Re: Getting out of this world?

In article <MSGID_2=3A240=2F2199.13=40fidonet_590e49c0@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:

The idea behind it is that magic is an extra <something> inside
atoms. On sub-atomic level things get weird, so I just decided (or
vaguely recall - I'm clueless about physics) that distances don't
matter on that level; magic provides a link from here to there,
whether from brain (where the magic-manipulating thoughts happen) to
object (that's manipulated from a distance), or from person (with
brain) handling say, a statue, through brain of person who believes
manipulating his image has an effect on him to actually having an
effect, or in moving someone/something from here to there instantly.

Just a thought, but why don't you have your folks from 'here' arrive
'there' because of some act of magic on *their* side of the boundary -
perhaps an accidental element of their magical world... Some crazy
would-be magician on their side does an experiment that goes wrong... Or
it simply happens because it's statistically possible for it to happen
if enough of this magical matter happens to coalesce into a particular
form. You could even have that same coalescence be interpreted from this
side as a wormhole appearing and then vanishing for no comprehensible
reason. Though in the magical world, they would have a different
description of it entirely.

Just FWIW.

Richard
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