The universe didn’t force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct.

But you chose to believe that magic is by definition not real, because you didn’t want to live in a world of whimsy and wonder. You defined magic as supernatural, in opposition to the natural world. While every scientist knows that nature is just a word for everything that exists. You chose to define magic in a way that it wouldn’t exist, denying it through tautology and not through science.

Why did you choose that?

  • ekZepp
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    Because reality is way too complex and we need to have clear, well documented, error-proof ways to understand it. Wonder and amazement can follow after the understanding of what is true. Is alway better to have “boring” but clear terminologies and a well documented way to expain phenomenon, instead of mixing “Facts” with “Romance” just because we like the sound of certain words. Also, the term “magic” is just a filler, a " deux ex machina", it didn’t explain nothing.