looks at schematic
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!
eyebrow dance
it gender transitions the AC to DC
And generates heat!
so, from bi to either gay or straight, unless it passes an inverter, then becomes bi again
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
I heard the “OUTCH!” In this image.
Lightning would be wild magic
Makes sense. Could be harnessed to do something probably but incredibly dangerous to do so.
And some people are wild mages
Just ask Doc Brown.
1.21 jigawatts.
It’s chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.
Also, that’s a control spell, not a summoning one.
Listen here witch!!
I was really hoping someone would catch this. I’m glad someone else was also paying attention in biology
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.
Clarke’s Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
My version seems like another good corollary.
That diagram is just heat with extra steps.
That’s what someone who doesn’t understand magic would say.
Follow the spell incorrectly and that is indeed all you would get.
That’s what I was thinking. Depending on the supply that’ll start a fire.
It’s a basic AC rectifier, the resistor represents an arbitrary DC load. You use similar circuits all the time, though generally with additional failsafes and some mechanism of smoothing out the rectified current.
You think a rectified transformer is a magic circle? Get a load of the Smith Chart
That summoning circle is gonna need some filtering… Jus sayin…
We don’t know what the fuck consciousness is.
In any case, it’s powered with electricity.
Is it even something that’s powered?
For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like … what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?
That’s… huh…
Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???
(Unless you’re a physicist, in which case… fuck)
I mean, imagine if friction worked like this. You’d push a heavy object … and it would move to the left (or maybe the right?) like it was on ice.
FWIW I do have a Physics undergraduate degree. It doesn’t help in this case.
Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but… I don’t know much beyond electrons moving between their shells
Why in hell would the universe be this way?
Bcz it’s a simulation, or god is fucking with us. Who knows which one it is 🤷♀️
Um akshually, that’s a rectification circle.
When we figure out how to manipulate elctro-weak at scale, it will be magic.
Electro-mag is pretty crazy already, I agree. The ICP can’t even figure out how they work.
Explain, please
When the environment is energetic enough, the electromagnetic force and the weak force unify into the electroweak force. The weak interaction controls radioactive decay.
We can control electromagnetic force “at scale”, IMO. It’s not freely, but we have networks of electromagnetic systems that span continents.
If we could control the weak force at the same scale… I’m not sure what wonders we might unlock. At the very least, I imagine we could “clean” instead of just “contain” radioactive waste, at least low-level stuff.
If we had control over the weak force:
- We can likely turn elements into other elements at will
- We can manufacture safe decay sources for a new class of nuclear energy
- We can probably create safe “decay batteries” tuned to their specific use cases. Batteries that last for tens of thousands the lifespan of current chemical ones.
- Potentially engineer with neutrinos. Imagine communication via neutrinos, you could transmit straight through the earth.
I mean, with control over matter like that, at the scale of electricity, Star Trek matter replicators would be a thing.
Didn’t CERN just momentarily turn lead into gold?
That’s really cool. I figured it could obviously be done with fission, but I didn’t think we could just strip protons out of a nucleus. Cool share
Yeah but it’s too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔
No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items
Hello every wizard protagonist in every fantasy YA novel ever.
While I fully agree, I thought the distinction was unbreakable rules.
The laws of physics can’t be broken, even, under any circumstances, everywhere, at any time.
Whereas magic is more like there is an exception to every rule kind of deal. It’s far more like software, as in it’s mostly fully logically consistent except for random spots where devs took some shortcuts to make life easier.
I don’t think magic is objective; I think it is in the eye of the beholder.
If the audience don’t understand it, or can be distracted from seeing the truth of it, it’s magic or a miracle or whatever to them. And the magician - if they know what they’re doing - can wield power over the rubes.
So before you understand - say, magnetism - better, lodestones can be seen as magical or heaven-sent.
There’ll be physical phenomena today like ‘spooky action at a distance’ or something where even quite learned observers might not 100% know the laws of physics. Some exploit of that can appear as magical until the laws are figured out and well communicated.
If it turns out that the underlying laws are stochastic rather than deterministic, then there’s always going to be some grey areas i think.
RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!
