Keltham will now explain the kinetic theory of heat, which he verified shortly after arriving in Golarion to see if he could warm up his hands by rubbing them together.  Since different arrangements of the same elements are bound more tightly together and have lower chemical potential energies, transforming molecules in permitted ways means that those molecules end up moving faster.  Energy is conserved by the way, that's really understating a principle of vast power and beauty buuuut they're not gonna get that part for a while.  So if you transform things more tightly bound, they release energy.

If you increase the heat and the amount of random motion, more molecules break apart their current arrangements and get a chance to rearrange themselves into more tightly bound configurations, shifting more of the conserved energy from potential to kinetic, producing more heat.  This, obviously, can spark a chain reaction: heat produces chemical rearrangements produces more heat produces more chemical rearrangements.

Does anyone want to guess what people did with this terrifying principle, after it was discovered in dath ilan?

Keltham will now explain the kinetic theory of heat, which he verified shortly after arriving in Golarion by testing if he could warm up his hands by rubbing them together.  Since different arrangements of the same elements are bound more tightly together and have lower chemical potential energies, transforming molecules in permitted ways means that those molecules end up moving faster.  Energy is conserved by the way, that's really understating a principle of vast power and beauty buuuut they're not gonna get that part for a while.  So if you transform things more tightly bound, they release energy.

If you increase the heat and the amount of random motion, more molecules break apart their current arrangements and get a chance to rearrange themselves into more tightly bound configurations, shifting more of the conserved energy from potential to kinetic, producing more heat.  This, obviously, can spark a chain reaction: heat produces chemical rearrangements produces more heat produces more chemical rearrangements.

Does anyone want to guess what people did with this terrifying principle, after it was discovered in dath ilan?

Keltham will now explain the kinetic theory of heat, which he verified shortly after arriving in Golarion by testing if he could warm up his hands by rubbing them together.  Since different arrangements of the same elements are bound more tightly together and have lower chemical potential energies, transforming molecules in permitted ways means that those molecules end up moving faster.  Energy is conserved by the way, that's really understating a principle of vast power and beauty buuuut they're not gonna get that part for a while.  So if you transform things to be more tightly bound, they release energy.

If you increase the heat and the amount of random motion, more molecules break apart their current arrangements and get a chance to rearrange themselves into more tightly bound configurations, shifting more of the conserved energy from potential to kinetic, producing more heat.  This, obviously, can spark a chain reaction: heat produces chemical rearrangements produces more heat produces more chemical rearrangements.

Does anyone want to guess what people did with this terrifying principle, after it was discovered in dath ilan?