Timeline for If the laws of conservation of energy remain the same, can I change everything else?
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| Jan 10, 2023 at 23:41 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | For a great illustration of this, see Brandon Sanderson's The Lost Metal, set in the world of Mistborn where they explicitly refer to advancements in the magical "Metallic Arts" as technological progress. There's a conversation where the characters explicitly deny that the (familiar to them and well-studied) Metallic Arts are magical in nature, and concede that magics used by a visitor from a different world of the Cosmere are probably not really magic, but that guy over there with the really weird powers? Yeah, that's totally magic. | |
| Jan 10, 2023 at 12:08 | comment | added | Rob | Clearly, you need the rules to unpredictably change with time to keep them exciting. Think of the excitement when waking up and not knowing if energy or momentum will be conserved today. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 19:55 | comment | added | Kevin Kostlan | It would be boooring for the characters but it could be quite fun for the readers. Think of Greg Egan's Orthogonal and Dichronauts. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 9:21 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 8, 2023 at 19:55 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |