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Date Posted: 23:27:14 04/11/02 Thu
Author: Rob
Subject: Re: IC notes about magic 04/10/2002
In reply to: richard 's message, "Re: IC notes about magic 04/10/2002" on 12:38:03 04/11/02 Thu

I have to admit to being reather impressed by the efforts you guys have put into understanding the nature of "magic," if such a thing can be separated from an understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe as a whole. If I had to throw my two cents in, I'd have to agree with Jess that quantum theory posits the most scientifically explainable theory for how this stuff works. If every particle event exist only as a probability wave prior to observation, then the ability to control the outcomes of these events on a macro level, say a billion times at once, would easily explain almost everything we are capapble of doing. Or more aesthetically, assume that every quantum event creates any number of parallel, branching dimensions. Maybe magic is simply the understanding of how to jump our perceptions between these dimensions. That would make paradox simply the effect of jumping too far, to fast, across possible realities. Of course, you may run into problems dealing with Mind-sphere related effects with this paradigm, but I'm sure you could overcome that hurdle eventually. The point is that is really doesn't matter how you look at it. What the existence of magic really proves, is that reality itself is mutable, that what exists is only what we believe, and what we believe, exists. No matter what theory you come up with, it probably can be proven right, and it will also, in a broader sense, be wrong, because your create the world with your belief, and the deeper you dig the more you will create a world with data to match your theories. It's like asking whether the moon existed as a place before 1969. essentially, it didn't, any more than Schroedinger's cat was dead before we opened the box. I feel like I'm ranting now, but I'm sure I did have a point when I started. All I wanted to do was caution you againt thinking that just because something is provable, it's neccessarily *true*.

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