Sure you can apply science to handwavium, but the only consistently reproducible result is is that there are no consistently reproducible results. Sure it's a fertile field, but it's a bit like those fields in Belgium with all the WW1 shells still buried in them. You can plow it, but don't be surprised if it changes shape while you're plowing....
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?