of equal value must be lost. You can construct, where you can turn something into something completely different provided you have enough of it - a ton of dirt into a couple of diamonds, or something like that. You can deconstruct, which is basically just smashing stuff you touch, and you can reconstruct - fairly self explanatory, if you have all the parts of a broken item you can have it good at new.

This... is the FMA way. :P
</div>Still not explaining how you count value. The Universe can't be just like: "Oh, but of course diamonds are better than other materials and gold is the best metal"! :P</div>Well, that's the point where interpretations start to vary. We're going to have to come up with our own opinion on that matter. :D :P</div><br />Well, it seems to me that the only objective way (unless I'm missing something) would be that the original material and the product should be equivalent in their total mass-energy.
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I don't think you're missing anything, but we're going to have to figure out what transmuted objects should be equal in. There's... hmm...

Not mass, because you could have a plastic folder and turn it into it's weight in platinum, which would probably be worth a lot more.

Not materials, because then you wouldn't really be able to turn anything into anything else so much as reconstruct something. Though that could be a step in the process...?

Maybe energy... I mean, some objects don't have any energy, so they couldn't be changed... if that were the case, then something like a nuclear fuel rod would become really valuble.

Ugh... my brain's starting to hurt. :P