Yes, he did. In a Vs debate over the DC universe vs Endbringers.
I'm not much for Worm, honestly. I just really like ensou's work. But I've picked up quite a bit about Worm canon from reading her stuff.
And what he says is basically "go see the numbers in this other thread", and then just builds off of that thread. That other thread only has calculations based on aluminum's ultimate tensile strength. Which, I'm going to point out now, is inherently flawed. Tensile strength does not give you the amount of force needed to cut through the layers.
Shear strength does, and for aluminum that's 0.6 times the UTS.
The "galaxy" thing came from a throwaway comment of "you'd have to do something like throw a freaking
solar system at it in order to do any damage" which then escalated to "it could survive a galaxy getting thrown at it". Which then went to math about figuring out the speed needed to penetrate to Leviathan's core when throwing the equivalent assumed mass of the observable universe with a restricted impact area of 1cm
2 , ending up with a result of about Mach 160 or one one-hundredth of a percent of the speed of light.
All of that has
literally nothing to do about how much matter the Endbringers have or are made up of.
So I have no idea why Wildbow jumped from "throwing x amount of matter" to "digging through x amount of matter" in
keep in mind that you're effectively having to dig through a spiral galaxy's equivalent of matter to reach the core in the first place.
while
explicitly referencing that very thread unless he either a) didn't understand what was going on or b) skimmed when he was responding to the JLA versus argument and accidentally misinterpreted it.
So it shouldn't be "dig through" it should be "throw", with the added caveat of "at sufficient velocities probably approaching a full percent the speed of light", all calculated based on this UTS thing which I've pointed out is already incorrect for something like Armsmaster's special blade.
I hate things like bad WoG quotes.
I've already said how I interpret the Endbringers' existences both in this thread and over in the Zizster thread, which is
effective overlay. The Focalpoint shard over there is a decent (simplified) explanation, with the Endbringers' bodies being composed of matter projected from multiple sources through a single concave lens-like point. So the closer to the core/dimensional lens you are, the denser the matter is, even to the point of being physics-breaking, just like light is less spread out (and thus equivalent areas are bright) the closer you are to a concave lens.
EDIT (adding links and a quote):
From JLA vs Endbringers thread:
Wildbow said:
All three Endbringers are exceptionally tough, to put it mildly. See the latter half of
this comment by
/u/whispersilk (look for the numbers) for details. As a rule, the only things that are actually going to penetrate the center of their bodies are things that ignore the laws of physics. Endbringers regenerate (and regenerate faster as you get closer to the middle of their bodies) and fight at peak capacity so long as their core remains intact (keep in mind that you're effectively having to dig through a spiral galaxy's equivalent of matter to reach the core in the first place).
From the referenced thread:
The calculations and solar-system thing.
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