From: | "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM> |
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Subject: | New Clear Fishin' - (Hang on this is a long wild one!) |
Date: | Sat, 10 May 1997 11:16:23 -0400 |
have formulated a hypothesis of sorts.
Nuclear Energy is one of the following, if not more ...
1 - Related to magic.
2 - The origin of magic
3 - Extremely, coincidentally similar to magic
Here's where I get this notion.
PoaD: Dunkelzhan's Secrets, Page 27, Column 3, Paragraph 3.
" To Gaeatronics' Seattle labratories, I leave 250 million nuyen for the
purpose of research into Dr. Dawn Crowfeather's treatise, "On the
Relationship between Mana and Nuclear Energy.""
In the interest of claiming this 250 million nuyen, I offer the following
...
A - Both Nuclear Energy and Magical Energy can alter genetic material.
Nuclear mutations are well known ... cancers, etc. Magical "mutations"
include UGE/Goblinization, Magism, etc.
B - Both can create new matter/forms of matter.
Nuclear Fission can seperate atoms into components, and reform molecules.
Magical energy can form acids, flame, etc.
C - Both can create areas of pollution.
Nuclear waste is a well known problem. Areas of CFS have been so magically
polluted as to make them dangerous for humans. Also the entire notion of
"Background Count" is common between the two forces.
D - Both Forces have a "half-life."
Nuclear forces slowly degrade in time. Magicla spells leave a detectable
"mark" in astral space that slowlu degrades after the fact.
E - Both forces can create extreme levels of power, bordering on the
dangerous.
These similarities lead me to believe that there IS a strong corrolary
between the two forces. IMO they may well be aspects of the same force!
Other SR specific nuclear/magic ties.
A - Nuclear weapons became unreliable after the return of magic.
B - The Cermak explosion was contained by a magical barrier.
The above facts/theories lead me to this conclusion.
Magic and Nuclear reaction are two sides of the same coin.
Let's postulate that there is a "ultimate force" in the SR universe.
Let's call it ... Primal.
The world flows from cycles of high-low mana.
The world has also flowed from levels of low radiation to high radiation.
This flow has also been reflected in technology, in levels of low magic,
technology has advanced more, including the development of nuclear
energies.
Nuclear energies and Magical energies seem to be somewhat
incompatible/opposed.
Suppose that NE, and ME are both aspects of Primal.
Primal flows with the cycles of the world.
This flow is reflected in the flow of Primal's two fundamental forces,
Magic and Nuclear.
As one becomes dominant the other seems to ebb.
Perhaps both are simply different ends of the same wave?
How is it that both forces seem to still exist in the Sixth World?
As has been noted before, the Sixth World is quite different from the
others recorded before.
Things like Horrors are cropping up where they should not, or earlier than
they should.
Magic and technology (the product of the Nuclear aspect of Primal) are
becoming closer entwined.
Humanity is learning to unite these two aspects of Primal.
What happens when the two are completely united?
Universal Harmony?
Universal Destruction?
I'll leave that discussion to you gentle readers.
So ... whaddya think? ;-)
Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com/users/bluewizard
"Heads I tell the truth and Tails I lie ..."