Quote:Given how truly wierd quantum shit can be, this is probably the best rationalization that we're going to find for 'magic.'
I've played with a fanfic idea that at it's core assumes magic alters the quantum threshold over an area and draws it's energy from the process of somehow observing and changing the characteristics of electromagnetic waves from it's balanced wavelike characteristic to a strongly particle characteristic.
Of course, by my understanding of the nature of electromagnetics, it'd be equally possible that psionics are people who have suborgans in their brains that let them create energy and exert it on the causal universe by 'observing' the collapse of photons into waves. ^_^ Refer to any of Catherine Asaro's Skolian Saga novels for a better explanation of how this should actually work.
And, no, I don't think that these two theories neccessarily rule each other out - quite the opposite, actually. Hmm. *notes down for TK40 and Shining Spiral*
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."