Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity.

Chapter 16 Why Do Wizards Reject Science?

After Roger noticed this, he didn't pay any more attention to it.

Because the confrontation between Harry and Draco in front of Professor McGonagall did not happen as planned, Roger was a little worried that if he flapped his wings, Voldemort would do something big.

If there is a change in this direction, I will have to inform Dumbledore.

But not now.

Since Dumbledore has already noticed Quirrell's abnormality, there is no need for him to add unnecessary details.

A soul without a body, with the enemy knowing clearly that he is also in control, cannot turn the tables in the hands of Dumbledore who is fighting at home.

Just eat and study with peace of mind this year.

Roger put his heart at ease and followed his senior to the Gryffindor common room after the dinner.

There's not much to say about this process. There are magic moving stairs that can easily make people lost, talking portraits, dormitories with multiple people, and completely unfamiliar roommates.

Roger fell asleep with doubts about whether the portraits and ghosts were the continuation of life or the echo of death, and with anticipation for the next day's class.

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Roger has always had another puzzlement, besides the fact that wizards' magic is almost like a wish-making machine, why wizards have not developed in the direction of immortals.

In Potions class.

"Potter!" said Snape suddenly, "what would I get if I added narcissus root powder to a mugwort infusion?"

What kind of grass root powder should be put into what solution? Harry glanced at his good friend Ron, who was also stunned like him.

"I don't know, sir," said Harry.

Snape curled his lips contemptuously.

"Tsk, tsk...it seems that fame doesn't mean everything."

Potions Professor Snape ignored Hermione, who was about to raise her hands to the ceiling, eager to show off her wisdom, and Roger, who was also quite famous in the wizarding community. The drama of asking crazy questions to Harry Potter and mocking Harry Potter, which was not worthy of his reputation, had just ended.

At this moment, the students were preparing the simple healing potion written in the first chapter of the textbook under Snape's guidance.

Cut the materials with a knife, pound the medicine with a pestle, measure the weight of the materials with a beam scale, pour water into the crucible to cook... Roger handled the entire process smoothly.

But his previous doubts were within these processes.

In wizarding society, many process steps can be made more convenient and less error-prone by using Muggle technology, so why not incorporate it?
Judging from the Hogwarts train and the flying magic car, wizarding civilization is obviously not averse to absorbing things they find interesting from Muggle society.

The combination of magic and science may be a way to break the upper limit of the power of wizard civilization!

This doubt was naturally resolved after he finished his closed-door magic studies, attended some classes at Hogwarts, and saw the details of other wizards' spellcasting during the teaching process.

I overlooked an important thing!!
Magic is a miracle created by the mind and magic power.

The steps of wizard magic casting are roughly described as follows...

[I want to cast a spell → I really want to → my thoughts connect to the magic power → the magic power senses the caster's idea, and then lets the universe do it → a magical phenomenon occurs, and the spell is cast successfully]

For many spellcasting processes, if the process is not accurate enough, even the wizard himself does not know what the result of the spell will be.

Although it seems that there is a feeling that 'wizards only need me to think, but magic requires more considerations'.

But in fact, the result of spellcasting is still determined by the wizard himself. Magic has no independent consciousness. The deviation in spellcasting is affected by the wizard's own distracting thoughts that he himself cannot perceive.

It is very difficult for people to control their distracting thoughts, like 'thinking of nothing for 3 minutes'. Among the 70 billion people in the world, it is not certain that there are only 7 who can do this.

When you are asleep or unconscious, your thoughts will not stop.

Since human will is so important in the process of spellcasting, will the wizard's cognition of the world also have a significant impact on spellcasting? !
The answer is yes.

Through observing other students and professors casting spells and interviewing them, Roger came to his conclusion.

Up to a certain limit, the clearer a wizard's understanding of the basic rules of how the world works, the more restricted the power of his spells will be.

The reason is that he has reduced the space in which magic can be freely exerted.

For example, a spell that creates high-temperature flames.

If a young wizard receives Muggle education and knows the characteristics of flame temperature, but does not know how to create such a high temperature, he will subconsciously think "I can't do it", thus limiting his power. It is good enough to be able to exert 30% of his 100% strength.

