Flash Season 3

[doc7924]

My explanation for the instant reaction when Eddie shot himself is that there was a wormhole open to Thawnes time right in the corridor with them.  So the effect was able to propagate instantly.

Never thought of that. Great explanation.

[Super Firebug]

Three things from the finale:

1. To "splice" is to join two or more things together - like splicing electrical wires to complete a circuit. What Savitar wanted would have been more like an interdimensional quantum splinterer, or fracturer, and not a splicer.

2. On Cisco's request for Wally to "reverse the polarity on the neutron flow": neutrons are neither positively nor negatively charged, so a "neutron flow" would have no polarity.

3. If we've learned anything about the Arrowverse, the deaths of H.R., Eddie, and Barry's mother show us that Arrowverse citizens with massive heart trauma will bleed out at the speed of plot, with plenty of time for a conversation along the way. :/

[Tahquitz]

2. On Cisco's request for Wally to "reverse the polarity on the neutron flow": neutrons are neither positively nor negatively charged, so a "neutron flow" would have no polarity.

It's a hat tip to Jon Pertwee.

[Tenzhi]

Three things from the finale:

1. To "splice" is to join two or more things together - like splicing electrical wires to complete a circuit. What Savitar wanted would have been more like an interdimensional quantum splinterer, or fracturer, and not a splicer.

Savitar was trying to join himself to every moment in time so that he'd be interwoven with all of creation.

[Mandu]

2. On Cisco's request for Wally to "reverse the polarity on the neutron flow": neutrons are neither positively nor negatively charged, so a "neutron flow" would have no polarity.

Neutron flow

Although neutrons themselves have no polarity if the stream were flowing clockwise (for instance) then switching the flow to counter clockwise would reverse the polarity of the flow.

[Super Firebug]

Neutron flow

Although neutrons themselves have no polarity if the stream were flowing clockwise (for instance) then switching the flow to counter clockwise would reverse the polarity of the flow.

Sorry, but I still disagree; that would reverse the direction. But polarity comes from the idea of oppositely-charged poles, as on a magnet, where one repels and the other attracts.

Also, in the finale, Gypsy told Cisco that she could feel that he was in danger because they're linked. Assuming that "Gypsy" is a codename, we haven't heard her real name. I'm wondering if they're linked and have the same powers because, maybe, she's Cisco's doppleganger from her Earth. Or would that be too weird?

[ryuplaneswalker]

It isn't weird it would just be Narcissism.

[Tenzhi]

Sorry, but I still disagree; that would reverse the direction. But polarity comes from the idea of oppositely-charged poles, as on a magnet, where one repels and the other attracts.

According to Wikipedia:

"The spin of an entity in quantum mechanics can have a polarity – parallel or anti-parallel to a given direction.

In this context, "spin":

"is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles"

And a neutron "has spin 1/2 ħ".

So, it apparently follows that changing the direction of that spin would change its polarity for the purpose of quantum mechanics but not magnetic charge...  Or, yanno, just repeat to yourself "it's just a show, I should really just relax".

[doc7924]

Sorry, but I still disagree; that would reverse the direction. But polarity comes from the idea of oppositely-charged poles, as on a magnet, where one repels and the other attracts.

Also, in the finale, Gypsy told Cisco that she could feel that he was in danger because they're linked. Assuming that "Gypsy" is a codename, we haven't heard her real name. I'm wondering if they're linked and have the same powers because, maybe, she's Cisco's doppleganger from her Earth. Or would that be too weird?

I suggested this when she first appeared. The old Sliders TV show had an Earth where they met a woman Logan St. Claire who invented sliding there. Turns out her real name was Logan Mallory and was the Quinn Mallory of that world, but a woman. I figured the same thing with Gypsy. Maybe she is a female version of Cisco on E19.

[Tahquitz]

...just repeat to yourself "it's just a show, I should really just relax".

I see what you did there. :)