Re: How to define "magic" (was Re: Fantasy relativity)

Silmacar Halfelven
Captain of the Guards of Cardolan

>From: Andrew 'NightBeing' Alchemist <xboct@??????.??????.kz>
>
>As  far  as I understand it, the tunnel effect IS magic ;)

No it is not.

>That is, it is  single most insane and unreliable process I could recall.

Yes it is.

>IIRC, it is "Whenever there is a potential barrier of some strength, >there
>will
>be  some  (electrons) that will pass it despite they don't have enough
>energy  to do it, and some that will bounced while they have more than
>enough  to  pass  it"?  In  other words, some of them just "cheat" and
>teleport thru it, while some others are too lazy to climb ;)
>

Hmm no. In a beam of electrons travelling at average speed v, you'll have
some electrons going faster and some slower, so some of them have a greater
kynetic energy. The problem is, the distribution of speed is extremely
random.


>
>No,  mostly,  I had in mind DarkSun defilers/preservers who have their
>energy  source  clearly defined, and it belongs to the same plane they
>are  on.  Anyway,  energy  source  could  be  whatever lies within the
>casualty

i think you mean causalty

>[MAN, WHAT A WORD <G>] tetra-cone. I don't account for other
>planes,  for  I  mean  more  of  universal  picture  than  (A)D&D, and
>multiverse  could  be built without other planes or whatever they are.

>
>Could  you  post  it (maybe just send it offlist to me if it is not SJ
>related)?
>

Yep as soon as I've worked it a bit more and put it in decent english -
unless you know italian.

>
>... Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
>
Got a theory about why bombers strike hospitals in Afghanistan: it is not an
error, they see a big red cross on a white field and think, "X marks the
spot!".

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