However, the young wizard who has no knowledge of the principles of fire and simply believes that "my fire can devour and sweep away everything" will have more room for magic to be exerted. Not only will the temperature of his spell reach the upper limit of his mental strength, it may even have the curse magic effect of "devouring".

Of course, if a person fully understands the underlying principles of all fire rules, he will not be bound by any aspect.

Even because his will was extremely clear when he cast the spell, and every detail was extremely sharp, the mental power consumed in casting the spell was greatly reduced compared to other wizards!
Therefore, the problem of magic power is just a small matter, and it is not unsolvable. After overcoming this hurdle, you may become even stronger.

The real reason why wizards reject science is another one.

Science is never a specific technology, but a way of thinking.

A way of thinking that analyzes the basic principles of how everything works bit by bit through assumptions, arguments, and practice.

It can even be said that in the world of cultivating immortals, enlightenment is also a kind of science.

The skills are the formulas and theorems they have summarized from generation to generation, refining equipment is the study of materials science, and refining corpses and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner can be considered an application of life science.

The same theory doesn't work when applied to wizards.

The characteristics of magic are a hurdle that wizards cannot avoid when embracing science!

In the Muggle scientific community, one can turn a blind eye to the dark clouds and unsolvable problems hanging over the physics and mathematics worlds.

Even if the mathematical system itself is incomplete, so what? As long as the commonly used conventional mathematics such as Euclidean geometry is complete, that's enough.

As for the wizarding world, if you want to pursue science but cannot explain what magic is, it will lead to extremely terrible consequences...

Some wizards with weak minds, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and stubborn thinking will question magic itself.

When a wizard begins to question magic, magic will gradually drift away from the wizard. Magic is a miracle that requires belief. If you no longer believe in your own magic, then you will lose the magic!

Once a trend of thought emerges and begins to spread, then...

Self-explanatory.

Roger understood why wizards did not accept the seemingly more advanced scientific thinking, but continued to hold on to their old foundation in semi-isolation from Muggles, trying to seek breakthroughs from the three paths of "self-transformation", "ritual" and "external objects".

Because, before the wizard is powerful enough to understand magic, studying magic will not have good results.

Magic has no thoughts, but the wizard's own 'inner demons' will defeat them!

It might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that a paper on a new theory of magic could explode a researcher's brain, but it is not impossible that it could temporarily disable some people's magical abilities.

So... people who like to delve into the truth, do they really have no way out in the current wizarding system?

Do not!
Just like the book "Ritual Magic Is Much More Than Blood Sacrifice", the wizard ancestors with amazing wisdom have already given the answer and the path to the future!
"Stop!" Roger, who was processing the potion and thinking about the problem, suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Following the instincts developed on the battlefield, he waved his hand and cast magic.

On another desk beside him, Neville, who was working with Seamus, turned the porcupine quills he was about to put into the crucible into a pot lid.

If you put porcupine quills into the crucible before it's removed from the fire, the potion for curing boils will become a highly corrosive poison that can burn through the crucible and cause boils all over anyone who comes into contact with it!
By then, the potion would be all over the floor, and not only would I be splashed with it, but the class would probably have to be stopped halfway.

The other students around were puzzled by Roger's sudden spell.

Snape turned his attention away from Harry and looked back.

He glanced at Roger and snorted unhappily, "One point for Gryffindor for your keen observation."

Then he glanced at Neville again.

"And you, what an idiotic move! Why don't you take the cauldron off the fire? One point deducted from Gryffindor!"

Back and forth, no addition or subtraction. If Roger was a Slytherin, the result would probably be very different.

After Neville hurriedly did as he was told, Roger also removed the deformation of the porcupine quills.

Well, Transfiguration.

This is the path of those who delve into truth, the magic of rationalists!

During his studies, Roger discovered that the seemingly insignificant art of Transfiguration actually had quite terrifying potential.

As the greatest wizard in Britain this century and President of the International Confederation of Wizards, Headmaster Dumbledore is best at Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and he was once a professor of Transfiguration.

Professor McGonagall, the current vice-president and future headmaster, is also the professor of Transfiguration.

Is this a coincidence?
(End of this chapter)