It’s not random, you can’t simulate the universe with a 1d10… you need ∞d10 to get the right probability distribution for each throw. Luckily it adds up to a 1d10 when you throw an actual 1d10, just don’t ask why.
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.
If we setup to disprove that light is particles, no luck, it’s a particle. If we setup to disprove that light is a wave, no luck, it’s a wave.
I understand there’s some reasonable quantum explanations, but many of those have some very weird implications. Last time I tried to wrap my head around it, we were still working on disproving whichever of the quantum theories we can disprove. That’ll be nice because it’ll likely rule out a lot of silly theories, while leaving an equally silly but probably true, theory standing.
Technetium sounds like a name for the cool new superscience material in Iron Man’s ARC Reactor that makes Tony Stark get a last resort dark side superpower, not the 43rd element on the periodic table… I already called dibs on naming an armored superhero Technetium though, sorry!
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
Suppose, we want to make an electric lamp (an oil lamp would be too easy, you just need a vessel, fuel and a wick).
Bill of materials
Generator magnet a piece of iron to be magnetized copper for wires some more iron for the armature some more scrap metal/wood/leather to make a crank and structure to house the whole thing, leather for making a pulley system for gearing Alternatively, make a lead-acid battery, or some other type of galvanic battery, depending on the available materials.
Lightbulb carbon rod for the filament (pencil lead would be ideal but I’m pretty sure charcoal will do) glass tube for the bulb itself Some copper for the connectors
Soldering Hot piece of metal or flame Pine rosin for flux Lead, tin or silver
Sprengel pump A bunch of glass tubing Mercury
Hot flame for soldering/glass blowing* Calcium carbide Water Tubing Nozzle Tin can as a reaction vessel
Equipment A forge
*no idea how I would solve the pressurized oxygen problem. Maybe instead of a tin can, use a pressure vessel for the reaction and use an old carburator (hooked up in reverse) to draw in air with the acetylene. Also, a nozzle that can take the heat… clay maybe?
Also, I just pulled this out of my ass and would probably kill myself trying to build something that wouldn’t work in the first place. So yeah, build an oil lamp, torch or candle and try not to burn everything down. It would still be a half-assed attempt at a lamp. Don’t sell yourself short.
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.
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.
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.
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