This gets me thinking so much that it might be worth making a top level post.
In fact, there are a lot of reasons why such people want to enter the world of magic:
Often magical worlds need to be born with talent, and naturally they see themselves as such, in other words, this group also dreams of being born Einstein or someone else special. Or, yes, win the lottery.
Even if magic is available to everyone, unlike science, it gives personal strength through hard work. There is no Bayesian conspiracy in our world, and therefore scientists are in no way cooler than others.
It can also be a dream of regenerating strength, such people would dream not only of mana regen, but also of a cold fusion blaster.
It may be a desire to get your power without cooperation with other people, alone, which is also not particularly feasible now in our world.
In the world of magic, you can learn/invent a spell for a specific need, but in the world of science, you cannot. Although it is worth noting here that in the world of science, you should find the most promising direction of development, which will allow you to solve a bunch of problems at once, for example, nanotechnology or even AI.
A person may want honesty, in the world of magic all spells of one circle are equal and you choose according to your taste or a specific situation, in the world of science there is most likely some kind of spell that is clearly better than all the others, so it usually makes no sense to use the rest .
It may be a dream of fast reinforcement, in science you may have to work 30 years before the first result, even learning a language requires a year of work, but in many worlds a new spell can be learned in a week or even an hour.
But the general idea of the post is very correct. I was only fascinated by the beauty of quantum mechanics after reading the related thread, although it’s worth noting that even without that, I was fascinated by the principle of limiting the speed of light when I simply tried to program inertia into the game myself, so perhaps a significant part of the problem is that in school you make you guess the word the teacher has in mind rather than showing the beauty of physics, I think schooling is one of the reasons people remember that learning something real is boring.
I have to admit that even I myself once regretted that our world is not a world of magic, and nothing like this will ever happen. Although I should have thought at least about the resettlement of humanity in virtual reality, since I did not read at the age of 11 about the possibilities of nanotechnology. After all, at that point, I already liked to think about the possibilities of fantasy spells, and find uses for them that gave special abilities. But I didn’t even think about applying it to reality. It didn’t occur to me while reading the GPMR that it wasn’t just magic that could be dangerous when used creatively. And only after reading “Friendship is the optimum” I realized that Harry’s desire to rewrite reality so that there was no death in it is feasible even in our physical world.
However, I never believed that I could become a good scientist, or just at least someone significant, not like changing the world alone. In general, I still have not heard of someone who purposefully created technology that changed the world during his lifetime. (Or just didn’t pay attention because I didn’t think it was important? I don’t remember if cars qualify anymore.) But then again, I didn’t consider myself born under a lucky star and didn’t expect to win the lottery.
I still haven’t become a scientist, and I haven’t done anything significant. However, as I point out in one of my brief forms, people don’t do less grandiose things, they don’t do what everyone can do, which requires just 15 minutes of daily training. People don’t go in for sports, don’t learn languages. But I do it. And if I were in the world of magic, I would study the spell every day. While Potter wizards don’t do this because they don’t appreciate magic, because they don’t see it as something special, it’s not that cool, not cooler than knowing a second language. Although each of them could have reached the level of Professor Quirrell in old age. How does every person in our world know 12 languages (or even 57, although they are not “super smart” if they practice 60 minutes a day and live to 87, not 65).
P.S. Obviously, I should have read at least one comment before writing my own. It is also obvious that this is such a topic that everyone has something to say, and with my experience here I am not any special.
This gets me thinking so much that it might be worth making a top level post. In fact, there are a lot of reasons why such people want to enter the world of magic:
Often magical worlds need to be born with talent, and naturally they see themselves as such, in other words, this group also dreams of being born Einstein or someone else special. Or, yes, win the lottery.
Even if magic is available to everyone, unlike science, it gives personal strength through hard work. There is no Bayesian conspiracy in our world, and therefore scientists are in no way cooler than others.
It can also be a dream of regenerating strength, such people would dream not only of mana regen, but also of a cold fusion blaster.
It may be a desire to get your power without cooperation with other people, alone, which is also not particularly feasible now in our world.
In the world of magic, you can learn/invent a spell for a specific need, but in the world of science, you cannot. Although it is worth noting here that in the world of science, you should find the most promising direction of development, which will allow you to solve a bunch of problems at once, for example, nanotechnology or even AI.
A person may want honesty, in the world of magic all spells of one circle are equal and you choose according to your taste or a specific situation, in the world of science there is most likely some kind of spell that is clearly better than all the others, so it usually makes no sense to use the rest .
It may be a dream of fast reinforcement, in science you may have to work 30 years before the first result, even learning a language requires a year of work, but in many worlds a new spell can be learned in a week or even an hour. But the general idea of the post is very correct. I was only fascinated by the beauty of quantum mechanics after reading the related thread, although it’s worth noting that even without that, I was fascinated by the principle of limiting the speed of light when I simply tried to program inertia into the game myself, so perhaps a significant part of the problem is that in school you make you guess the word the teacher has in mind rather than showing the beauty of physics, I think schooling is one of the reasons people remember that learning something real is boring. I have to admit that even I myself once regretted that our world is not a world of magic, and nothing like this will ever happen. Although I should have thought at least about the resettlement of humanity in virtual reality, since I did not read at the age of 11 about the possibilities of nanotechnology. After all, at that point, I already liked to think about the possibilities of fantasy spells, and find uses for them that gave special abilities. But I didn’t even think about applying it to reality. It didn’t occur to me while reading the GPMR that it wasn’t just magic that could be dangerous when used creatively. And only after reading “Friendship is the optimum” I realized that Harry’s desire to rewrite reality so that there was no death in it is feasible even in our physical world. However, I never believed that I could become a good scientist, or just at least someone significant, not like changing the world alone. In general, I still have not heard of someone who purposefully created technology that changed the world during his lifetime. (Or just didn’t pay attention because I didn’t think it was important? I don’t remember if cars qualify anymore.) But then again, I didn’t consider myself born under a lucky star and didn’t expect to win the lottery. I still haven’t become a scientist, and I haven’t done anything significant. However, as I point out in one of my brief forms, people don’t do less grandiose things, they don’t do what everyone can do, which requires just 15 minutes of daily training. People don’t go in for sports, don’t learn languages. But I do it. And if I were in the world of magic, I would study the spell every day. While Potter wizards don’t do this because they don’t appreciate magic, because they don’t see it as something special, it’s not that cool, not cooler than knowing a second language. Although each of them could have reached the level of Professor Quirrell in old age. How does every person in our world know 12 languages (or even 57, although they are not “super smart” if they practice 60 minutes a day and live to 87, not 65). P.S. Obviously, I should have read at least one comment before writing my own. It is also obvious that this is such a topic that everyone has something to say, and with my experience here I am not any special.