Just because you know how something works doesn’t make it not magic
If you understand how quantum mechanics works, why are you keeping it a secret?
Out of pure spite.
The dictionary disagrees with you.
Sorry, but higher literature (DnD rulebooks) disagree with YOU
That’s because it’s a dic.
Even magic itself loses its magic when you know how it works.
Does it, really? Or is it “magic” all the way down…? :-D
Quantum mechanics unveils the spaghetti code on which our universe runs
String theory… further proof that breaking your spaghetti violates the fundamental laws of the universe.
I just want to say that string theory is in all likelihood complete bullshit and I’m tired of people acting like it’s not.
Even if it’s not bullshit, from what little I understand it’s essentially unprovable. Which makes it useless in science.
This is beautiful, it’s poetry.
A good illusion is still spectacular even when the illusion is broken. The magical world was boring to begin with.
Pen & Teller have entered the chat.
Science shows us why the world is excting and lets us find even more exciting things. That beings said, it’s still a funny joke.
For those in the unknowing state: https://existentialcomics.com/
its funny to me, the existence of science being something as mundane as “rubbing three moderately flat surfaces against each other in succession will inevitably produce a flat plane as it is the only functional outcome for that problem”
opposed to the incredibly complex and intricate technicalities of steel smelting, and even beyond that, casting properly.
and then also, we know why cicadas make so much noise, it’s really simple. Just a little bit (ok well a lot of bit) of constructive interference. But actually, we also have no fucking clue how they manage to count such long periods of prime duration reliably and consistently.
There’s also the technicality of being able to explain how molecule level physics works, but then not being able to comprehend molecule scale physics in something like biology until recently.
I’m convinced that science is just reverse engineering the universe. Eventually, one day, we will figure out how to create an entire universe, and we will.
Science is the ultimate version of philosophy.
As a matter of fact, reality is far more exciting than magic. Magic is limited by what our feeble human minds can dream up. Science has shown time and time again that reality is far more complex and far more interesting.
The difference between magic and science is that magic is centered on humans in the way that the entire cosmos was once thought to rotate around Earth. Both a magical universe and a scientific universe contain rules that humans can discover and tools that humans can use to influence their environment, but a magical universe is for humans and about humans whereas a scientific universe is not even indifferent to humans.
I admit that it would be nice to have gods and even the very fabric of reality care about what I want…
Sorry, hon. The magical universe may SEEM to be centered around you, but you’re really just experiencing the side benefits of it being centered around me.
Shut up, Harry Potter.