Nanotech is also arguable a game changer, as in "Hello Singularity!", but I guess we're talking about Magic here.
Magic may well be the screwdriver to hard tech's hammer - two different tools, don't try using one as the other. Handwavium may allow you to mix the two effectively. As Rob Kelk says, looking at how ritual makes handwavium more effective could be very instructive.
One approach might be to research parapsychology, but, if that is the route to psionics rather than magic you could really mess yourself about.
Doing some serious analysis of what goes on when something is waved-up, with or without ritual, both of the process and the person doing the waving, might help. This assumes that handwavium instruments don't conspire to hide how the process works, but you could use your best hard tech instruments too. We've talking brain scans, multi-spectal imaging, checks for gravitic, magnetic or temporal anomalies, the lot. While you're at it, probing for changes in radioactive decay rates, quantum anomalies, interesting 'ghost' particle emmisions...
And, doing some thorough analysis of the Professor's "Meson Burst Detector" is definitely worth it.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Magic may well be the screwdriver to hard tech's hammer - two different tools, don't try using one as the other. Handwavium may allow you to mix the two effectively. As Rob Kelk says, looking at how ritual makes handwavium more effective could be very instructive.
One approach might be to research parapsychology, but, if that is the route to psionics rather than magic you could really mess yourself about.
Doing some serious analysis of what goes on when something is waved-up, with or without ritual, both of the process and the person doing the waving, might help. This assumes that handwavium instruments don't conspire to hide how the process works, but you could use your best hard tech instruments too. We've talking brain scans, multi-spectal imaging, checks for gravitic, magnetic or temporal anomalies, the lot. While you're at it, probing for changes in radioactive decay rates, quantum anomalies, interesting 'ghost' particle emmisions...
And, doing some thorough analysis of the Professor's "Meson Burst Detector" is definitely worth it.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind