looks at schematic
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!
eyebrow dance
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
Hang on. I've seen that tattoo!
If that is a dick, it looks like it has some very serious STDs.
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
We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.
An actual textbook cover. I mean... An ancient grimoire of the dark arts
Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel
The bible of my people
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.
Um akshually, that's a rectification circle.
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.
Clarke's Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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.
that's crazy to think about. which NT is responsible for sending a signal along my vagus nerve to my brain? what NTs regulate the functions of the sympathetic nervous system? how can transport as quickly as my body reacts? I need to know more!
how quickly do NTs even travel? it feels like electricity because it's nearly instantaneous! how do they do that so fast???
it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous!
It takes hundreds of ms for a signal to go from your brain to your foot. Electricity on wires travels several times around the world in that time.
But for most of the distance the signals do travel as electricity. (At least the ones that get to be electricity, our brain has several kinds of signals.) It's just a particularly slow form of electricity.
I was really hoping someone would catch this. I'm glad someone else was also paying attention in biology
the diagram is an AC to DC converter.
Full bridge rectifier¿
Thick eye brows intensifies!
First thing that went through my mind lol
Yes, with Mehdi's enthusiastic pronounciation, +1
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.
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.
RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!
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).
(in exchange for the ability to go outside)
Real
Yeah but it's too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔
No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items
./clears_throat.sh
That would be El Señor Archmagos, to you.
Alabado sea el Omnissiah, etc.
That diagram is just heat with extra steps.
That's what someone who doesn't understand magic would say.
Follow the spell incorrectly and that is indeed all you would get.
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.
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