Is magic real or simply a fairytale?

Mr. Ed said:
Is magic real or simply a fairytale?
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"Magic" as performed by entertainers is just clever slight of hand. Black Magic has practices in many religions, requires the component of belief in order to be effective. Super-natural power is a natural power that most humans have no direct control over. That some people do have such powers can be said as "God given".
 
JonSR77 said:
well, quantum physics says the the vast amount of "matter" is actually space. And that means, under the laws of quantum physics, if atomic structure of a table and a hand lined up just right...one could easily pass a hand through a wooden table.

Now that is not magic, per se. That is just quantum science.

So, one definition of magic could easily be science which is not yet understood.

If one wants to take math and explain things through that, one could take all the ideas of supernatural events and just describe them as the effects of a science, presently unknown.
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Magic can be a perception. What would a cave man think if he saw a tv? Magic box! When things happen that we don't understand, it's magic to us. Then, one day science learns how it happened, and we don't call it magic any more.
 
Trila said:
Magic can be a perception. What would a cave man think if he saw a tv? Magic box! When things happen that we don't understand, it's magic to us. Then, one day science learns how it happened, and we don't call it magic any more.
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You are right of course, but saying so kind of takes the fun out of it. Like telling me there is no Easter Bunny this time of year!
 
If by "magic" you mean stage tricks, along the lines of Penn and Teller, yes, it is real. Someone up there is really doing a stage trick. But they are tricking you into thinking you see something which is not actually happening. What they have made you think you see is not really what happened. Our eyes (and probably our ears too) are extremely suggestible.

If you mean the use of charms, spells, and hocus pocus in general, those things are not "real." They are attempts to fool others into thinking the practitioner has supernatural powers, but no one does. Some things within nature may still be unexplainable, but that doesn't mean they are "magic." It just means we don't understand them yet. I like Jon's definition: Science which is not yet understood.
 

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters traveled on the magic bus called Beyond.
Magical can be a feeling or inspiring
love is magic but if love is magic what is the opposite?
Life is magical or not.
Everything has an explanation either true or false, nothing magical about this? Magic is real if you want it to be. Some say pixie dust is magic, you decide?
 
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