[ WP ] `` Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic . '' What happens when magic becomes too advanced ?

`` What if magic was as advanced as technology?'' 
 
 My coworker asked that this morning. My name is Rob, and I work with a team that recently discovered Magic is real. Many people have said its a pointless science, since technology can already do more, and looks the same. Illusion magic? Holograms. Destruction magic? Handheld napalm blasters. Conjuration?! Energy-Matter converters. Everything magic can do, technology can do, but that does n't mean we should n't try. From what we know, magic has potential, a lot of it. With technology, we have to mine and run reactors to power everything, but magic comes from people, and might be capable of breaking one of the most problematic laws of physics, `` Matter can not be created nor destroyed.'' We learned it can be converted from electricity, but that's not creation. Creation is from nothing. All we know for sure though, is a few fundamental laws, which we do n't even really understand why they're like this, unlike gravity and the nuclear forces: 1: Magic can only originate from living organic material. This can include bacteria and the like, but it's not strong from them. 2: Magic must have access to the caster by earth-like air. Simulated mars or Venus air, and vacuums do not work. This one is odd, since we can not detect any transfer, we have no idea how it knows it has access. Lastly, 3: Magic does not need to follow the laws of physics. It does n't even follow gravity, it appears to grab the caster as a reference point, and ignores the existence of gravity, and untouched by the nuclear forces. It does however, interact with material and electricity. 
 
 Y9M11D30 
 
 Almost ten years since we started, and we've made a lot of progress. It's hard, to get funding we must compete with the development of technology. They are developing faster, but I believe we have the higher limit; there can only be so much processing power, you know? Anyway, back to point. We made a nice breakthrough today, turns out magic originates from the Carbon reacting.. with.. something. This explains why only life can do it, but we still do n't know why only living matter can do it, and not recently deceased matter. We also a while ago discovered yes, matter can be created from nothing with magic, but current processes are extremely slow. A weeks worth of a human charging up can only create a few molecules of hydrogen. We had a group of 15 charge up though, and generated an entire 20 Uranium Atoms, seems the more people involved, the stronger the magic. Imagine if we had the world working on this.. 
 
 Y14M3D14 
 
 Haha! We made something visible to the naked eye! With 50 people trained to grow and store magic, charging for two weeks, we created out of nothing, four grains of sand! It does n't sound like much, but this is truly amazing! It proves magic has the higher limit, for technology is not unlimited! I feel so proud of this, and because of this our budget was raised 80 %! I did n't even know they were allowed to increase by that much! I see a good future. 
 
 Y23M8D12 
 
 My life has been dedicated to this work, I shall be called the Einstein of Magic. Through practice and training, I have made myself as strong magically as those 50 people from years ago. It does n't seem like there's a limit to how much we can store or grow, and we've started an experiment, to see if the stored and growth skills are hereditary, why we think it might is classified, but it's a possibility nonetheless. Maybe in a few years, we can create usable objects like technology can. We also started a closed organization meant to learn and develop magic for all their time, and the government has permitted us to `` take'' a few people and test on them, promised it can be made a weapon. I do n't like this personally, but these discoveries are more important than morals. My hopes for magic grow more every day, yet I also feel like I know less every day. 
 
 Y43M1D4 
 
 I'm retiring in a few years to just grow my magical power further, but our whole organization has grown. Every one of us can at least build something as large as a battleship and complicated as the quantum supercomputer of 15 years ago. Nothing compared to the successors, but still incredibly complicated. We learned we can use something called a catalyst to enhance our abilities. Spells are no longer 100 % free when using a catalyst, as the catalyst is used up, but when taking them into account, we should all be able to make something as large as Asia and complicated as the modern supercomputer. Sadly though, they are incredibly complex and difficult to make. Even the matter converters have to slow down and take their sweetass time to generate the stuff. We repurposed an industrial converter to speed it up, but sadly the one we took, although powerful enough to build a city ship once a month, it still takes a year to make an litre of our simplest catalyst, and it only increases magical power by 10 % per litre. Our strongest concoction is projected to increase by 326 % per mL, but it's going to take 25 years to brew 1L of it. 
 
 Y52M6D30 
 
 I've hit middle age, and retired a few years ago. We have enough money from the funding and actual payment for the rest of our lives. We discovered we can use magic to speed up and simplify the catalyst creation process, and have developed a 2 year brewing catalyst that does 1265 % increase. I have grown my powers beyond the rest of the organization, and believe I may be powerful enough to replace or restart our own sun. The rest I assume can only do a planetary size, since when we tested in the Alpha Centauri system, Noah could only do one desert planet before being exhausted, and the rest never tried. I'm developing a lot faster than the rest, it might be that I have no distractions, while the others have families, entertainment, friends, politics, and some even leave for war now. I have none of that. I sleep less than 3 hours a day, and the rest of the day is studying and testing. I have even been able to prolong my life 100 % more than the 450 year life expectancy of everyone else. Maybe one day I'll live over a thousand years before moving to an android body, I'd like that, android body's can not cast magic, and all my training would be moot. 
 
 Y136M3D4 
 
 I have forgotten to leave a journal note for a few years, so I guess ill have to summarize more than usual. I have successfully created an entire solar system, years later I successfully created an entire galaxy, designed so precise every planet is capable or sustaining life. I even created an alien race to fulfill it, but they are not capable of magic. I have given myself total immortality, my body no longer decays. A few of the organization members left, turning uninterested in magic, luckily not all of them have. In my galaxy, I did make one special planet, I made one capable of producing synthetic magic, something thought impossible until now. It also has a firing cylinder, if I choose to destroy something. The governments have been left out of the loop on our power for years, but this galaxy alerted them, they know how strong we are, they have sent an enormous bounty on us, as well as heavily trained squads to assassinate us. Pitiful, they think they can kill what can annihilate their entire civilization. They are dangerous though, they've been attacking my aliens, but that's not the problem, they've corrupted them, now the aliens have desires which I do not believe they should have. I think.. I think I should start over. The aliens are hurt, and our people are hurt. In a few years I'll have my final decision on it. 
 
 Y177M3D6 
 
 I've decided. Our people are dangerous, my aliens are dying. I'm doing it, I'm starting over. Upon this decision, I see the universe start dying, stars and worlds blipping out of existence. As the years pass, the universe is void. Nothing in any direction. I mutter a few words to myself, and from every point in the universe is the centre of the beginning, new galaxies, stars worlds and matter entirely. I recreate my alien race, and ensure they can not use magic, since my power is what triggered my people's demise. 
 
 I give them a single world and tell them to fill the universe. I realize I can not work alone, I am weak and old from what I've done, so I make a few magic capable beings, and do my best to ensure they have my values and desires. My people, my world is good. But what survived is not. 
 
 I remade the universe fully, in 7,000 years. My age is 777 and my power is 1/7 of its original strength. What survived was an enraged colleague, who joined our organization later on. I found he started to shield himself from this specifically, and released himself 1,000 years ago. His age is 666, and his power is 1/6 of mine. I have dubbed him the word of opposition of my people, and after he corrupted my people away from me, I warned them of the dangers of Satan.
