Monday, August 29, 2011

How to Apparate !

[Disclaimer : This is intended only as a comic piece. No, scientists or wizards were harmed in the writing.
@J.K Rowling -> yes, you created harry potter and I made fun of it. Don't sue me, I don't have much anyway.]

Many of you Harry Potter fans believe that apparition is magic. I mean how else do you explain someone disappearing from one place only to reappear somewhere else ?
However, after putting some thought into it, I have concluded that it is in fact nothing but science. Any science advanced enough is akin to magic. Sound familiar ? It will be at least to Isaac Asimov fans (now there was an author far superior to J.K.Rowling, but that's not saying much is it).

Anyway, the truth, apparition is simply the application of quantam mechanics to large bodies. You see, according to quantam mechanics, we are all probabilistically distributed throughout the universe. So, in the process of apparition, we are simply controlling the probability of our being in one place as being in another place. As our probability of existing i one place decreases, we take upon a smoky appearance. This represents some residual random probability of our being in our point of origin. This does not last long and soon disappears.

Last but not least, when disturbed in the middle of an apparition, wizards get 'splinched' as they are now probabilistically distributed throughout the entire route between the point of origin and the intended destination. The wizard in question can not 'un-splinch' his or herself as being in a scattered state, can't really gather his or her thoughts well enough to carry out complex calculations dealing with four dimensional vector space ! :D

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