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If I watch too much fantasy world or read about it too immersively , I think about how all of their powers are normal to them. Light, fire, storms, electricity, the states of water, tides, giraffes, etc., they’re all magical. We’ve just named them and have ways to describe how they work in an orderly, understandable, format.

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Scientists are this world’s wizards

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Ah yes the giraffe, the most magical being

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Quantum mechanics unveils the spaghetti code on which our universe runs

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This is beautiful, it’s poetry.

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String theory… further proof that breaking your spaghetti violates the fundamental laws of the universe.

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breaking your spaghetti

This angers the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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I just want to say that string theory is in all likelihood complete bullshit and I’m tired of people acting like it’s not.

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Even if it’s not bullshit, from what little I understand it’s essentially unprovable. Which makes it useless in science.

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i can’t wait to see the source comments

“this should NOT work, yet it does, if you touch this i will flay you alive”

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Just because you know how something works doesn’t make it not magic

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The dictionary disagrees with you.

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That’s because it’s a dic.

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Sorry, but higher literature (DnD rulebooks) disagree with YOU

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This is Science Memes, not Fantasy Memes lol

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The dictionary sucks.

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Even magic itself loses its magic when you know how it works.

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Does it, really? Or is it “magic” all the way down…? :-D

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As someone who was crazy about magic as a kid and learned a bunch of magic tricks, yes, it does. Really.

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If you understand how quantum mechanics works, why are you keeping it a secret?

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Out of pure spite.

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If you understand magnets you know how magic works. Hell, even aerofoils seem like a glitch in reality.

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Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from science!

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Totally agree. I just witnessed my sister delivering her baby a few days back.

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God doesn’t play with dice
-Einstein

<An infinite number of dice appear at the plank scale>

Tada!
-God

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As a matter of fact, reality is far more exciting than magic. Magic is limited by what our feeble human minds can dream up. Science has shown time and time again that reality is far more complex and far more interesting.

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The difference between magic and science is that magic is centered on humans in the way that the entire cosmos was once thought to rotate around Earth. Both a magical universe and a scientific universe contain rules that humans can discover and tools that humans can use to influence their environment, but a magical universe is for humans and about humans whereas a scientific universe is not even indifferent to humans.

I admit that it would be nice to have gods and even the very fabric of reality care about what I want…

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Sorry, hon. The magical universe may SEEM to be centered around you, but you’re really just experiencing the side benefits of it being centered around me.

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Shut up, Harry Potter.

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That’s, uh… That’s completely not true. I know lots of otherkin magic users. Magic tends to be more popular with otherkin than humans in my experience. Humans are happy to remain in consensus reality because it was built for them. Otherkin need to use magic to find worlds where they can exist.

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What?

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Reality is a social construct and is therefore limited by human imagination.

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