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Research #1

Ok, recently my friend and I were messing with psiballs, and I got an idea. The idea was to make two psiballs, one filled with Fire energy, and the other Water, and then to squish them together, spin the combined form together really fast, and break the center (the only thing separating the two elements) at the right moment to fuse the elemental energy together. We then sealed the result in a clear quartz crystal ( which I wear around my neck) and repeated this process with Earth and Air. We fused the resulting energy into the crystal with the Fire/Water mix, and the energy within grew immensely. What I'm wondering is if we created Ether, the higher fifth (yes some say there are five) element. And if not, what did we make?


Research #2

Directly after this first expirement, I began to wonder: If there are primary elements, what are their sub-elements ( or secondaries)? If someone could compile information on this and graph it out,( I was thinking something like a snowflake type layout) it would not only be helpful for me but for everyone researching elemental energies. If someone could make a graph such as this (and post it on this page) I would be willing to personally pay in Gaia Gold, obviously, a small sum of around 500-1000 g.

Well I guess I'll try saying my opinion on this.

I'm not 100% what you mean by "Fire energy" (or water, air and earth actually) but if it's what I think you mean by that, then I'll have to say that those aren't element actually.
The "fire energy" you filled in it was actually your image of what fire is. Same goes for air, earth and water. If only an image work, it mean you can just easily take an image of anything to you and fill a psibal with it. For exemple, light, darkness, void, cat, bird, people, chocolate, house.. and so on..

if I am wrong then explain to me what you mean by "Fire/earth/air/water energy"

Depends on the system you're using. If you're going by the original system, there are no 'sub elements' whatsoever. It's unfortunate how little of the original system is written upon in most currently published texts, but it's actually pretty darned specific in terms of how it works and such. One thing we need to keep in mind first and foremost is that the Four was originally designed as a way of explaining mechanistics of the universe, NOT AS A SYSTEM OF MAGIC. We're already pulling it somewhat out of context by using it in that manner, so at the very least we aught to understand where it originally came from. Of course, if you don't give a rat's a** (no offense to rats intended) about the original Aristostelian system, experiment on your own and mess with it as you like... but do recognize that what you're doing isn't the same as the original system. That's all I ask. wink

Oh, and I guess a note on the first point, in the system, you technically don't 'combine' elements in that way. A substance is composed of a mixture of elements, but two elements cannot suddenly become one thing. The point of the elements is that they're elementary - like atoms, combining two hydrogen and one oxygen doesn't destroy the fact it's made of hydrogen and oxygen (we just call the new compound water). In the system, elements are changed themselves moreso by changing their qualities, not by mixing them. But... I don't think I'm explaining this quite right at the moment. sweatdrop