From:clark.sanders@marduk.org
To:all-call@nation.fan
Handwavium appears to respond to believing whatever we believe it is. So Captain Fnord sees nanoscopic manipulators to the Planck level, and the Jason gets
results from combining scientific theory with the laws of magic. So it's rather what the person believes that occurs, and so a Christian priest could
probably transubstantiate handwaved water into wine, and a biomod for an Asatru follower might involve berserking. Since this is handwavium, however, water
probably turns into something close to wine, like grape juice.or red-colored water.. The berserking has disadvantages all on it's own without adding in
handwavium's tendency to embellish.
About the antigravity effect, I already thought this could be done with diamagnetic levitation, i.e the frog experiment. One of my colleagues went and created
a handwaved mana detector, or it's supposed to work like one anyhow. So far it only detects handwavium and has crashed once already.
The Jason's dissertation on science of genetics and inheritance brought an intriguing conclusion to mind. If one had the proper temperament, "poetry
in one's soul" if you will, would it be possible to form legends and stories out of handwavium itself and then breed with each other forming a new
species that arose out of handwavium? I believe the Warlock series by Stasheff called this witchweed.
My theory on magic is that magic is simply the term for stuff that we don't completely comprehend yet. Science is the stuff that we can apply our
comprehension of to form new applications for. So technically, handwavium is magic until we understand what it is, and then science will take over.
I experimented later and asked a Christian priest to do transubstantiation, and rather than handwaved water to wine, we got handwaved water to blood.
OBviously not enough of an representative sample, but I thought it was interesting.
Dr. Clark Sanders. M.D
To:all-call@nation.fan
Handwavium appears to respond to believing whatever we believe it is. So Captain Fnord sees nanoscopic manipulators to the Planck level, and the Jason gets
results from combining scientific theory with the laws of magic. So it's rather what the person believes that occurs, and so a Christian priest could
probably transubstantiate handwaved water into wine, and a biomod for an Asatru follower might involve berserking. Since this is handwavium, however, water
probably turns into something close to wine, like grape juice.or red-colored water.. The berserking has disadvantages all on it's own without adding in
handwavium's tendency to embellish.
About the antigravity effect, I already thought this could be done with diamagnetic levitation, i.e the frog experiment. One of my colleagues went and created
a handwaved mana detector, or it's supposed to work like one anyhow. So far it only detects handwavium and has crashed once already.
The Jason's dissertation on science of genetics and inheritance brought an intriguing conclusion to mind. If one had the proper temperament, "poetry
in one's soul" if you will, would it be possible to form legends and stories out of handwavium itself and then breed with each other forming a new
species that arose out of handwavium? I believe the Warlock series by Stasheff called this witchweed.
My theory on magic is that magic is simply the term for stuff that we don't completely comprehend yet. Science is the stuff that we can apply our
comprehension of to form new applications for. So technically, handwavium is magic until we understand what it is, and then science will take over.
I experimented later and asked a Christian priest to do transubstantiation, and rather than handwaved water to wine, we got handwaved water to blood.
OBviously not enough of an representative sample, but I thought it was interesting.
Dr. Clark Sanders. M.D