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Reading some of these articles makes me feel like that line from Thor where you get to a point where magic and science sort of blend together as we use and buil
by sukuriant 13y ago
Reading some of these articles makes me feel like that line from Thor where you get to a point where magic and science sort of blend together as we use and build enormous alchemist machines with reproducible effects.
I greatly look forward to the day where we can apply what we've been learning through all this experimentation to design and create things that actively and usefully manipulate particles at this level.
- PhantomGremlin 13y agoVery interesting observation. I hadn't thought of quantum physics as magic before. But it's so weird that "magic" might indeed be the best word to describe it.
- ISL 13y agoPhysics is magic, just measured, tested, and quantified. No need to go as far as the quantum to see it. Play with two bar magnets for twenty minutes on a quiet day [1], try to twist a spinning bicycle wheel [2], or, if you're pressed for time, just hold a thing at least six inches away from everything else and let go [3]. No strings, no wires, no-one behind a curtain nor sleight of hand, but it's still magic, and it happens [4]. [1] Relativistic consequences of quantum-mechanical charge carriers screaming around nuclei generates a field that virtually interacts with other fast moving charge carriers to generate a dipolar force? Occam's razor might land on the side of magic. [2] The first time I did this, with a lead-lined wheel, it threw me across the room, as I was sure everyone else in the class had been faking. [3] We have no idea how it is that things fall. We have a really good theory for it, that agrees with every experimental test ever done, but it gives little insight into the way in which momentum is exchanged between massive bodies. [4] Campy, yes, but when you're studying Physics, you're studying the Force(s).