The point is that if you use a "vacuum" of space, and you transfer all the energy to some particle, you don't care if the proton flies through space at light speed and hits and asteroid.momothefiddler wrote:Once you put the thermal energy into a single particle, it's just momentum, since the average and measure are identical with a single item.
How much energy can you put into a single particle? Can you accelerate a proton to 99.99% of the speed of light just by cooling a microliter of water by a fraction of a degree? Can you turn your heat control into momentum control the same way Magneto turned his magnetic control into telekinesis - by using hax levels of precision to take thermal energy out of an object and channel it into each of that object's constituent particles in a very carefully measured manner, or vice versa? Does this allow you to do what TiaC suggested, with the additional option of adding up all the "thermal energy" of each particle in your attacker's fist and transferring it to their brain?
I assume you can't just pick on particle on earth, or that if you do, you can't decide which direction it goes, or it collides with some other particle and your directioning is now useless. Which is why I am just saying, freeze everything using your ability to transfer heat to some random particles in space as a heatsink.
I don't think you probably could. Which is why I suggested targeting a vacuum instead of a particle.Laertes wrote:Could you even target a single proton or molecule? Human being physically can't perceive single protons - they're too small. We can detect their passage but that's an after-the-fact thing. On the other hand, if we can target stuff we can't see, then there's all sorts of stupid stuff you can do, limited only by your GM's patience for particle physics. Google "Maxwell's Demon" for an example of how to use it to make infinite free energy.