Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
You guys are assuming there would be no transfer of energy causing sydney to splat against the inside of her own shield. I dont know if being bullet proof resistant, means she can slam herself bodily into solid objects and expect to go through them like they dont even exist. Put her in the bomb suit again, then have her ram things at gradually increasing speeds to confirm or deny this potential application please. If there is even a ten percent reduction in speed, that means if she slams into a plane going 400 mph, she will hit the wall of her shield going 40. Crunch.
There will be no significant transfer of energy. We already know this.

Physics-wise, "moving" and "stationary" are null words. Motion is only ever relative to other things, and you can always decide that any arbitrary thing is stationary and it's everything else that's moving.

This means that there is NO difference between something hitting Sydney's shield, and Sydney's shield hitting something. It's just the choice of reference frames, what thing you have decided to pretend is stationary when you look at the motions of other objects relative to it. By the same token, there is NO difference between Sydney's shield not moving when something hits it, and Sydney's shield not stopping when it hits something. Again, just the choice of reference frames.

Therefore, the fact that Sydney's shield didn't bounce around like a pinball and splatter Sydney all over the interior when Max punched it means that it will not stop or bounce off if Sydney were to ram Max (or an airplane, or the ground, or a billboard which she has done in the comic, or whatever) with it, and the fact that it did not transfer the energy of the punch to Sydney means that it will not transfer the energy of the ram to Sydney.

And we've seen the force Max can apply shatter pavement, grind concrete to dust, and send a 65-ton tank flying off into the distance. And we've seen Sydney's shield just casually shrug it off, with no more transfer to Sydney than, "Well, I could tell you were hitting it." This force is not in any way different than the force of the shield hitting something.

I had pretty much this same discussion with someone in the comments of Monday's page. One of the very first things we learned about the orbs, before we even saw them, is that they can resist large amounts of force without transferring that force to Sydney. Why do people insist on ignoring this to make Sydney's shield useless?