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That’s magic to the 21st century man, who isn’t retarded, magic is literally just “magic” in the proxy sense. Stage magic logic. “How did he do that?”. Ignorance is powerful when the magician fools men in to believing something that it isn’t.
But stop a candy bar wrapper a thousand years into the past and it may or may not start a cult.
>I think that's still way different than if an alien shows you they can transform into a different looking creature, breathe fire, fly without any obvious device or eldritch technology that we can see.
As another said, if you can’t see where the conservation of mass is going, then it’s probably higher dimensional to make up for the lack of violent energy releases. It may not even be magic to that creature if they’re all capable of doing it. Like how the elves in lord of the rings don’t view or understand their works as magic.
>A lot of the fantasy depictions we know about magic portrays it as purely coming from some kind of invisible energy source/weave/mana
Yes. The implications are horrifying. It’s more advanced than anything in typical science fiction which usually takes place in three dimensions.
It’s like “solidified shadows”, or “solidified darkness”, and darkness isn’t anything but the absence of light. So… what is it really? What’s IN there making it “solid”?
The implications of physics makes magic all the more magical, or horrifying. We’re not even going into talks of how magic in history played out, which was usually the realm of lethal coincidence, circumstance that kills, etc. The ability to take out your enemy, anonymously, from the safety of your basement a thousand miles away, is a lot more terrifying than any sniper could ever hope to be. If you can dominate the mind from that distance, it’s even worse.
The ability to manipulate man - the thing that drops nuclear bombs - is terrifying.
