I'm looking forward to hearing your views, because as said, my knowledge on quantum mechanics is somewhat spotty
You know, while QM is one of my passions, I am by no means an expert and although I am a number cruncher (finance), I am no mathematician either. I understand the theory, but am not particularly adept at doing the higher calculations.
I have A Brief History and Black Holes and baby Universes and other Essays. I have promised myself to try and read at least one during the Easter holiday. Everyone raves about Hawking, I don't know why it is I have trouble reading his work.
In my head I seem to have the need to justify the magical world in terms of what I consider to be realistic. That sounds crazy, I guess, but I don't think it's much different than my need for fanfiction to be realistic as far as the characters are concerned. For example, If Severus starts calling Harry luv and Harry calls Severus Sev I'm outta there. So when people write fanfic where a time turner is used in a way that is completely inconsistant with the principles of QM -- someone goes into the past and kills Voldemort, or worse yet becomes Voldemort, in order to change the future, I roll my eyes and move on to the next fic.
Actually, I really think use of a time turner should be part of the warnings right up there with BDSM, Chan and non-con. Then I could decide right away if I wanted to take the chance of reading a good story, only to have it ruined two thirds of the way in when the author introduces a time turner. There are some writers out there that could do a really great job with this topic, but I'd rather not be surprised. Yes, I'm kind of kidding here, but...well, one can dream ;-)
maybe magic works in Goedelian ways. It seems to be fine disregarding the First Law of Thermodynamics, too
Gödel's IT is applicable to almost everything...though I think I draw the line at the implication that his theory shows that you will never entirely understand yourself, since the mind, as a closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself. I am curious, though, why you think that Magic disregards the First Law of Thermodynamics. I see no reason why a magical world would violate that law.
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Date: 2005-03-23 01:09 pm (UTC)You know, while QM is one of my passions, I am by no means an expert and although I am a number cruncher (finance), I am no mathematician either. I understand the theory, but am not particularly adept at doing the higher calculations.
I have A Brief History and Black Holes and baby Universes and other Essays. I have promised myself to try and read at least one during the Easter holiday. Everyone raves about Hawking, I don't know why it is I have trouble reading his work.
In my head I seem to have the need to justify the magical world in terms of what I consider to be realistic. That sounds crazy, I guess, but I don't think it's much different than my need for fanfiction to be realistic as far as the characters are concerned. For example, If Severus starts calling Harry luv and Harry calls Severus Sev I'm outta there. So when people write fanfic where a time turner is used in a way that is completely inconsistant with the principles of QM -- someone goes into the past and kills Voldemort, or worse yet becomes Voldemort, in order to change the future, I roll my eyes and move on to the next fic.
Actually, I really think use of a time turner should be part of the warnings right up there with BDSM, Chan and non-con. Then I could decide right away if I wanted to take the chance of reading a good story, only to have it ruined two thirds of the way in when the author introduces a time turner. There are some writers out there that could do a really great job with this topic, but I'd rather not be surprised. Yes, I'm kind of kidding here, but...well, one can dream ;-)
maybe magic works in Goedelian ways. It seems to be fine disregarding the First Law of Thermodynamics, too
Gödel's IT is applicable to almost everything...though I think I draw the line at the implication that his theory shows that you will never entirely understand yourself, since the mind, as a closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself. I am curious, though, why you think that Magic disregards the First Law of Thermodynamics. I see no reason why a magical world would violate that law.