Just saying that if the spell is designed to work relative to the rest frame, then no amount of relativistic internalizing will change how it works. Of course it is possible in the HPMOR universe to design new spells, and a competent Wizard with a good grasp of invariance in physics might be able to create a new spell, Attache Momentum.
You are right, he did phrase it this way, which makes this spell unreasonably easy to munchkin. He would have probably thought harder about it were he a DM of an actual DD game.
It seems like a hack of the rules on the level of partial transfiguration. Also, if you house-rule that it requires “magical energy” in proportion to the delta-momentum, it shouldn’t be too overpowered.
But he didn’t say “the caster’s reference frame”, he said “some much larger mass that the wizard thinks is a reference frame”.
Just saying that if the spell is designed to work relative to the rest frame, then no amount of relativistic internalizing will change how it works. Of course it is possible in the HPMOR universe to design new spells, and a competent Wizard with a good grasp of invariance in physics might be able to create a new spell, Attache Momentum.
And I’m just saying, the way Eliezer phrased it above, there’s no singular reference frame—any suitable mass will do.
You are right, he did phrase it this way, which makes this spell unreasonably easy to munchkin. He would have probably thought harder about it were he a DM of an actual DD game.
It seems like a hack of the rules on the level of partial transfiguration. Also, if you house-rule that it requires “magical energy” in proportion to the delta-momentum, it shouldn’t be too overpowered.