Can the power of the Elements of Harmony be artificially produced?

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

The Elements are something of an old pony's tale - they can be both the guiding light to one land's dream of peace and harmony for all its inhabitants (Equestria), or an ancient weapon used to crush your enemies beneath a well-covered solid layer of love (Discord's statue). My question to you is, if pony technology advances to a certain level, can all the eventual research on these ancient items shed some light onto how its power be used without their actual presence - more specifically, the selected few who can wield them?

[LightRaider 148]

I don't understand why they always run to get the necklaces and weird crown thingy.

Didn't they establish in the first episode that they are the elements?

If so, why would they need them in the first place, if they could just use themselves?

To answer your question, i don't think you can, because it would be really hard to artificially produce an actual pony.

[Mephala 2,633]

No, I don't think so. If they are the SPIRITS of the Elements of Harmony, then how can someone replicate a spirit? It wouldn't make much sense.

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

I don't understand why they always run to get the necklaces and weird crown thingy.

Didn't they establish in the first episode that they are the elements?

If so, why would they need them in the first place, if they could just use themselves?

To answer your question, i don't think you can, because it would be really hard to artificially produce an actual pony.

 

No, they cannot unleash their power without the actual items. That's what I'm getting at - centuries and centuries of research possibly opening the idea of harnessing the power the Elements can put forth without having a wielder or the actual element; i.e, blasting rainbows (for the lack of a better term) at some evil guy.

[Mephala 2,633]

I don't understand why they always run to get the necklaces and weird crown thingy.

Didn't they establish in the first episode that they are the elements?

If so, why would they need them in the first place, if they could just use themselves?

To answer your question, i don't think you can, because it would be really hard to artificially produce an actual pony.

 

I never really got that either. If they are the Elements in spirit it wouldn't really matter. I guess it's just to make it look cooler or something

[Lightning Fluttershy 1,844]

Exactly like Raindancer said. The real elements are within the mane six right? That's why Nightmare Moon couldn't destroy them and how Twilight found that element of magic. I feel like the material objects are some sort of energy transition device that turns the raw power of their element into usable energy.

[LightRaider 148]

Exactly like Raindancer said. The real elements are within the mane six right? That's why Nightmare Moon couldn't destroy them and how Twilight found that element of magic. I feel like the material objects are some sort of energy transition device that turns the raw power of their element into usable energy.

 

NEW HEADCANON WOO

Thats the greatest theory i have heard yet. Thanks for that.

and i still don't think you would be able to replicate the elements, as its magic stuff.

[Starshine 16,333]

No, they cannot unleash their power without the actual items.

On the second episode, the Elements simply answers the Bearers' call. While they can't do that on the Discord episode, it's because they was either panicked or brainwashed.

 

I guess it's just a matter of emergency?

 

On the thread's question...

My question to you is, if pony technology advances to a certain level, can all the eventual research on these ancient items shed some light onto how its power be used without their actual presence - more specifically, the selected few who can wield them?

As we know, new bearers will be selected when the previous bearers (Celly) lost their connection to the elements. If the ponies can work their way around this new-bearer-selection mechanism, I'm pretty sure they can isolate the elements on something (power battery or some sort), which then can be used by any willing ponies.

 

cue those ponies using the EoH to overthrow Celly

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

Exactly like Raindancer said. The real elements are within the mane six right? That's why Nightmare Moon couldn't destroy them and how Twilight found that element of magic. I feel like the material objects are some sort of energy transition device that turns the raw power of their element into usable energy.

 

The way things have stacked up, especially considering The Cutie Mark Chronicles, it leads me to believe that they were destined to be the Elements of Harmony rather than the Elements merely trying to settle for "good matches" should it have ever come to it.

 

From where I sat, it looked like the Elements were destroyed at first, but Twilight's realization of having friends brought them back to life even as just shards. Who knows, you could probably make up an argument that they could have more abilities/moves with them if they were harnessed as spheres rather than shards

[Zygen 6,066]

I don't think so considering the fact that the elements of harmony in my eyes are kinda like the mane 6, and then the elements of harmony necklaces and stuff are kinda like ways to channel their power.

 

In short I don't think so, because they would have to be able to create a spirit and that well sounds quiet difficult I think .

[NavelColt 22,880]

In a world where magic itself (which to us humans has always been a symbol for something that can't be explained) exists as a given, I'm sure at some point in the future something close to harnessing the power of the elements through technology could be possible. I mean come on, they can already -make- rainbows, snowflakes, etc. through machinery. I personally don't think they could ever reach the full potential of what the Elements themselves are capable of doing, but they could probably create something like them that could recreate the power to a lesser extent.

 

In the end the elements' powers are drawn from the essence of parts of an individual's personality, and I don't think that's something you can recreate perfectly with pure machinery, ever.

Edited October 24, 2012 by ~Chaotic Discord~

[Blitz 127]

Possibly. If you think about it scientifically, even if you do need the spirits of the elements, there has to be at least SOME of the power in the necklaces themselves in order to harness the spirits of the elements and turn it into usable power. So, if they could figure out what substance can harness the spirits, they could reproduce that substance, and then find a substitute for the spirits of the elements, and they could easily have a weapon! (Sorry I go into nerd mode when I read questions like this. )

[AegisReflector 886]

I doubt many of you are way too young to remember, but remember when humans at one point thought that going into outer space or even just flying to the skies was just an impossible feat and a form of witchcraft/sorcery? Well, I was not conceived either, so I have no idea lol.

 

But my point is, with technology comes new breakthroughs everyday, and like somepony else said in this topic, the ponies in Equestria have the power to control the weather and even harness enough power to bring water UPWARDS to Cloudsdale. I'm pretty sure if they wanted to they could recreate the Elements of Harmony too. I mean, they have the power to make people literally fall in love with love potions/poisons so I don't see how they couldn't accomplish a feat like this.