Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science.
Any sufficient understanding of magic is indistinguishable from science.
Yeah, any time there’s a story where magic exists and there’s some kind of “magic vs. science” conflict, I think, “Magic IS science in that world, because it exists.”
Oh I hate those kinds of conflicts. Magic, whatever force or mystical art it might be exploiting, would indeed just be science to that world.
Science is merely a study of the things that exist in our reality. If different things exist in other realities, the study of those things will also just be science.
That’s also why the concept of something being “supernatural” is nonsensical. If it exists, it’s part of the natural world, whether we understand its nature yet or not.
It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it’s done.
-Terry Pratchett
Science is magic to those who don’t understand the science.
It’s still magic. Even the folks studying the cutting edge eventually have to admit ‘I don’t know past this point.’ We just happen to have an explanation up to that point.
That doesn’t make it magic.
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this Beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable, natural world How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of Cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
Excerpt from Tim Minchin’s Storm
Hey this worlds pretty awesome and beautiful I agree, but imagine a world with all that PLUS dragons! That’d be a cooler world all right.
