Scientific thoughts on Handwavium--what is established?

[Proginoskes]

The Slapstick Effect is a side-effect of the Genre Directive (though I don't know that anyone actually inside Fenspace has put together the Genre Directive, or called it that if they have). It similarly resists efforts to use it in the development of chemical and biological weapons, and will never create a Grey Goo-capable nanoassebler (though it might increase the virulence of an extant one, if some omnicidal maniac wanted it badly enough).