Thoughts on a Couple of Magic Book Series
Dec. 15th, 2011 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Clarke's third law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," is often misquoted with the word science substituted for technology. I can picture a slightly older Hermione, deep into magical research, offering the inverse: that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science. With Ron looking blank and not getting what she means, because Hogwarts' education system is... well, biased is putting it kindly. There's no indication that anyone gets out of that school with higher than an eleven-year-old Muggle's mathematics education, for example.
Though science and magic aren't mutually exclusive; Diane Duane's Young Wizards universe, for instance, has the two married and melded as one, where spells are akin to long physics problems. Of course, I suspect Kit and Nita would look heavily askance at Hogwarts. Their magic is actually serious business, and they, and all their fellow wizards, are actively involved in slowing the death of the universe from day one.
I think I must poke about and see if anyone's written a crossover, and, if so, how they approached it. The basic underlying assumptions about magic and the universe are, to put it mildly, extremely contradictory....
Though science and magic aren't mutually exclusive; Diane Duane's Young Wizards universe, for instance, has the two married and melded as one, where spells are akin to long physics problems. Of course, I suspect Kit and Nita would look heavily askance at Hogwarts. Their magic is actually serious business, and they, and all their fellow wizards, are actively involved in slowing the death of the universe from day one.
I think I must poke about and see if anyone's written a crossover, and, if so, how they approached it. The basic underlying assumptions about magic and the universe are, to put it mildly, extremely contradictory....
