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Semiconductors Are the Closest Thing to Magic in the Modern World
- giantg2 6y agoI don't like the title. We know how semiconductors work. I would think that magic would be something that we have no idea how it works. Not the best example, but off the top of my head I would say aluminum salts in vaccines - we know they stimulate the immune system and promote antibody production, but we don't know why or how.
- emteycz 6y agoFor me, magic is something against physics. What you're saying is just 'too complicated'.
- giantg2 6y agoI guess I was using the historical view of magic - something unexplainable must be magic. Technically nothing can go against physics, only against our current understanding of physics. Thus it would be similar to my example - just too complicated.
- emteycz 6y agoWho knows what can go against physics - I generally dislike the simulation hypothesis, but this feels like the right place for it, among other near impossibilities.
- ksaj 6y agoI thought quantum mechanics would be closer to magic, and getting ever closer as we study it more. Pretty much everything about it feels like magic, since it doesn't fit in very well with our macro world observations. Even slobber-proof descriptions open deeper rabbit holes, since "this thing we don't understand very well" must be explained using "this other thing we don't understand at all" etc. until you find it simpler to just treat it like magic. Even Einstein thought it was spooky.