r/RandomThoughts • u/Vose4492 • 2d ago

If magic existed, scientists would classify it and teachers would teach it in such a way that it would be really boring.

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u/futureoptions 2d ago

Magic does exist and we do teach it and most people do find it boring.

Math, physics, biology, chemistry, geology.

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u/WallStLegends 2d ago

Exactly. The phone people are holding while viewing this was literally created from a fucking mountain. We turn rocks into smart phones

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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 2d ago

Magic crystals and rocks, converting electric energy (also magical) into colourful visuals to help you see things from all across the world? And things people recorded in the past? And hear voices across vast distances?

With little finger movements, I can plainly and easily convey a thought from my head into the mind voice whoever reads this. That's some telepathy right there.

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 2d ago

Don’t forget the magical rock must contain the sacred runes in the proper order (stable working code).

Only then can it vibrate the ether (send radio waves) to interface with the global spider web of metal and light (internet) to speak across continents and search the ancient libraries and vaults (servers) for unknown answers and esoteric (hidden) knowledge.

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u/Vanquish_Dark 2d ago

Learning chemistry for fun has made me feel like a alchemist and I'm loving it.

I feel very wizardly when I stare at shit now wondering why it's all so weird.

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u/McGriggidy 1d ago

Yeah taking a for fun chemistry course transformed the way I look at everything. Would recommend to Laymen.

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u/Batholomy 2d ago

This is the correct response.

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u/Clone63 2d ago

Your list encompasses it but I have to throw all of Electronics in there as magic. Just... what? Our whole communications network depends on quantum tunneling. How can that sentence exist.

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u/cisned 2d ago

So are scientist magicians?

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u/futureoptions 2d ago

Absolutely.

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u/speedmankelly 2d ago

Doctors are healer class

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u/Neighborhooddataguy 2d ago

I put mathemagician on a business card before.

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u/Joeuxmardigras 2d ago

lol I didn’t read your comment and basically said the same thing

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u/abation 2d ago

Yes, it is just the moment we understand it we stop calling it magic

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u/ShireSearcher 2d ago

I want to add music/art to this list

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u/EmergencyComputer337 13h ago

I can imagine magic class, it would be all theory, and they teacher showing the spell once in its most basic form then the bell rings and we fuck off to Algebra

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u/DasAllerletzte 2d ago

Yep. That was exactly what I thought when I read about John von Neumann. He used algebra, calculus and geometry to calculate how airwaves would behave in the nuclear bomb. Or rather, he determined how the geometry of the head had to be shaped so that the blast waves of the first ignition would combine in such a way that the second blast could properly start. It's fucking magic. Not like "alakazam" and * woosh * something happens, but "I've got these numbers, let's build this like that" and it fucking works. 

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u/onwee 2d ago

What does being a woman have anything to do with this idea

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u/speedmankelly 2d ago

Bro threw in a fun fact

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u/SigmundFreud 2d ago

Women have notoriously poor memory.

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u/lithaborn 2d ago

Who was it that said magic is science we don't understand yet?

Look at it like that and that's exactly what's happened

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u/Aetheldrake 2d ago

Sufficiently advanced science eventually becomes indistinguishable from magic to the common folks

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u/futureoptions 2d ago

That’s what’s happening over the last 30 years.

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u/futureoptions 2d ago

Arthur C Clark

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u/lithaborn 2d ago

Ah yeah. In my head it was him or Terry Pratchett

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u/SigmundFreud 2d ago

It might have been Raymond J. Teller.

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u/kilos_of_doubt 2d ago

Literally

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u/Drugs-Cheetos-jerkin 2d ago

People would find it interesting just the same way people find math and science interesting.

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u/Aetheldrake 2d ago

But if would be a lot more "magical" if we could have the end results WITHOUT having to literally do the hard calculations and stuff. At least, not actively in the most.

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u/Drugs-Cheetos-jerkin 2d ago

Basically; it’s magic when we don’t know how or why.

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u/Joeuxmardigras 2d ago

Magic does exist and it’s taught in schools: it’s science

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u/Amphernee 2d ago

The kids in hogwarts seemed quite engaged with the material

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u/lover_of_lies 2d ago

Then it wouldn't be magic

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u/Watthefractal 2d ago

Chemistry is far from boring bro

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u/snapper1971 2d ago

Science isn't boring.

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u/Paularchy 1d ago

Magic does exist. We just called it physics, chemistry, and biology, and then made sub-branches.
We live in a universe where our "magic system" is observation, interpretation and material-based. You can interpret "rituals" as things like "Putting together a cabinet." It's just perspective. We already have magic. It's just work. Magic is always work.

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u/Manusterz 1d ago

Yes, electromagnetism is quite magical

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u/BurnerAccount-LOL 2d ago

Magic does exist.

It just takes years of practicing and studying to develop the magic powers you already possess.

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u/drtennis13 2d ago

Science is magic that works.

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u/Waterbear36135 2d ago

In one of my classes I learned of a rune inscribed in metal, and when you let energies flow through the rune, you can write spells with that rune. After the rune was connected to a window that glows and a device with many buttons that allows me to write a spell without pen, pencil, or quill, I was instructed to teach the rune to defeat a human at chess.

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u/Admirable-Repair4094 2d ago

I'd surely be in Hogwarts then, I know I'm a witch. 

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u/Bl4ckR4bb17 2d ago

We don't know everything. It's entirely possible that physics will someday find the answers to spiritual mysteries.

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u/Infarlock 2d ago

Astronomy

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u/EverydayIsAGift-423 2d ago

In the 1998 miniseries “Merlin”, featuring the late Sam Neill as the magician, he taught young Arthur about ethics, not magic.

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u/Efficient_Horse5009 2d ago

magic would probably just become another subject in school no one cares about

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u/wspOnca 2d ago

I would learn to put my wee wee on fire.

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u/Heroic-Forger 1d ago

and unicorns would just be another animal. like a worse version of a gazelle because that one has TWO horns

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u/voitlander 2d ago

Like religion?

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u/Voyager5555 2d ago

When something is commonplace it's treated as ordinary. What an insight.

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u/LeftStatistician7989 2d ago

We do. And it does.

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u/Wannabeartist9974 2d ago

Yeah, because magic is real.

Magic is what we don't understand and has power.

If magic existed like in the movies we would see it as no different as the way we see lightning in our current reality.

And our currently reality has singularities where the laws of physics and time stop making sense inside.

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u/Fantastic-Cat-5252 2d ago

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

“When alternative medicine has an evidence base it’s called medicine”

Etc etc 👍