Proginoskes, if that's the framework you want to go with, feel free. (As Kohran implied above and Doug is likely to mention during the Harry Potter Step, there are plenty of different frameworks for magic.) I worry that it has a second-order effect of making handwaved devices only temporarily functional, though.
Is handwavium a magical thing, or a paraphysical substance that can mimic magic and superscience, or a construct of thought that responds to thought (much like a Lensman's Lens but in a different manner), or the extrusion into reality of the power of a benevolent god, or a mundane focus that allows someone to use magical ability subconsciously, or a physical expression of Haruhi and Yuki's reality-warping abilities that they cast off so that they could become "normal," or something else altogether? We've never answered that question, although I vaguely recall it being asked and dropped sometime in the previous decade...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Is handwavium a magical thing, or a paraphysical substance that can mimic magic and superscience, or a construct of thought that responds to thought (much like a Lensman's Lens but in a different manner), or the extrusion into reality of the power of a benevolent god, or a mundane focus that allows someone to use magical ability subconsciously, or a physical expression of Haruhi and Yuki's reality-warping abilities that they cast off so that they could become "normal," or something else altogether? We've never answered that question, although I vaguely recall it being asked and dropped sometime in the previous decade...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012