Convince your GM that it should have the fragile quality when used as an improvised weapon, attack the planet with it, and roll a 1.
But what if I roll a 20 and then confirm the crit? We use critical cards! The planet might be tripped or pushed back or stunned or suffer a fractured skull!
You can't break a glass cup (vial, bottle, etc.) by dropping it on a stone floor unless you drop it from 10' above the ground.
Experiment: Fill a sack with a hundred vials of Alchemist Fires. Cast Resist Energy: Fire on yourself. Walk up to your enemy and drop the sack as a free action. If the vials break, the enemy takes at least a hundred points of splash fire damage and dies.
Fortunately, Pathfinder physics preserve game balance and the vials do not break.
And at exactly 0 as long as you walk slowly and don't try to (say) punch anything you can go for miles. But if the right person thinks the wrong thought they can pass out (psychic casters or SLA users.)
You can't break a glass cup (vial, bottle, etc.) by dropping it on a stone floor unless you drop it from 10' above the ground.Experiment: Fill a sack with a hundred vials of Alchemist Fires. Cast Resist Energy: Fire on yourself. Walk up to your enemy and drop the sack as a free action. If the vials break, the enemy takes at least a hundred points of splash fire damage and dies.
Fortunately, Pathfinder physics preserve game balance and the vials do not break.
That happened to our party once. The party received 6,000gp each as a reward. The druid spent his reward on a Handy Haversack and filled it with alchemist's fire, flasks of oil, and feather tokens. (That druid had no respect for nature nor any urge to protect the forest.) The events happened in The Warren of the Death Spider by Rogue Genius Games, so let me retreat behind a spoiler shield for the setup.
In the fight against the death spider, we learned that it was weaker in the sunlight beaming through the ceiling hole. As the spider climbed the ceiling to cut the rope from which the druid hung, the druid threw a tree feather token to the floor to grow a tree to pin the spider against the hole and trap it in the sunlight. Yes, the oddities of Pathfinder physics are nothing compared to what sometimes goes through the minds of players. The spider easily pushed its way through the foliage of the tree back into the now-dark hall, so the druid tried growing another tree. Sigh.
The druid, still hanging, next tossed his handy haversack to the cleric to throw more alchemist's fire at the spider. We had learned that the death spider's minions were vulnerable to fire, and the dwarven fighter even carried 12 molotov cocktails to take advantage of this. The cleric was disappointed that retrieving each flask took a move action.
The rogue suggested the cleric could dump the contents of the flask-filled haversack on the floor. The cleric of Gorum, god of battle and destruction, did so, making no effort to be careful. The GM rolled to see whether any flasks of alchemist's fire or oil had broken. Forty-three had. The GM gave us one turn to run before the mess exploded as a fuel-air bomb. We ran.
The dwarven fighter was too slow and the death spider intercepted the wizard. Those three were caught in the 43d6 explosion. The wizard spent 2 hero points to be tossed clear through the doorway by the explosion. The fighter lived at 2 hit points, but all her molotov cocktails had ignited and she had one turn to drop them. Instead she grabbed the heavily injured death spider and died a hero's death as her molotov cocktails finished it off.
Then the superheated trees burst into flame and ignited the remaining flasks. The room, with the hole in the ceiling serving as a flue, became a raging furnace. All treasure was either melted or reduced to ash.
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At level 20 that same Monk can do 7 attacks in the same 6 seconds. That's 1400 feet of distance in 6 seconds, for about 159.09 mph. That's just shy of 54 mph faster than the fastest baseball pitch on record (105.1 mph). With a chair. That's possibly on fire.
EDIT: Actually double-checked the math. A Range Increment for a Monk of the Empty Hand that burns a Ki Point is 30 feet, not 20 (the ability increases range increment by 20, not to 20) which means it can cover 150 feet and bounce back per attack. Bringing total throwing speed at level 20 to 238.64 mph (rounded to nearest 0.01) with any improvised thrown weapon, including flaming chairs.
238mph? Still slower than a couple of thousand peasants in a row, using readied actions to pass an object along the line in a single round. That should be enough to break the sound barrier.
If I've got my numbers right, you'd need over a billion peasants to hit light speed.
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A torch casts normal light. Adding more torches won't ever increase the light in the room above normal, no matter how many torches you have within 20 feet of each other.
For that matter, in your futile attempts to make the room brighter by bringing in a dozens of torches, you also don't make the room any warmer.