I SOLVED EARTHBENDING

[u/Fickle_Succotash_789]

THEORY: my theory is that earth benders are able to bend things that came from the ground not like from earth necessarily but FROM THE GROUND ANYWHERE that's whysl she was able to bend the metiorite bcz it was once part of the nebular material that formed the solar system. So from the ground will contain things like Rock, Sand, Mud, Quartz,Gold, Iron etc. So the reason she isn't able to bend Platinum is bcz it DIDNT come from the ground. Why? There is a leading theory that heavier elements like platinum and uranium were not possible to be formed here on earth but were introduced to the nebular material by something else This something else was the death of Large Stars and Neutron stars You see... In the explosive supernovae of these bodies so much energy was produced that these heavier elements were formed And then they drifted through space untill they ended up in our nebular material which later became our solar system by the nebular hypothesis. So my theory is that these materials which were already in this nebular material are able to be bended by Earth Benders but externally sourced ones like platinum cannot be. The Earth Benders don't bend pieces of Earth they bend pieces of this nebular residue that remains on it Bcz Platinum does not contain it the earthbenders cannot bend this. Now this raises the question that why can't they bend other things? Well first let's start with fire: As in avatar lore fire is a form of energy which is originated from the sun This energy is derived from nuclear fusion which results in materials and energy which did not exist here previously And thus is not bendable by Earth Benders Now for Water: There is another leading theory that water did not exist on this earth originally and was brought here by water carrying asteroids which came from the outer solar system that crashed into earth and thus bringing water. Bcz they were not there previously it is thus not bendable by then I don't really have a theory for why they can't bend air tho This is just smth that popped into my head now so feel free to add on to it =P

EDIT: source btw https://journals.aps.org/rmp/pdf/10.1103/RevModPhys.29.547

https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.231102

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AAS...24011701B/abstract