Talk:Virtual Warping/@comment-4632123-20130701183811/@comment-5265497-20130820173647

When I say perceptive, anybody perceives magic as something that flouts the laws of physics as that contemporary era knows it. The witch trials and part of the inquisition was brought forth by fear of the unknown and alleged malignant abuse of it or the transformation of alchemy to chemistry for example. As society progresses and our understanding of science improves, we become more accepting of new ideas. You could say we reached a technological singularity.

In various fictional media, magic has become more defined with our own inexplicable representation of it. Reed Richards, who illustrates the distinction quite nicely, asserts that  he considers magic a science that simply works with a different set of rules (albeit rules he can't quite comprehend, so he might be totally wrong.) No matter how advanced we become or how much information we acquire, there will always be an incomprehensible level that we consider magic (in the media at least). The only thing that will change is our own perception of it. It's like the difference between Galactus (strictly advanced technology and cosmic energy) and Agamotto (sorcerer supreme and magical being).

Magic just seems to essentially be have unfathomable function beyond purely scientific scrutiny. Even magitek clearly distinguishes magic from technology with the only element of fusion being that magic reinforces and facillitates the operations of the technology's craft (traditional heat engine or an electrical generator powered by or powering a magic spell, or a giant mecha that can inexplicably shoot ice from an empty hand.)