Editing Truly Immovable Rod (section)

== Ackchyually... ==

(1) The original DM who started this didn't read the rules clearly, because ''normal'' immovable rods can, in fact, be moved via the application of 8,000 pounds of force. As soon as the force being exerted against them drops under 8,000 pounds, they stop moving. This implies that they are being kept in place not by inertia, but by some kind of cosmological, gravitational, or magnetic drag.

(2) A comment on the original thread mentioned that truly immovable rods would also be indestructible: "if any part of the rod can be damaged it implies the molecules are being broken apart, dented in, etc ... moved. If the rod is immovable then the whole rod should be immovable on a molecular scale." As a corollary of this, immovable rods also maintain a temperature of absolute zero (at least relative to the outside world, if not internally).

(3) Immovable rods are stated to be made out of metal. Many metals become superconductors when brought near absolute zero. Therefore, the metal rod part of the truly immovable rods are probably superconductors when activated.

(4) Many planets have magnetic fields. Some of these magnetic fields are much stronger than Earth's. If you'd like to know what happens when you bring a superconductor and a magnetic field near each other, look up "magnetic flux pinning" or "quantum locking" on Youtube.