• Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • dogsoahC@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    The rules for magic and the rules of existence in most fictional universes are significantly more defined (and, arguably, more solid) than the rules for science and existence in this world.

    Even the brush off of “Its magic. I don’t have to explain it,” at least indicates that SOMEONE understands the effect and its relative existence.

    If you find 5 people who say that they fully understand a single branch of science then I’d bet all of my money in my pocket that you found them in a padded recovery room sans shoe laces.

    • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I always like the comparisons to how magical our world would seem to someone in an alternate reality where transistors or maybe even electricity wasn’t a thing.

      Like you can dumb it down to really magical sounding things like calling a cpu “runes etched in sand”.

  • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Thats not what quantum mechanics shows at all.

    What is being described is the pop-sci version quantum mechanics.

    That version has people believing in multiverses and wormholes and other nonsense that is not falsifiable like magic and has no evidence like magic but people believe in it because people desperately want magic to be real.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    The internet has definitely stolen a lot of the magic from the world. Foreign places aren’t mysterious anymore. I’ve seen a million videos and pictures of every place I want to visit already, and I talk to the people who live there every day. The Burmuda Triangle isn’t something mysterious anymore, The Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, UFOs, everything, it’s all pretty much disproven now. Even ancient Chinese medicine has been peer reviewed and either proven or disproven. Where’s the magic that existed before the internet? I guess in the quantum realm, but that doesn’t have the same type of mystery.

    • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The only people claiming UFOs are disproven are feds or patsies.

      Two eyewitness and a whistleblower testifying seeing nonhuman craft under oath to Congress:
      https://www.c-span.org/video/?529499-1/hearing-unidentified-aerial-phenomena

      If UFOs are so disproven, why is congress trying to declassify projects involving them? And why is the Military Industrial Complex pushing back and claiming that they need to be able to patent reverse-engineered technology?

      I’m not saying believe me, I’m saying that if you take a serious honest look at the phenomenon it’s very plain that there’s something there

  • homura1650@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Quantum mechanics is not magic. Magic specifies the outcome, but not how a system evolves to reach that outcome. Quantum mechanics has precise equations describing how a system will evolve over time, but is famously bad at describing the outcome.

    By the same token, we can see that thermodynamics and conservation laws, while widely accepted, are magic. I have heard legend of a deeper magic known as “Lagragians”, although knowledge of that lost art remains confines to the warlocks’ ivory tower.

    https://xkcd.com/2904/