Is Magic And Science The Same Thing? (quote, miracles, created)
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So, Hubby & I have been watching Once Upon A Time on Netflix. Last night's ep involved Dr. Frankenstein. Egor said to him, "It's magic." The Doc said, "It's more powerful than magic. It's science."
That got me to think that maybe they are the same thing. As Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." One scenario: when you preform magic, you use a caldron-fill it with ingredients ("Eye of newt and toe of frog."), and then whatever you created is supposed to change whatever.
So, in a lab (as opposed to a caldron), these items are combined:
3.0 g salicylic acid
6 mL acetic anhydride
5-8 drops of 85% phosphoric acid or concentrated sulfuric acid
Distilled water (about 50 mL)
10 mL ethanol
1% iron III chloride
If you take that combination, it will relieve your headache. (Yes, that is what goes into aspirin these days.) Is that any different?
What do you think? Is magic & science interchangeable or is the a difference?
Very good explanation! But if I may ramp things up a bit... I am going to create an acronym and fill in the words the letters of the word MAGIC might stand for temporarily posing as a Fundamentalist Apologist...
My husband works in pharmaceutical research. To this day nobody really knows why paracetamol (otherwise known as acetaminophen) works, they just know it does. But it's not magic. They just know that it does work and since it does, there's not much incentive to spend money on finding out why.
They do understand in minute detail why lots of other drugs work though.
They just know that it does work and since it does, there's not much incentive to spend money on finding out why.
That's because pharamaceutical companies stockpile that money to help out later if any unknown long term side effects start affecting users in the future....
That's because pharamaceutical companies stockpile that money to help out later if any unknown long term side effects start affecting users in the future....
Paracetamol has been in use for well over a hundred years.
It's effectiveness, efficiacy, potency and side effects are already well documented.
The only example I can think of is alchemy was considered a type of magic, it's chemistry now.
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