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The inversion is certainly there. The appreciation was that this is an older source placing "soul of a living person moved into a rock" as a possibility. I know no other plots older yet, with content just like this. Egyptian stuff wouldn't count, as they have a very different concept of Soul. As far as "moving the soul back out of the rock," OurMilageMayVary. IRL, I don't think they moved any souls at any time. It's just a concept. The logic of their preaching, however is possibly something we could learn from, and use.
Yup. Matched my idea, but I can try to decorate it.
Magic isn't just native to some species here, it is a component of the Universe. The possibility of Magic would be like one of the constants in the Standard Model. Matter, and then Life developed with this as a background condition.
Maybe that is why Magic is occulted, and rare? To properly direct and control Magic, an emotional being is required. Or, nothing short of intelligent life is required, intelligence and that extra factor must be joined. What would other cases of Magic use result in?
That might explain why only Sufficiently Advanced technology can easily let humans use Magic. If Magic energy were released by an algae cell, or an ant, what would the result be? My model says that these would either immediately destroy the caster, or lead to an extinction event for the rest of the life around it later. Probably dragging the caster down too. Life would have hit this problem many times, until the whole ecosystem developed safeguards to prevent biological access to the Magic domain. After that, Life would be able to advance in the way we understand it. The safety would be built in really deep, just as death is a precondition to multicellular complex animals. Evolved life now includes control systems that are up to the job, but the choice to transact with Magic energy has been cut off already.
Orthodoxy, easily obtained. Ask QM.
If I answer, you get fantasy...
I think Homura would have Words with us about that. Good thing, "That won't be neccessary!"
Humans can't (properly) use Magic. If they ever do, it is nearly invisible. But how do they "have" so much Potential? If one converts to the other, does it not stand to reason that both have some sort of effect as a consequence of simply existing? What is the consequence of high potential, if casting magic isn't it?
Kinetic potential energy could be "height." The object won't have kinetic energy, until that height is traded away.
Without being "fast," the object with great potential energy under gravity is going to possess a coordinate position - it will be way up there. IRL, that also means different circumstances than matter not located in the same place.
If I understand it correctly, Madoka IS magic, right now. In multiple senses, in fact. Part of her Potential is bound into Madokami. Some is moving in the H-M causality loop, generating more potential. Some is energizing Sabrina, and probably everyone else. The remaining Potential is still "hooge" enough to be the source of Kreimhilde Gretchen in this timeline.
So, this comes down to basics.
What is Potential? Or, what does it affect?
All that Potential must mean something, beyond robo-calls from the Incubator...
I suspect Madoka cannot, even more than others, cast magic as she is now. It would mess with the "balance." By the definition of "optimizer," Kyuubey doesn't hack that balance for Contracts, only because it doesn't work.
If she practices using the Enchantment of others, I'd advise us to have the camera out! We just might see a whisp of leakage that way. Not planet-cracking malfunctions, but who knows what sort of admin-code silliness we would be measuring? As a baseline, what if Enchantment she holds acts as intended and seems to use - no magic power at all - until she ceases to be the one directing it?
OTOH, should the fate of so many Earths not affect something in everyday physics?
Maybe this works (at 10^-18 multiplier) for all Potential humans? Is that how Potential is sensed? It would explain Kyuubey mounting sub-atomic resolution matter scan capability on Contract drones.
Look in Madoka's shadows, for they are they dreams of a hundred worlds. My expectation is that her "soft power" would be immense - nearly as great as any Wish, but wrapped in quantum diffusion. She never sees it, we never watch things change, but somehow the reality just out of view bends. It might include a synergistic random component. Concentrating or asking or rituals would result in nothing. This isn't a Haruhi power, it is more along the lines of the artwork - Madoka is tied to the world. Serendipity and "random" variables are depending upon her. Her weight changes what happens, but it cannot equal "control," that is what her Witch is.
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