Talk:Purple Pikmin

According to the game, a purple Pikmin weighs 10 grams, and a red bulbord weighs 10 grams. Is there any logical explainaton you guys can come up for this? Mine is that They don't really wheigh 10 grams, but the downward force they exert is 10 grams woorth, only when they are on a scale. Is this possibly plausible? Maybe some sort of chemical reaction? ocolor 17:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

How could a chemical reaction cause an increase in mass? Only if the air reacted too, but it would have to be (assuming that it is Earth) about 16.6dm³ of air (a cube of sides 25cm); and why would a Purple Pikmin react? ...That was really random.

The value in the article was added by an anonymous user, so I'll assume it unfounded and remove it. It has been calculated, however, that they can carry 10g, as 100 are required to carry the 1kg weight. GP

Wait, I read what you wrote again. Where does it say that in the game? GP

Hey, I'm not anoymous!ocolor 20:43, 2 December 2007 (UTC) Oh, and what if the neutrons and electorns somehow rearranged themselves into a superdense atom? Maybe Purple Pikmin are made of this super dense Element, and thats why they are so extremely hard to produce? O.oocolor 20:43, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Uh, to get this straight: If the atoms of a Purple Pikmin where to be that dense, it's size would shrink (considering it was a simple Red Pikmin before thrown into a candypop). It's the same with black holes. The're smaller than our sun (I think), but have far stronger gravity. And GP wasn't reffering to you as a Anonymous user, instead the person who wrote the weighth. Still, this does confuse me. I think what you said here was on the right track. Just because it say "10" doesn't have to mean that this is grams or a other general mesuring unit.--Prezintenden_(babble)

I guess it was guessed. But Blue Pikmin can throw Purple Pikmin out of the water, lifting 10g, so that kind of kills the whole thing. I really have no idea.

I get what you're trying to explain with the density stuff now: why the Purple Pikmin weigh the same amount as Red Bulborbs. Firstly, I have no idea where that came from. Secondly, if true, it could so easily be that Red Bulborbs have huge stomachs where there is nothing; and a 'superdense atom' is not really relevant, as density is usually determined by how spaced out atoms are due to the intermolecular bond types and quantities. For example, ice not dense because there are Hydrogen bonds, which are longer, spacing the atoms out, increasing volume with constant mass.

...yeah. That's really not relevant. GP

The more isotopes of an atom, the denser it is, regardless of density (or some other subatomic particle). This can be shown be liquid metal, Mercury weighs much more than water at the same density and mass. Also, hmmm. A Purple Pikmin weighs 10x more than a regular Pikmin. A Pikmin carries AT LEAST ten times its weight (if a blue weighs 1 and a purp weighs 10 and a blue can pick up a purp,) so the weight unit of carrying an object= 1 Purple Pikmin minumun or .1 Pikmin minimum. So, a Reb Bulborb weighs as much as 10 Purple Pikmin or 100 Regular Pikmin minimum. That makes more sense. SO, the unit for measuring how much 1 carrying weight is would be ≥ 10 Pikmin weight. So, a treasure requring 1 Pikmin to pick up is as heavy as 10 Pikmin. Maybe Pikmin are very LIGHT, as they weigh 1/10 of a four leafed clover. A scale unit ( a pikmin on a scale) is 1 Pikmin unit, Or 1 PMU. The weight of 1 carry weight (carrying a carcass or treausre) is 10≤ PMU. The stenght of a pikmin is 10≤ PMU. easy! ocolor 19:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

By the way, what you said about density at the start makes no sense... Anyway, that makes sense, but shouldn't be used in the articles as it'd be confusing and unnecessary. Just use numbers without units as in the game, an undefined, relative scale. But this applies only to Pikmin weight: the weight of beasts is known calculated using Doomsday Apparatus = 1kg, Purples lift 10g, others 1g, so Red Bulborbs weigh 10g, but there is no comparison anywhere with Pikmin weights. GP

But, alas, I have found a way to relate Pikmin weight to the carry weight of an object. A pikmin weighs .1 grams or less, 1 gram assuming that A blue Pikmin's maximum amount to carry is a purple, b/c if a blue can pick up both a purple and 1 gram, and a blue pik is 1/10 the weight of a purp, and therefore a purp weighs 1 gram, then yah.