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Science is Magic (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Just because you know how something works doesn't make it not magic

[–] yesman 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you understand how quantum mechanics works, why are you keeping it a secret?

[–] Viking_Hippie 28 points 3 months ago

Out of pure spite.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you understand magnets you know how magic works. Hell, even aerofoils seem like a glitch in reality.

[–] BeardedBlaze 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The dictionary disagrees with you.

[–] lath 20 points 3 months ago

That's because it's a dic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but higher literature (DnD rulebooks) disagree with YOU

[–] BeardedBlaze 1 points 3 months ago

This is Science Memes, not Fantasy Memes lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The dictionary sucks.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even magic itself loses its magic when you know how it works.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it, really? Or is it "magic" all the way down...? :-D

[–] Anticorp 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As someone who was crazy about magic as a kid and learned a bunch of magic tricks, yes, it does. Really.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, for magic "tricks" that's fair:-).

You could still use it to cause squeals of delight from young'uns who don't know any better yet. So the utility is vastly diminished, but not entirely gone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As someone else who was crazy about magic as a kid, I feel like that just made magic even more magical. Having an understanding of how magic tricks work lets you really appreciate the art and be truly wowed when you see a trick you can't figure out.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I still appreciate it, but the "magic" is gone. It becomes an intellectual and physical challenge once you understand the mechanics behind slight of hand and other forms of stage magic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, for sure. To me, the intellectual and physical challenge is the magic.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 months ago

I guess to me the magic that's left are the reactions I get from people who really love magic. There isn't really anything else I can do that provokes such a happy reaction from people. Plus the genius behind some of these tricks is really amazing. Guys like David Blaine really are geniuses in their field. I found a PDF file on the torrent network that contained all of his popular tricks back in the mid 00's, and the looks of absolute amazement I got at parties was priceless. One of my brother-in-laws accused me of being a warlock when I showed him some tricks the first time I met him. Haha!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What did you think of magic after you learned occultist techniques?

[–] Anticorp 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That it's not real, which was also a disappointment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of course magic isn't real. Magic occupies the border between reality and unreality, and is the mechanism by which effects cross it. Take money, for example. Not real, it's just a social assignment of value. Magic is what makes money have real effects on the world.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of course magic isn't real

It'd sure be a lot cooler if it were.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, reality is bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from science!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Totally agree. I just witnessed my sister delivering her baby a few days back.