(TFT) How does magic work?

["Jay Carlisle" <Maou_Tsaou@charter.net>]

Worthless?




Report from : Jay Mnoren and research staff; Jen Mnoren University of 
Science and Technology, Jackson School of Meta-Theory - 1310 T-yr A.J. / 
A.E. 1m1 / May 4, 2010


Common Material Components In General Magical Theory

As is now commonly known it has been a generation since Dr. J. B. Mnoren 
developed the basis of Alternate Earth Theory allowing us to describe the 
371 Alternate Earths Universes in relation to each other; among other 
implications vastly improving our abilities to locate and maintain Gates 
between A.E.'s.
Of course, it was the Doctors accidental discovery of another order of 
magnitude of separation between the A.E's that has spurred the recent 
renaissance of Mnoren social culture.
Owing to this realization we have documented over four thousand Alternate 
Earth's in the last 20 years, over ten times the number of A.E.'s discovered 
in a fifteenth of the time from Jen till the cessation of A.E. exploration 
during the time of Cidri.
No longer need we cast ourselves upon the fickle tides of time to ride the 
current where it will, we can now pick our point, choose our moment; our new 
limit has become our knowledge.
It has been the happy confluence of our explorations of these vast numbers 
of newly discovered A.E.'s with the fact that all A.E.'s are part of a 
related system with basic commonalities shared among all worlds of the 
system that has allowed research to progress into the basic traits of magic 
that are now known to be shared among the one-hundred and fourteen 
recognized A.E.'s with magical properties.

Of note here; Dr. Burrows' Theory seems to follow a kind of inverse square 
law in relation of the number of our 'family' participating in the system 
itself.
It now seems likely that there is a limit to the A.E. system beyond which 
other, different natural laws and rules could likely occur.
This paper cannot and will not attempt to address the current rumors and 
speculation concerning the possibilities beyond the Alternate Earth system 
but instead will focus on those aspects of magic that are shared among the 
various worlds, and particularly on component materials for spells that 
actually act as magical reagents and catalysis'.

In the twelve years since the founding of J.M.U.S.T. our research has 
managed to reveal several key insights into the general nature of magic that 
seem to be shared among the known members of the A.E. multiverse system.
The foremost of these discoveries has unquestionably been an understanding 
of the source of magical energies. (See "An Extra-dimensional Aetherial 
Matrix Structure to the Multiverse?" 1300 T-yr A.J. / A.E. 1m1 / June 21, 
2000)
It now seems clear to us that the force being shaped in magic is involved 
with vacuum energy available to the particular A.E. being considered.
On about 1% of the known A.E.'s the resonances in the vacuum energy are very 
small, resulting in a very minor Casimir effect.
On these worlds the magical force operates on small enough scales to allow 
for the logical function of mechanical and even electrical components 
reliably.
Of the 23 worlds known with space travel, every one possesses a magical 
resonance at the atomic level or below, and all nineteen worlds known to 
have a MR at or below the atomic level that do not possess space travel at 
this time show clear signs of progress toward high technology.
Every one of the 74 "dead worlds" proven to have been destroyed via 
catastrophic use of technology also have these same quantum resonances.
(of note here, the ratio of magical worlds to dead worlds proven to have 
been destroyed by the catastrophic use of magic is about 1 in 4, with 91 
magical worlds known and 23 worlds destroyed by catastrophic magic. No 
symmetry relation has been shown to the date of this writing.)

On most A.E.s' the magical resonance operates over much larger scales than 
those of high-tec worlds, but much smaller scales than that of magical 
worlds.
Very energetic virtual particles frequently exist over large fractions of a 
second on these worlds causing noticeable and unpredictable fluxuations in 
systems depending on regular oscillations, predictable energy flow, constant 
coefficients and etc.
This effect is sufficient to retard the development of complex machines 
while at the same time being to weakly manifested in these worlds to be 
effectively channeled into "magical" effects.

On those A.E.'s designated magical the potential virtual energies resonate 
over vast scales, allowing for predictable smaller scale effects based of 
its self-similar stochastical relationship to our physical scale.
In other words, on magical worlds such as Cidri, the vacuum energy potential 
is so great that a Wizard can effectively channel it into the useful forms 
known as spells.

A particular concern of spell-forms are the material components necessary to 
generate the effect.
Unlike the verbal and gestural aspects of physical spell casting that have 
their roots in Mnoren Psychology, material components seem to be describing 
a direct physical link to the A.E. universe in which they reside.
In the same fashion that the periodic chart remains constant across the 
known A.E.'s (discounting isotope differences) several magical elements 
remain constant across the known magical worlds as material components of 
spell casting and magical item creation.

Principal among these is the "perfect" electrode Mythril or 'true silver'.
Sitting in the eleventh column of the periodic table with an atomic weight 
of 127, Mythril exhibits charistics of stability sufficient to retain 
half-lifes comparable to several human generations.
The extreme density of true silver also allows for veins of relatively pure 
Mythril to be found albeit deep within a planetary bodies crustal 
formations, often laceing the bottoms of veins of silver and/or gold with 
thread like filaments descending ever deeper beyond the levels of profitable 
mining.
As an electrode, the element My is actually sensitive to vacuum flux of 
magical scale due to its density.
This allows a reduction or oxidation of the magical flux depending on the 
waveform of the flux being transformed.
The other "true" metals in this column can be used successfully but in 
impractical mass volumes.
The high-tec production of this element does little to focus the small scale 
flux on such a world.
Working as an anode/cathode, My in a magical environment where the very air 
is a electrochemical cell sufficient to produce spell effects possesses high 
potentality.

The opposite potential seems to be related to crystal structure...
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