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[10billionpercent]

[Visible now is Senku, and a smashed piece of glass. This is his new mirror already, but it was no accident. He holds up a shard.]

Well, I can report that this appears to be just ordinary mirror glass, I'm no closer to understanding how it works yet.

[It's quite possible that people haven't met him yet, but he doesn't consider that.]

Intersting. I was expecting some kind of technology to explain the so called magic effect.

Any thoughts?

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[dr_riley]

Could be crystal technology. Easy to miss to an untrained eye, but haven't gone and smashed mine. Think teleportation mirror is white hole generating/stabilising device.

[10billionpercent]

You're welcome to take a look at mine if you want, since I went to the trouble of breaking it open. It looks like an ordinary mirror to me, but we all know it doesn't work that way.

A white hole stabilizing device? Now that is fascinating.

[dr_riley]

Might take you up on it, though the really advanced stuff requires a lab for precise diagnostics.

I think. No other theories yet seem as plausible.

[10billionpercent]

What kind of analysis are you looking for? If a lab doesn't exist, I can certainly create one. You'd be surprised how far you can get with every little.

Very interesting. Have you studied much quantum theory?

[dr_riley]

Chemical analysis, energy emission, presence of any conductive or semi-conductive materials or structural patterns, that sort of thing.

Yes. Astrophysics, mechanical engineering, quantum mechanics. Yourself?

[10billionpercent]

Nothing I noticed on first glance, but you're right I don't have the kind of lab set up to deal with that at the moment. Granted, that's only a matter of time, I'm not going to abandon my scientific pursuits.

I've studied chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, geology and mathematics. Especially astrophysics. If it was related to science, and I could get my hands on it, I probably read it.

I was trying to get into space. JAXA was my fallback, but I was trying to go on my own. I have successfully shot one rocket into orbit.

[dr_riley]

Very ambitious. What were you trying to do in space?

[originaldragoon]

Magic power is magic power. There are just some phenomena that cannot be explained logically.

[10billionpercent]

Why can't it be explained logically? Doesn't magic have rules?

[originaldragoon]

It depends on the kind of magic. Some magic can just be plan chaotic.

[10billionpercent]

But magic has rules doesn't it? Limitations? Even chaos theory has limitations.

[originaldragoon]

I do not know what you mean by "chaos theory," but if it has limitations than it is not true chaos.

[10billionpercent]

Humans have studied chaos for a long time. Unfortunately it's not as random as believed.

I can show you the math, if you want.

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[creepyoldguy]

Okay, Breather.

It’s not too complicated. It’s just magic, that breaks all science and logic.

[10billionpercent]

Even if it is magic, as you say, magic must have rules? Logic to it? You can't just do whatever you want.

So there must be a method to how this works.

[creepyoldguy]

It’s chaos.

[Back home it was, at least. Certainly his own powers were.]

[10billionpercent]

Chaos has rules. Randomness is never truly random. Magic must work the same way, there must be limitations and rules.

[creepyoldguy]

Seventeen, kumquat, evacuate.

[The demon grinned.]


Chaos is a beautiful, beautiful, thing, fella.

[10billionpercent]

No matter how random that seems to you, there will always be patterns. And you're limited by the sounds of the language that you can make. And the words that you know.

Humdudgeon, sesquipedalian, disembogue. Words you may not know, but could be part of my chaotic thought. Our limitations are different.

Chaos happens everywhere, but it's not actually as random or chaotic as once thought.

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[spectacularlyhighking]

Well I could have told you that. The question now is - do you have any idea how you intend to replace your now broken mirror?

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[10billionpercent]

[ He's just in their room sitting on the floor and he has a new mirror. ]

It was expensive.

[ He's still fiddling with the glass shards, even though he's finished with them, looking at them, turning them in his hand. He'll probably cut himself if he's not that careful.]

But I'm not exactly buying much anyway.

[ He's too used to his clothes to change them, even if it makes him stand out. That's never bothered him. ]

[spectacularlyhighking]

Fair enough.

[Eliot had been lounging in the living room reading a book when he heard him talking and came to investigate. He leaned in the doorway, his arms crossed as he watched the fiddling.]

If you slice open your hand I'm not cleaning up the blood.

[10billionpercent]

Too bad I don't have a near limitless credit card here, I could set up a proper lab.

[ He'll have to find some way to do it on the cheap. He's done it before. ]

Fortunately.. [ He trails off and sets the shard down to send it to the other scientist who answered him. ] I'm fairly well versed in first aid. [ He leans backwards, looking at his roommate now. ]

[spectacularlyhighking]

A limitless credit card? Be still my beating heart.

[He chuckles, mostly teasing. As a magician it's easy enough to create what you need. Or get the money if you can't create it by magic.]

That's a relief, but I was more referring to you getting blood all over the carpet. Given what you've told me about your history I had no doubt you could administer first aid. In any case, have you discovered anything interesting?

[10billionpercent]

I did say near limitless. Let's just say, if I believed in things like a moral debt, I would owe one to NASA.

[He's amused by that, at least, but it's tempered pretty easily by the memories associated with it.]

Nothing at all. [ He hadn't given much consideration to the carpet. Should he be concerned about that? Nah. Probably not. ]

Which is just as exhilarating. It appears like an ordinary mirror.