There Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Or at least the closest thing we have to magic? This is a somewhat serious question. Imagine a being living in a universe without electricity. They are reading a story about a world where electricity exists. Would they think about it the same we way think about magic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free money accepted here Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 No? It's something about burning something and making this thing that goes through wires and poweres everything. It's not magic. GB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lib3l Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 yes, my biology teacher said so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
There Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 No? It's something about burning something and making this thing that goes through wires and poweres everything. It's not magic. GB? Updated the question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyy Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 this is extremely confusing to read and now my head hurts from thinking about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
λngelღмander Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 In a unnverse where electricity does not exist, it WOULD be considered magic. But in ours, because it does exist, and is bound by the laws of physics, it is not magical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmf Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 no. im definitely grateful for electricity though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazza Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 In a unnverse where electricity does not exist, it WOULD be considered magic. But in ours, because it does exist, and is bound by the laws of physics, it is not magical. This pretty much sums it up. The fact that magic has not been proven yet it has multiple 'cases' that haven't been solved are why it's considered an oddity and featured in fiction. Electricity however, does clearly exist, is used in everyday life and has been proven by the laws of physics, so it's not magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punishment_Fatal Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Just think about it how we think about the future. Most (utopian) futures imagine a perfect world where there is no disease and transportation is as simple as clicking a button. Do we necessarily think of these innovations as magic? Not necessarily, as we know it's obtainable. Since man saw electricity from nature, they strived to obtain it for their own use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Дебра Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I'm sure if you told a guy 500 years ago if teenagers would be looking at fox boobs on a 1 inch thick piece of plastic that creates light connected to other 1 inch pieces of plastic around the world where you can share fox boobs, save fox boobs and make your own fox boobs he would have called you insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
∞Ramses Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 In my opinion magnetism is closer to magic than electricity is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboNEET Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 shitposting is magic, look mom i can do magic It's funny how we use and learn about electricity all day. But we don't actually know what it is. Our laws of physics argue that electricity is made out of electrons, but so far noone has been able to isolate "an" electricity and study it. So we're actually not sure what electricity actually is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsun Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 No but the internet is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Teeny Tiny Cat Posted July 17, 2015 Administrators Share Posted July 17, 2015 Magic = things we don't know how to explain. So... yeah, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jams Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I'm sure if you told a guy 500 years ago if teenagers would be looking at fox boobs on a 1 inch thick piece of plastic that creates light connected to other 1 inch pieces of plastic around the world where you can share fox boobs, save fox boobs and make your own fox boobs he would have called you insane. THIS SOOO MUCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professional Map Painter Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 You could say the same about plastics, dynamite or ammonia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0night Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poorest scrub Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Dusk Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 this is how babies are made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heated Bread Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 This topic... facepalm.jpg anyway... Clarke's 3rd law states that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Sort of relevant here I guess, if you want to look at magic as effectively a word for that which is incomprehensible to someone, like how the ICP are baffled by magnets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ǍгᴋᴀɴД ₭ɪлʛ Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I liked how my physic teacher explained magic "Magic is something that can't be explained by science" Although that sounds incredibility open to interpretation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I AM ERROR Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Clarke's third law. In literature, this has also been written as "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it" Edit: I see that a few others have posted this as well. Great minds think alike? (really this is a too long, didn't read scenario) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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