Dartz Wrote:Hmmm.... I always thought of it as raw quantum mechanics. Given how much the human consciousness is clearly hooked into this stuff anyway, what it is depends on the observer and their pre-existing ideas and theories. It a strange form of matter who's wavefunction collapses as much based on the human idea of what it could be, compared to what it physically should be. By it's very nature, it'll be what you want it to be... or what you expect it to be.... although it may not be what the end user expects it to be.Y'know, that would explain why it defied magical analysis in the prologue to Legend of Galactic Girls. Doug was approaching the question "what is handwavium?" with a completely open mind, expecting nothing... and that's exactly the answer he got.
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