New Hampshire Battleship Lover Wrote:HRogge Wrote:One of the mayor problems of a scientific study of Handwavium is that Handwavium reacts to the wishes and thoughts of the person using it.Handwavium's reactions to people's thoughts, and to such material as magazines and movies, is part of its observed properties, and thus, an integral part of any analysis. The important questiion, for now, IMVHO, is this: Has any scientific study of Handwavium been done? If so, what has been said in cannon about this?
A trekkie who really wants his warp capable shuttle can easily wave his car. A scientists interested in not influencing his probe of Handwavium might just have an unreactive blob in front of him which doesn't do anything.
Most likely there have been hundreds of analysis... most of them inconclusive, because noone is able to measure what external influences are being received by a batch of Handwavium.