video ► un: girl on top

[unas]

( 2am crazy ideas should never be allowed but here she is, only marginally more fleshed out and with a partner in crime )

I’ve seen some of the magic here, dragons and people that can use it, but is all magic the same? Can everyone that uses it do the same things or is it different in every universe?

( she told him she was going to learn everything about it )

The physics of this universe are different to the one I know, anything like magic doesn’t exist there but something makes this world different.

(Ok so it wasn’t the most eloquent phrasing, maybe he could help polish it up a little bit)

I haven’t been here long, so I haven’t seen any magic first hand, but from what I know of the mythologies of my world, everything works a little differently…and some things are thought to be magic and end up having a plausible explanation. So how can we tell what is magic and what might have a scientific explanation?

(or maybe not.)

( she tips her head to the side to look at him with a no kidding kind of look )

If magic is biological in nature, children’s stories aside, what makes it different to… superhuman strength? ( not at all using herself as an example there ) Or different organ placement. Can it be replicated with enough knowledge?

( una )

And if it can, would it give us an advantage in this place or at the very least, can we get magic and science to work together?

( that’s the question. from all of the different universes, with all of the different kinds of magic can they work together? she shrugs slightly because he summed it up pretty well: what magic do you know, does technology work/exist/etc in your universe? or just educate their silly space brains about magic )

[ una & chris ]

Comments

un: wooden dice.

[strewth]

There ain't no difference. You're thinking small, luv.

[unas]

I'm thinking as someone who'd never encountered it before coming here.

What should I be thinking?

[strewth]

Way I see it, science, it's like a hammer, right? Only does one thing. Maybe two, if you use the claw. But it always does what it's told.

Magic has moods. Magic does what you believe it will. If you think it's limited, it is. Only rule for magic is, there's always a price.

[unas]

What do you mean it does what you believe it will? Like your thought creates an effect?

un: Black Prince; text

[blackscales]

I suppose I could ask what you consider the limits of science, by your own definition.

[unas]

Biological or physical?

[blackscales]

Both, broader.

You ask if science and magic can work together, and the obvious answer is yes. The question is what you want to achieve with it. You need a clearer goal than 'advantage'. All knowledge gives an advantage, but what is it you want to achieve? Magic can achieve many things. There is no way you will learn every possible combination of abilities, every possible outcome. Each world has different subsets, different styles. Start with a smaller, achievable goal. If you wanted to replicate something specific, what would it be?

un: absterge

[downswing]

You wish... to study those possessed of magic?



( Ding-ding-ding. )

[unas]

Learn from.

[downswing]

Sorcery comes at cost of drainage. Supplements technology.

un: bear stuffing

[failed_astrophysics]

Study sounds like we want to perform experiments. Not like that. I'd rather ask questions. I want to learn from people who have experience with it.

[downswing]

To what end?

un: dr.mccoy

[biomed]

( he sounds slightly hoarse, but that's just a constant now. the wry tone's pretty usual though: )

I'm as magical as a post, but science and magic are currently keepin' me upright, so I'd say they can successfully complement one another.

Good luck getting 'magic' to show concretely on a tricorder though.

[unas]

I wasn't thinking of a tricorder.

( she wasn't jumping to study anyone even if she did want to understand it. she'd take peoples answers rather than try and actually look at genetics or their body )

I'd also assume that how magic affects us is different to being able to do it.

[biomed]

( he won't divulge any info on those who let him scan them without their say-so either, luckily. mutual ethical win )

Best we have right now; magic's kinda edging out the sciences for analytical tools around here. But I get what you mean.

( .....all right, because it'll hurt him to not ask, )

How are you doing? It's been a while.

[failed_astrophysics]

[Una's told him about McCoy, so he recognizes the username.]

I don't think it will, unless we can recalibrate it somehow, but we might lower its battery life by doing so.

[biomed]

Chargin' isn't an issue for the moment, Jim and I worked that out. Pinpointing just what we ought to be looking for though...

( okay so that was mostly Jim who jury-rigged a solution.

also, hey, so guess who hadn't actually looked at the feed because he was in the middle of preparing slides? this guy.

who also lets the end of his sentence trail off, because he's finally glanced over and promptly froze in surprise. )

video; un: owl lady

[traaaaaash]

Well, no, it's not all the same. Where I'm from, there are at least two distinct ways of doing magic.

As for what makes it superhuman strength, can superhuman strength do this?

[ She takes out a small, square piece of note paper with a plant glyph on it and taps on it, which makes a small flower grow. ]

[unas]

I think you know your own answer to that. I've seen some magic, I don't need displays, though you're the first to mention something more specific. You said two ways of doing magic?

[traaaaaash]

Well, most witches have a bile sac that enables us to do magic. Like this.

[ She draws a glowing circle in front of her in the air -- which promptly breaks into pieces rather pathetically. ]

As you can see, mine's not really working anymore. That's where the glyphs come into play.

Basically, if you don't have innate magic, hand drawn is fine.

un: ivory doll | video;

[spellsandcharms]

[ If she's looking for something to study, Sarah won't be volunteering. But, ]

I've never seen science work as efficiently as magic.

[failed_astrophysics]

[Pike's going to jump in here for a few minutes.]

How is magic more efficient?

[spellsandcharms]

Fewer steps. While science is busy studying, magic is fixing the problem.

It's usually quicker, too.

[ On account of the fewer steps. ]

un: yiling laozu

[weifinder]

Far as I can tell, the shape of it differs world to world. Magic as it's called and understood here is not really present in my world, not in the same ways. The energy used for it here is separate, but compatible with the internal energies and external energies we cultivate for use back home. Even our talismans and those made here have parallels, different ways they deliver instructions to be activated, and producing results.

As far as using magic and science together, I'm an inventor, that's part of what I do. Works brilliantly! Also explosively, it depends. The explosions can be quite educational!

[failed_astrophysics]

[He can't get passed it, as much as he might want to respond to the rest of what was said.]

Explosively?