Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-34954086-20121016100525

Ok remember with the bomb, i said that maybe dark matter or dark energy (though I didnt know really anything about this at the time) for the explosive material, well since then I've been to a seminar from one of australia's better astrophysicists which explained dark matter and energy quite a fair bit, dark energy which is what powers the acceleration of the universe, fits quite well with how the bomb appeared to work as it destroyed malina and the cave.

Same tech, similar explanations for 2. If it were drawing power from the host, the ATP absorbtions to ionise tiny Impulses for nerve function is already substantial (30%), to ionise the amount needed for sustained Plasma? not possible at all.

for one 2 things. alternate universes are actually very widely used for explaining physical concepts, one of the main theories on Gravity, a concept I'm sure that you accept a bit more then magic, is that it's due to Dark Energy which is widely believed to be extrauniversal. Sooo gravity comes from alternate universes :P

But for an actual answer it's actually not too difficult to explain twice over. The scarab is ultra dense, but gravitophobic. Hydrophobic materials actually can't b touched by water, gravitophobic (coinage right here) rejects gravitons, the theoretical particle which causes gravity. Without being effected by gravitons, weight is essentially non existant allowing it to be picked up by skinny Jaime no problems. The other explanation would be using dark matter to fill the empty space of the atom. That would massively boost the mass considerring that the majority of atom IS empty space and allow there to be more mass to work with. The same gravitophobic nature is a bit more difficult to apply here however so I much prefer the first explanation :P