@eggnog said in In Another World with Household Spells - Corrections Topic:
V6P8 18% and everywhere else that "force" is mentioned:
"Force is what makes things work," I explained."[...] When force is applied to the food we eat, it becomes energy to move our bodies. A growing flower uses force to take energy from the sun[...]"
This is a very strange definition of force. The physics concept of force is a push or pull on a object, with a magnitude and direction. It's not the same thing as a chemical reaction which is what most of her examples sound like to me. While force is indeed applied to the food we eat when we chew it, I don't get the impression Patience is describing chewing there. Is Patience giving a meaningless explanation in Japanese, or is there another word that force might be translated as...? I think she's describing the conversion of energy from one form to another, so maaaaybe transduction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducer
I agree that what she is describing is a lot closer to energy transduction than anything else.
However, given the apparently primitive state of that world's natural philosophy, and the fact that Patience is just trying to get basic concepts across to her little brothers, I had assumed that she wasn't even trying to use the terminology correctly in terms of real world physics but was just repurposing terminology for her own ends.