looks at schematic
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!
eyebrow dance
it gender transitions the AC to DC
And generates heat!
Squint at this (from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia) and these might be either ancient sigils or electronic symbols*.
EDIT: Fixed a typo
This one's a bit interestingly shaped...
It's a house fly!
Got a lot going on there mister
We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.
That summoning circle is gonna need some filtering... Jus sayin...
While it helps the ritual it isn't strictly required, so it can be easier for an apprentice to achieve.
Lightning would be wild magic
Makes sense. Could be harnessed to do something probably but incredibly dangerous to do so.
Said it before and I'll say it again: just because you understand the magic doesn't make it any less magical. A wizard may know the ins and outs of their spells, but they're still spells. Our entire universal is fucking magical, we just happen to have a decent understanding of why (some) of it functions the way it does. Jiggle a quark here and another may jiggle the same way somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, that's fucking wild and magical and incredible, and just because we have some level of understanding behind the mechanics doesn't make it not magic. It just makes it a hard magic system.
Like the way you think Dharms
Um akshually, that's a rectification circle.
When we figure out how to manipulate elctro-weak at scale, it will be magic.
Electro-mag is pretty crazy already, I agree. The ICP can't even figure out how they work.
I'd expand it to electromagnetic fields or something instead of just electricity.
While I fully agree, I thought the distinction was unbreakable rules.
The laws of physics can’t be broken, even, under any circumstances, everywhere, at any time.
Whereas magic is more like there is an exception to every rule kind of deal. It’s far more like software, as in it’s mostly fully logically consistent except for random spots where devs took some shortcuts to make life easier.
I think the “exception to every rule” part is really dependent on which type of magic the writer is using. Many writers do establish hard rules for their magic. In those cases, it’s less “magic is the exception” and more “magic is engrained into the laws of physics.”
I don't think magic is objective; I think it is in the eye of the beholder.
If the audience don't understand it, or can be distracted from seeing the truth of it, it's magic or a miracle or whatever to them. And the magician - if they know what they're doing - can wield power over the rubes.
So before you understand - say, magnetism - better, lodestones can be seen as magical or heaven-sent.
There'll be physical phenomena today like 'spooky action at a distance' or something where even quite learned observers might not 100% know the laws of physics. Some exploit of that can appear as magical until the laws are figured out and well communicated.
If it turns out that the underlying laws are stochastic rather than deterministic, then there's always going to be some grey areas i think.
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.
It's chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.
Also, that's a control spell, not a summoning one.
Listen here witch!!
For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like ... what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?
Why in hell would the universe be this way?
Bcz it's a simulation, or god is fucking with us. Who knows which one it is 🤷♀️
The mages of Electrical Engineering reseach the tools and formulars to control the magic. The mages of Hardware Engineering develop under great effort the sigils and rituals of how the rocks must be processed. The Warlocks of the CPU use the near infinit possibilities of algorithms and the power of the evolved rocks to create worlds nobody could ever have imagined (in exchange for the ability to go outside).
./clears_throat.sh
That would be El Señor Archmagos, to you.
Alabado sea el Omnissiah, etc.
But the summoning circle doesn't do anything on its own, you have to build it and then go and find the electricity to plug into it yourself
Pretty sure that’s how it works in a lot of fiction. You draw the circle then activate it by putting in mana.
Many summoning circles require a sacrifice, and this one is no different. This one requires a sacrifice of AC to summon DC.
The law of equivalent exchange...
Hm, the stuff in wires is electrical current, but the stuff in nerves is static electricity based on an electrochemical gradient. Yeah i guess that all falls under the heading of electricity. No quibbles, carry on.
current does flow in nerves
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