Stuff that floats

[PDoogan]

I was thinking about this last night: how do all those different objects just seem to float in mid air? Coins, blocks, platforms, ect.
You can walk under them so there's no invisible object holding them up, so what is?

[Yoshi Master]

They all float but for coins it's probably not as common, the blocks could be like buried tresure I geuss.

[Toomai]

I remember making a theory about mass transfering back in the POW block topic.

[Claws]

*leaves to look at Toomai's theory*

*comes back*

Yep. Toomai figured it out.

Still doesn't explain coins, though.

[Toomai]

I think on-edge coins are an in-game thing for two reasons.

1. If they were lying down, think if how hard it would be to see them in a 2D game.

2. Coins were fully dynamic and did lay down in Luigi's Mansion (it's just one game, but it exists).

[PDoogan]

Yeah, but that doesn't explain why their in mid-air.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

I think that some of those coins must have been made when whoever made them wasn't as skilled in making them so alot of them end up with impurities. If the gold got mixed in with the new floaty substance that would probly cause them to float in mid-air, so as who ever was making the coins became more experenced they learned to tell the difference between the substances and how to seperate them, so coins in future games don't float as ofthen but aparently whoever is making them still hasn't perfected the refining process.

[Yoshi Master]

But why are they everywhere ( including wilderness )

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Cause people and creaturs were just walking about when the impure coins just up and floated out of wherever they were keeping them.

[PDoogan]

Hmm...I think black yoshi is on tho somthing. Mabye it's a certain anti-gravity material in the chemical make-up of the objects that allows them to float. And certian coins have more or less of this material.

[Claws]

Yeah, that substance Toomai spoke of could've been mixed in with the other materials making up the coins at the mint. Maybe "floating coins" are a source of national pride for the Mushroom Kingdom.

[PDoogan]

Of mabey it's just really hard to get out of the gold. I mean, who wants to wake up and find their wallet stuck to the celing? X)

[Toomai]

That would be funny, but no one seems to have wallets or any kind of coin-carrying containers other than hammerspace.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

And yet most of the enemies you defeat seem to always drop coins from someplace. Lol.

[Claws]

The inclination to float probably isn't great enough to overcome any kind of restraining device, such as a wallet or coin bag.

[Yoshi Master]

But, the coins are stationary, there's no reason why they shouldn't keep flying higher and higher and higher.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Density is the reason. The higher you go the less dense the air is. But actually that dosn't make to much sense. So I thought of a better explanation instead. The mineral in the coins is magnetic, and repeles possible similar minerals or something in the ground. So the furthur away from the ground the coins get the less effect the magnetic mineral has. At some point it reches homeostasis and moves neither up or down till someone comes 'long to pick 'em out o' the air.

[Yoshi Master]

Or the coins are really just floating very slowly up.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

How?

[dragemit]

magic o3o