Must be thick walls considering Hijiri didn't just go through it.
She wasn't trying to go through the wall. She was trying to move the building over by about one meter so that Lily's flower could get sunlight, and she used exactly the amount of force she needed to - no more, no less.
She wasn't trying to go through the wall. She was trying to move the building over by about one meter so that Lily's flower could get sunlight, and she used exactly the amount of force she needed to - no more, no less.
Since she's Byakuren
The problem isn't force, but pressure. The force required to move a temple, applied to the area of two palms, would just put holes in the wall. That's why the force required to poke a needle through a piece of fabric won't be enough to tear a piece of fabric in half. You'd need someone like Unzan to push an area and force relative to the mass of the temple to avoid damaging the wall. No amount of force applied to the area of two palms would be enough to move the building without destroying the wall if the failure/strength properties of the wall is less than the failure/strength properties of the rest of the building.
Then there's the issue of Newton's Laws given that Hijiri appears to be standing in dirt. Even if the walls were heavy enough to not break, super strength means that most of the time you would end up burying yourself due to strength of soil vs strength of materials being lifted working against you. The dirt would give away before brick.
But I digress. As a good DM once said to me: "You're applying physics to magic again. Stop it."
Hijiri doesn't have to worry about Newton's Laws pushing her into the dirt because she can fly... she can apply substantial force to the air, so she just needs to be tough enough to not get squished by the reciprocal forces between the two. Which shouldn't be a problem for Byakuren. The toughness of the wall is the real problem.
Hijiri doesn't have to worry about Newton's Laws pushing her into the dirt because she can fly... she can apply substantial force to the air, so she just needs to be tough enough to not get squished by the reciprocal forces between the two. Which shouldn't be a problem for Byakuren. The toughness of the wall is the real problem.
Hijiri's primary magic is basically increasing strength/toughness. She just really need to apply that to a wall and patch of dirt.
The problem isn't force, but pressure. The force required to move a temple, applied to the area of two palms, would just put holes in the wall. That's why the force required to poke a needle through a piece of fabric won't be enough to tear a piece of fabric in half. You'd need someone like Unzan to push an area and force relative to the mass of the temple to avoid damaging the wall. No amount of force applied to the area of two palms would be enough to move the building without destroying the wall if the failure/strength properties of the wall is less than the failure/strength properties of the rest of the building.
Then there's the issue of Newton's Laws given that Hijiri appears to be standing in dirt. Even if the walls were heavy enough to not break, super strength means that most of the time you would end up burying yourself due to strength of soil vs strength of materials being lifted working against you. The dirt would give away before brick.
But I digress. As a good DM once said to me: "You're applying physics to magic again. Stop it."
"You're applying common sense to Gensokyo again. Stop it."
