Timeline for Could a world where two neigbouring countries, only one of which uses 'magic', exist?
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| Feb 5, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | Alice | Okay, I guess I misunderstood, sorry for that, edited answer to incorporate that. However, the three moral reasons provided could still work. | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 15:53 | history | edited | Alice | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | L.R. | Yes, definitely, there is a personal factor in Harry Potter. And I see what you mean. This was why I put the 'magic' in quotation marks in the title. What I actually meant was that actions performed by magicians seem completely counter-intuitive to the scientists. Then again, who is to say there is no reasonable explanation to Harry Potter? After all, though it is based on emotions, there is a clear correlation: The happier you are, the better your Patronus. Depends on your dopamine level. This way any magical universe can be explained with scientific notions. | |
| Feb 4, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | Alice | I've read Harry Potter long time ago, but I seem to recall a great number of occasions, when characters would frantically repeat same words and gestures time and time again, yet failing until they reached a right state of mind, imagined the right thing or whatever. For example, the Patronicus spell, IIRC, wasn't working right till he actually needed it. Because as soon as actions can be repeated by repeating only the words or whatever else, those actions become an object of science. If current science doesn't have the proper theory yet, it doesn't mean that hot superconductors are magic. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 9:18 | comment | added | L.R. | I wouldn't be so sure about the personal component. The use of magic would be the ability to perform actions that connot be described by science, even seemingly contradictory to science - teleportation, for example. But that does not necessarily mean that same actions won't lead to the same results. In the Harry Potter universe, the use of magic follows a code, the spells they learn. Now yes, in that universe there exists a personal factor, but it's not obligatory. | |
| Feb 1, 2016 at 15:59 | history | answered | Alice | CC BY-SA 3.0 |