May 20, 2025
Applying renormalization to bullies successfully transformed Pete & Pete's Endless Mike into Finite Mike.
Renormalization [Explained]
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Applying renormalization to bullies successfully transformed Pete & Pete's Endless Mike into Finite Mike.
Renormalization [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
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"Arcane" often means magical, but it originally meant secret, the idea being that magic requires secret knowledge or something. In some fiction though, information about magic is not something the world is hiding from you but just the opposite, something it goes out of its way to tell you about. Perhaps you get an odd sensation there's magic in the air, an intuition from out of nowhere guides you towards your latent magical talent, or a magical item makes it apparent what its purpose is and how to use it, with no extra effort required. A properly arcane magic system in this sense, where the world is really trying to hide it, would likely look a lot more like science and engineering, the rules slowly teased out by rigorous experimentation.
I'm sure there are lots of examples of these two things, the word "arcane" for magic and magic inherently revealing itself, being combined in one work of fiction, but the only example I can think of now is some versions of D&D, where a sorcerer (who uses magic intuitively) counts as a kind of arcane caster.
I like the idea of a setting classifying magic into two branches, the arcane arts (which take a lot of effort to gain knowledge of unless you have someone to teach you), and the overt arts (which actively reveal themselves, even if they only do so to certain people or under certain circumstances). I'm probably not actually going to do much with this idea, since it doesn't really fit into any of my current settings. Maybe some day when I'm working on a new one.
There are some aspects of real-life physics that I know of where it really does feel like the world is hiding itself from us. Renormalization is one. The true physics that take place at the smallest scales and highest energies is approximated by other theories with an energy limit, which are in turn approximated by theories with a slightly lower energy limit, and so on over many orders of magnitude down to the low-energy physics we observe making up our everyday reality. In the process of all this, most details of the true high-energy laws are all but erased. They don't seem to affect the low-energy physics in any way we can actually see with current technology (with the possible exception of a few things like gravity, which is its own can of worms), but we know they must be there because the low-energy theories we have are not mathematically consistent on their own. Another is inflation. Right before the relatively ordinary part of the big bang ("relatively" being a crucial word here), the universe seems to have expanded for a while at an incredibly high rate. We don't know how long this went on for (if that question even has a meaningful answer), nor what existed before inflation, and it's quite possible we just can't know, because all the evidence has been so thoroughly erased. The universe expanded so much that the entire volume of the observable universe may not contain a single particle that pre-dates inflation. It has been hypothesised that inflation might even still be going on somewhere, very very far away. Again, it could be impossible to tell.
Recursion, Renormalization, Representation, and Reality
Recursion, Renormalization, Representation, and Reality
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