Fuck it, physics is magic. You study for years to learn the innate laws of the universe and bend them to your will. You know what most people would do if magicians were real people? They’d call them nerds for spending too much time studying and most people would avoid the subject like the plague. Magicians and physicists are the same thing.
My physics teacher is also a magician so you got a point
Depends on how good the magic was. If it let you fireball a room full of goblins with a wave of your hand, read minds, lightning people with your fingertips like emperor palpatine, and conjure familiars to do your house work?
All without any manufacturing facilities and minimal capital outlay
I dare say physics would be more popular then
But that’s never how magic is depicted - it always takes decades of knowledge and learning or powerful enchanted artifacts forged from rare minerals and materials, and rituals which always name a price.
Modern magic can do all those things - if you have the right artifacts, likewise made of precious metals forged by lightning and etched with beams of sunfire and inlaid with gemstones from beyond the sea, fuelled by the ichor alchemically distilled from the remnants of ancient forests and carefully assembled by entire courts of white-robed magi who have each spent decades perfecting their deep knowledge of ritual and arcane lore.
With these artifacts, I can incinerate an entire room with a twitch of my finger upon a staff of fire summoning, read minds with a helm of probing, lightning people with a tiny wand of stunning, and conjure familiar from across the world to do my bidding on my black mirror for the small sacrifice of tiny particles of lightning in a distant runestone.
Quantum Tunneling, Quantum entanglement, statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Spooky action at a distance
Einstein looked into that shit and was like ‘nah fuck that homie’
We sometimes conjure fireballs but it’s totally from a certain type of invisible gas and also you can’t smell the gas but it’s definitely there and NOT MAGIC
Saw a working mercury arc rectifier for the first time recently and those things are wild, definitely don’t look “right”
What’s the bottom right image of?
It shows Cherenkov radiation of a nuclear underwater reactor (I think, I don’t know this exact picture)
As one of my Daughters told the Chair of the Physics department at a large Big 10 collage to switch her major from ME to Physics, “I want know the answer, not guess.”
The difference between physics and magic is that physics works by describing the forces acting on a system. To predict an outcome, you just progressivly apply those forces over time.
With magic, you just specify the outcome, but not how you get there.
This is how we know that thermodynamics is magic. Conservation laws and Lagrangeans too.
Shit gets spooky when you consider proton non decay at its utmost consequences
What’s the middle bottom one?
That orb in the middle of the apparatus is The Demon Core, a piece of plutonium produced during the Manhattan Project, for a third nuke which was never needed. So it was used for criticality experiments, which is where those hemispheres come in.
Anyway, in those experiments it was key in a few accidents, which caused the deaths by radiation of several researchers. After the later bout of experiments, the core was scrapped.
Idk how you can include all this but not the Kyle Hill documentary
Good point, thanks for pointing to it.
(Also, pro tip: take off that ?si=… stuff from your link, that’s tracking tags)
Just about anything with “black,” or, “dark,” in its name, be very skeptical. 🧐 But quantum entanglement, that’s the good stuff. Only GR’s SpaceTime mechanics comes close to being as crazy.
what are GR’s spacetime mechanics?
I love mercury vapor rectifiers!
I think someone made a floating lamp using the power of magnets about a decade ago. It looks cool.
Totally not magic at all, not even a little bit.
