A tidbit from a scientist's rant I've had running through my head and may post all of soon if I can work it out:
"Handwavium does not break the laws of physics. It can't. That's why they're the laws of physics. What it does is show us that we don't know what all the laws of physics are. Newton did that. Einstein did that. Anyone here with half a brain can add more names to that list.
"What sticks in the craw of some of my colleagues is that the behavior of handwavium is eccentric in ways that, so far as our current understanding of nature goes, is impossible without the intervention of a conscious mind. For them that comes far too close to proof of existence of Deity for them to accept, and that's why they lobbied so hard for the TSAB project. It's why I supported it, for that matter.
"Because sooner or later, you have to ask yourself: If there is a conscious mind directing the goo in how and where it will help us, whose mind is it?
"And what will happen if they change their mind about us? Or, gods help us, get bored?"
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
"Handwavium does not break the laws of physics. It can't. That's why they're the laws of physics. What it does is show us that we don't know what all the laws of physics are. Newton did that. Einstein did that. Anyone here with half a brain can add more names to that list.
"What sticks in the craw of some of my colleagues is that the behavior of handwavium is eccentric in ways that, so far as our current understanding of nature goes, is impossible without the intervention of a conscious mind. For them that comes far too close to proof of existence of Deity for them to accept, and that's why they lobbied so hard for the TSAB project. It's why I supported it, for that matter.
"Because sooner or later, you have to ask yourself: If there is a conscious mind directing the goo in how and where it will help us, whose mind is it?
"And what will happen if they change their mind about us? Or, gods help us, get bored?"
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.