Spica75 wrote:
Yes? But in the SM universe, magic is unquestionably real.
And merely saying that this isn´t magic, i just don´t understand it enough, that´s just as bad as the other side of the coin, your "just being lazy" solution.
There is nothing in the SM universe that prevents Clarke' Law from operating.
As for the claim "saying that this isn´t magic, i just don´t understand it enough" is garbage to anyone who has watched Star Trek.
"Catspaw" with Sylvia and Korob case in point:
KOROB: Captain, you've seen something of our science. Now tell us about yours.
KIRK: You seem to be singing a different tune. I'd rather know more about yours. You call it magic, you call it science. It seems unrelated to both of them.
KOROB: What would you name it, Captain?
KIRK: I wouldn't attempt to name it, but you seem to do with your mind what we do with tools. You alter matter, move it about by telekinesis.
Kirk would meet others who were able to do the same: Trelane and the Organians. The main difference is that Sylvia and Korob were using a technological dod dad called a Transmuter.
Using Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland as his foundation, Carl Sagan in the print version of Cosmos stated: "If a fourth-dimension creature existed it could, in our three-dimensional universe, appear and dematerialize at will, change shape remarkably, pluck us out of locked rooms, and make us appear from nowhere." —Carl Sagan. Cosmos pg 219 All things called "magic".
In fact, this use of higher dimensional shadows was first suggested Cambridge Platonist Henry Moore in the 17th century! Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner took the idea and built on it.
Take the Tenchi multiverse--everything even the Magical Girl Pretty Sammy spin off is the product of either super science or multidimensionality ie NO magic.