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From: "Wendy Wanders, Subject 117" <KGGEWEHR@******.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SR3] Area Spells -Reply
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 11:37:45 -0500
You wrote:
> Fade wrote:
> >I seem to remember reading that since the
> >basic nature of glass is transparency (it's its
> >intention, mood, whatever) it is transparent in
> >astral space too.

> Yes, that's the rules. However, ordinary glass is
> opaque to infrared, but quartz glass is
> transparent. To X-Rays, wood is transparent.
> To Neutrinos, the earth is transparent (Ok, that
> last one is unfair, neutrinos aren't photons).
> IMHO, machine produced glass doesn't have any
> intentions at all.

By this argument, why isn't air opaque, then? It's there, why shouldn't it
intervene, if glass does? It's so much simpler for things to work as they do
on the physical, rather than ruling case-by-case whether they are transparent
or not. Would a pool of water be transparent or opaque, for instance?

losthalo

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