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.
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Artyom@lemm.ee 1 year ago
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Every sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends on how good the magic was. If it let you fireball a room full of goblins, lightning people with your fingertips like emperor palpatine, and conjure familiars to do your house work?
I dare say physics would be more popular then
wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
- Fireball? We have rocket launchers.
- Lightning people? We have tasers.
- Mind reading? Ok, I’ll give you that.
- Conjure familiars? Buy a dish washer or cleaner service or whatever.
Many of the fantasy powers can be done. It isn’t a question of capability but of economics. The economics are ignored in most stories, no matter if it’s fantasy or a real world thriller.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My physics teacher is also a magician so you got a point
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
We all crowning ourselves high wizards of the college of Winterholm yet the coolest bending of universal laws I’ve done is an acid-base titration. WHERE BROMOTHYMOL BLUE GO?!?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Computers are magic.
Circuit boards are basically runes, written in stone and inlaid with precious metals to conduct pure energy around in very specific ways to do pretty much anything we wish.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s sand we carved into patterns and tricked into thinking with tamed lightning.
Then there’s RF (radio frequency) which is the DEEP magic.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 year ago
As someone who is trying to get Meshtastic to work I feel this. My pocket node can connect to people 50km away, but the base station with the chongus antenna can only connect across town?
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve always told my students that programming is just magic. If you get the right combination of words and symbols, the magic lightning rock will do your bidding.
lemmeee@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
We write incantations to make the magic rock think and give us answers.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The best evidence of this is the “magic / more magic” switch.
Shard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Quantum Tunneling, Quantum entanglement, statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 year ago
Imagine thinking there’s any situation in which particles appear to move faster than the speed of light.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spooky action at a distance
Einstein looked into that shit and was like ‘nah fuck that homie’
cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 year ago
And that’s not even the worst part. Its theoretically possible,that every single electron is the same.
Shard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Utterly deranged
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
The “not a demon” guy is going to have a real bad time.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He will not sacrifice an entire room to a deamon. I repeat, it’s not a sacrifice of everybody in a room for a deamon.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fool me once, shame on… shame on me. Fool me twice? You can’t get fooled again!
Because of the fatal dose of radiation.
nymwit@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just don’t build a house of neutron-reflective tungsten carbine bricks around it or cowboy the beryllium hemispheres, hell, maybe just trust the last guys’ calculations instead of testing for closeness to criticality. Safe as houses.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We sometimes conjure fireballs but it’s totally from a certain type of invisible gas and also you can’t smell it but it’s definitely there and NOT MAGIC
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Plasmabulb in the microwaved lightbulb?
Mwallerby@startrek.website 1 year ago
Saw a working mercury arc rectifier for the first time recently and those things are wild, definitely don’t look “right”
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Yeah, don’t touch it.
drislands@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s the bottom right image of?
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
That is a mercury arc rectifier:
Dnn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought you might also enjoy its German name: Quecksilberdampfgleichrichter
AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It shows Cherenkov radiation of a nuclear underwater reactor
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Nope, just plain UV from the mercury arc in the rectifier:
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Looks like cherenkov radiation
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Nope, that is a mercury arc rectifier:
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shit gets spooky when you consider proton non decay at its utmost consequences
homura1650@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.”
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Weird, because my experience with science and mathematics is that everything I learned only leads to more questions. I personally preferred taking a small chunk of that knowledge and using it to do real-world stuff which was always surprisingly complicated but satisfying. An engineer that “guesses” is not a very good one IMO lol
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
My whole life I thought I’d study mechatronics. I was one of those kids winning robotics comps and getting sponsored to go to global ones and get my arse beat by actually smart people.
Anyway, I switched to physics because “I want to know why”.
Ahaha, hahahahaha, aaahshahshshshs oh naive little me. Ha ha ha ha. Now I am an overeducated house wife with a head full of questions. I could have done something useful instead of rocking back and forth in a padded room screaming “but what is time? why does it break all the patterns?”
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
That’s actually the reason a friend of mine gave for switching from physics to maths.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Bridge Diodes current regulation are considered physics? I mean, yeah, but about as much as any other science field, right?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s electrical engineering if anything
Dabundis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Electrical engineering is an application of electrical physics
Dabundis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Electrics are a branch of physics
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
So you’re saying Electronics is Electrics is Physics?
In that case Biology is Chemistry is Physics and therefor Medical Doctors have degrees in Physics. If you feel like fighting me I will await you out back.
Lucien@hexbear.net 1 year ago
I learned cursory electronics and circuits in my physics curriculum.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s the middle bottom one?
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Idk how you can include all this but not the Kyle Hill documentary
JayDee@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
nodoze313@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This is why I always appreciated that Brakebills in The Magicians was basically grad school with better dorm life.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
OK but electromagnetics is totally magic.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I love mercury vapor rectifiers!
Lucien@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Jeredin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Don’t start me with death rays you can’t block.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
towerful@programming.dev 1 year ago
Man, 2 full bridge rectifiers in the same meme?
This is either electroboom, or struggling for things to fill a meme
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Where’s the second one
deus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By elimination it must be the “what the fuck”