looks at schematic

FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!

eyebrow dance

Lightning would be wild magic

Said it before and I'll say it again: just because you understand the magic doesn't make it any less magical. A wizard may know the ins and outs of their spells, but they're still spells. Our entire universal is fucking magical, we just happen to have a decent understanding of why (some) of it functions the way it does. Jiggle a quark here and another may jiggle the same way somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, that's fucking wild and magical and incredible, and just because we have some level of understanding behind the mechanics doesn't make it not magic. It just makes it a hard magic system.

Squint at this (from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia) and these might be either ancient sigils or electronic symbols*.

EDIT: Fixed a typo

We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.

It's chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.

Also, that's a control spell, not a summoning one.

Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.

That diagram is just heat with extra steps.

You think a rectified transformer is a magic circle? Get a load of the Smith Chart

That summoning circle is gonna need some filtering... Jus sayin...

We don’t know what the fuck consciousness is.

Um akshually, that's a rectification circle.

The mages of Electrical Engineering reseach the tools and formulars to control the magic. The mages of Hardware Engineering develop under great effort the sigils and rituals of how the rocks must be processed. The Warlocks of the CPU use the near infinit possibilities of algorithms and the power of the evolved rocks to create worlds nobody could ever have imagined (in exchange for the ability to go outside).

Yeah but it's too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔

No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items

When we figure out how to manipulate elctro-weak at scale, it will be magic.

Electro-mag is pretty crazy already, I agree. The ICP can't even figure out how they work.

For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like ... what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?

Hm, the stuff in wires is electrical current, but the stuff in nerves is static electricity based on an electrochemical gradient. Yeah i guess that all falls under the heading of electricity. No quibbles, carry on.

I'd expand it to electromagnetic fields or something instead of just electricity.

Full bridge rectifier¿

Thick eye brows intensifies!

But the summoning circle doesn't do anything on its own, you have to build it and then go and find the electricity to plug into it yourself

RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!

While I fully agree, I thought the distinction was unbreakable rules.

The laws of physics can’t be broken, even, under any circumstances, everywhere, at any time.

Whereas magic is more like there is an exception to every rule kind of deal. It’s far more like software, as in it’s mostly fully logically consistent except for random spots where devs took some shortcuts to make life easier.

Well, there's actually a sourcebook for Arcane Engineering

Small tiktok video from the author

the diagram is an AC to DC converter.

It's the motive force! Not some heretical warp magic.

https://xkcd.com/730/

I like to think of circuits as aquaducts for electricity. Electroducts if you will.