Quote:The thing about scientist is that unlike priests, who are always right, they are never right.
Nonsense, that's like saying computers will never get smaller than room-sized. Handwavium is technology, not magic. As the underlying principles are discovered and understood, more control is achieved, and the quirks begin to damp out. The Professor understands this, which is why everybody's so scared of him.
Take Newton forinstance he completly forgot to take the speed of light into account so most of his calulations are of. Einstein fixed the big problems with newtonian physics, but enough problems remain to say that Einstein is probably wrong too, there has just not been enough time yet to explain how einstein went wrong. Some might say that they where almost right, but almost right is still wrong. We should dread the day that scientist are right, though I doubt it will come, since we are always figuring out that the world is bigger than we though it was.
The same way that building buildings isn't all sciene, or making computer games isn't all science I doubt handwavium will ever be an exact science. Granted science can help one understand the limitations and it can push those same limitations, and it gives the underpinnings to make it happen science alone is not enough. That is why there are arhitects, Interior desingers, game desingers, etc. They are not scientist or engineers but they are craftsmen. I'm sure that handwavium will at some point be relativly well understood, and that like any new science it will make hughe advances in it's early years, much like computers have been doing/are doing, but I doubt it will ever be completly understood. There will always be a new frontier after we reach the horizon of our current imagination.
Edit: Arg, can't do nested quotes.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."