No one else has ever tried it. It might not be that hard once you know what it is.
He really should have been able to do it with billiard-ball atoms. Just define “the left half of the brick” as an object. It doesn’t make any sense that you can transfigure a bicycle but not the front wheel of that bicycle..
Also, as someone on TV Tropes pointed out, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is set in 1991, but Julian Barbour’s book The End of Time was published in 1999 and his research paper directly addressing the subject was published in 1994.
No one else has ever tried it. It might not be that hard once you know what it is.
He really should have been able to do it with billiard-ball atoms. Just define “the left half of the brick” as an object. It doesn’t make any sense that you can transfigure a bicycle but not the front wheel of that bicycle..
Also, as someone on TV Tropes pointed out, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is set in 1991, but Julian Barbour’s book The End of Time was published in 1999 and his research paper directly addressing the subject was published in 1994.