The aforementioned undead, for example, are immune to almost anything that requires a Fortitude save, unless it can also affect objects.
The idea is to 'trap' all the magnetic lines of force within the metal and thus preventing it from affecting other objects in the area.
However, a spherically symmetric body affects external objects gravitationally as if all of its mass were concentrated at its center.
Newton's laws and Newtonian mechanics in general were first developed to describe how forces affect idealized point particles rather than three-dimensional objects.
Originally, power rings were unable to affect objects colored yellow, though Lanterns have typically found ways around the limitation by indirect manipulation.
The reason why the rings were unable to affect yellow objects has changed significantly from writer to writer.
Energy is a quantity that gives an object the ability to affect other objects.
They did not take the very thing that might have given them the strength to move the stones, and to affect objects by mere thought.
So far, his powers have been shown to affect inanimate objects, summon simple objects into existence, and transmogrify one object to another.
She is even capable of telekinetically affecting objects she cannot see.