Also light is not sentient, i knows when it is being measured and does different things, but its not sentient DO NOT WORRY!!!!!!1!1!!!1!
Ahh, it's no big deal. I know it sounds magical, but there's probably some humdrum explanation...you're probably just popping in and out of different universe in the multiverse whenever you observe a particle, or something mundane like that.
Okay imma need an explanation for the middle bottom and bottom right panels, what are they?
Also love the idea that magic is just science we haven’t explained yet. Most of us would be burned s as witches in the past based on our current knowledge
Solely based on knowledge, yes. In practice most of us wouldn't be able to create a half working lamp from raw materials.
"I call it...FIRE!!! Oh. Shit. You already have that. I don't really know any others."
This is also why at see inventions emerge almost at the same moment from people who don't share knowledge.
A lot of invention is material science.
Even if I know enough to make a modern computer from raw materials, I'm not going to find the necessary industry to refine those raw materials correctly in the 1400s.
Middle bottom is the demon core, an extremely radioactive orb:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
And anyway, there's a new physics demon now:
3.5" in diameter, and 14 pounds. That seems very odd.
Uranium is very dense.
But iridium is twice the density of lead!
The middle bottom is the demon core, and I guess the bottom right is a reactor of some kind
The Cherenkov radiation gives it away that it's a reactor of some sort.
I haven't seen this before, unless it's a nuetron breeder.
The bottom right one looks like a mercury arc valve: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve It reminded me of an old Photonicinduction video https://youtu.be/QY6V2syGnZA
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I have a habit of calling things 'technological magic' because that's what it is in my mind. The fact that the universal laws and logic exist in such a way to allow things like computers or the huge complexity of living things and AI matrixies is nothing short of miraculous when you think about it.
In terms of the bottom middle: that's the demon core. Science Thor (a.k.a. Kyle Hill) does awesome videos on nuclear and radioactive stuffs which can explain it better than I could.
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I don't know if I should be proud or not that I recognise a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
I only know this because of ElectroBoom
Weird how magic and mystery stops being magic when scientists have words for it.
One day we'll discover the afterlife, but we'll just call them "Post-Human Conciousness Wells" or something, and insist it totally isn't the same thing as that ancient superstition.
Cmon, you wanna tell me the world is purely material when our math literally uses imaginary numbers to make sense of things?
Imaginary numbers are merely a poorly named mathematical construct used to reconcile the empirically observable phenomena of nature (e.g., summations of waves). They’re the means by which we achieve mathematical closure under exponentiation. You could call them whatever the F you want, so long as they could be used to represent vectors in the complex plane.
What reason do you have to believe in anything outside of material nature?
It's called a joke
There's a really good science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley called Immortality, Inc. where scientists in the future have discovered that there is an afterlife, but the only way to ensure you get there is a medical procedure and you can only do that if you can afford it. That's just the beginning, there's a huge amount of worldbuilding, but that's the main theme of the book.
actual theoretical physicist here: "imaginary numbers" are just poorly named, there's nothing imaginary about them. You might as well use 2D geometric algebra to do the exact same job (treating real numbers as scalars and imaginary numbers as pseudoscalars)
We have cats that can be alive and dead at the same time. Perfectly normal, no magic involved.
And we can make you age slower than your twin brother, just go on a very fast space trip. Still no magic needed. It's totally legit
Magic is just what you don't understand. Everything is a mechanism. Even if there was magic, a human soul, the afterlife, God, it would still operate under certain logical rules and principles. Eventually, unless there was something keeping us from obtaining knowledge, we would be able to apply science to magical forces. Science will eventually understand everything it is possible to understand, which might honestly be everything.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Arthur C. Clarke
Yeah people used to think this way. But the Halting Problem proved that not everything in mathematics is solvable. If we can't solve every mathematical problem, there's gonna be things in science that aren't solvable either.
Sorry for upsetting your belief system, but it's simply not possible for us to know everything. Just one of those quirks of life, it's been mathematically proven that not everything can be proven.
We can totally explain how the universe works. It's random! But it's also not random! We can explain why, but you won't understand it. Not magic!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
What's the last one? (Bottom right)
A mercury arc rectifier. The mercury vapor is ionized, and used for increasing the current carrying capacity of the component – compared to how much a traditional valve design with complete vacuum would work.
In short, it makes DC out of AC.
Courtesy of google lens
https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/powering-mail-rail/
In short a rectifier for post office railway?!
Edit: contents and Spelling
Stop!!! Get those partial derivatives and upside down triangles away from me! I don't want to see those abominations I learned in my electrical studies.
But, but, the Euler-Lagrange equation is really cool!
My favorite is: we know how old the fucking universe is just by looking up at the night sky.
Or even better: we somehow know our planet got popped by another planet 4.5 billion years ago because reasons.
Roll 2d10 to synthesize technetium.
This is good shit lmao
where spherical metal cow?
Did you check the frictionless vacuum?
Also I'm surprised you didn't mention LEDs or photovoltaics. That's some real witchcraft right there.
Also induction heating. Might as well just be teleporting in hellfire to cook your food.
Needs pictures of quantum locking and the rope trick
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!
god i love those big old tube AC converters
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