Can you imagine what a powerful wizard would accomplish with a high level physics degree and a strong grasp of more-than-basic mathematics?
This is explored in a decent piece of fan-fiction called "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". In it, Petunia is married to an Oxford professor, and she's one too, and they adopt Harry and are very loving parents. Harry is a boy genius who, by the age of 11, knows quite a bit about the scientific method, rationality, psychology, genetics and physics. So when he finds out he's a wizard, he goes to Hogwarts intent on figuring out the physics of magic. Much hilarity follows, as Harry and his super intelligent rival/best friend Hermione try doing precisely that.
It isn't flawless, but certainly a cool exploration of the world.
anti science mindset in fantasy?
31/07/2011 07:32:16 PM
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Just wanna say
31/07/2011 10:52:17 PM
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Uhh...
31/07/2011 11:31:29 PM
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Re: Uhh...
01/08/2011 02:00:56 AM
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Shields stop physical things..
01/08/2011 05:16:28 AM
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if the books mention that specifically, fine then
02/08/2011 12:14:47 AM
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Again, read the books...
02/08/2011 07:15:27 AM
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Anti-science
02/08/2011 01:36:04 PM
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That doesn't make it anti-science...
02/08/2011 02:56:58 PM
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Re: That doesn't make it anti-science...
02/08/2011 09:56:41 PM
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Because...
03/08/2011 04:21:43 AM
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a note on the "Anti-Muggle Technlogy"attitude...
03/08/2011 05:44:05 AM
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I can actually imagine that...
03/08/2011 07:41:24 AM
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Thanks for proving again that books are better than movies... *NM*
01/08/2011 12:17:26 AM
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Well it sounds to me like you're not thinking about the term "science" correctly.
03/08/2011 05:29:42 AM
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personally, I've always seen SF as a sub genre of Fantasy
03/08/2011 07:02:02 AM
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