The discovery of this "Law" of the Physical World changed Western Science Completely, essentially propelling Western Science forward. It was, in the very best Tradition of Western Science, tried and retried, tested and retested, until any Scientist who chose to test it had to attest to it being a LAW OF NATURE.
Move some time forward and Quantum Mechanics eventually proved that not _all_ the Universe was quite so simple, but let us put that aside for a moment, it having little affect on this Hypothesis.
Newton's Hypothesis is proven and re-proven again with objects of a certain _MAGNITUDE_. Size being the main difference between a Basket Ball which follows Newtonian Mechanics and an Electron which follows Quantum Mechanics.
So we all know that if we drop something heavy it will fall. Simple, right?
Next, I'd like to add in the Scientific efforts of Dr. Lorenz at M.I.T., the progenitor of "Chaos Mathematics," who was the first to be able to program a very sizeable computer to monitor specific weather patterns and try to _PREDICT_ them.
His discovery was that the "Mechanics" of Mother Nature were very, very complicated indeed; THOUGH THEY ARE STILL _MECHANICS_. It may have taken the Evolution of the Supercomputer to be able to even _Compute_ the Variables Necessary to discover that inside seemingly RANDOM spirals of air and currents of water exist PATTERNS, these patterns were dubbed "STRANGE ATTRACTORS" due to the way in which surrounding atoms seems attracted in specific way, and the first one he discovered (a sort of double-butterfly-wing-spiral) is aptly called the "Lorenz Attractor."
This gave birth to the ever famous Meme of the "BUTTERFLY EFFECT," the idea that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world can cause HURRICANES in another, due to a sort of Chaotic DOMINO EFFECT. Because of the massive MAGNITUDE of VARIABLES in an equation like "Weather Prediction" it takes a comparetively complex computer, as well as a KNOWLEDGE OF ALL VARIABLES, in order to acurately map the "Newtonian Mechanics" involved in causing a Hurricaine from a BUtterfly's wings...
Yet we all know that computers are only getting better and better. Is it _NOT_ just a matter of time until a computer exists which WILL hold all the VARIABLES and our limited human knowledge of ATTRACTORS and Quantum/Newtonian Mechanics and thus SOON be able to PERFECTLY PREDICT THE WEATHER...? I think it already exists and it's name is Artificial Intelligence.
This is all just my "set up." For I hope you will see that, if we do indeed live in a MECHANICAL UNIVERSE, then "Magick" _MUST_ exist and I will tell you why: BECAUSE WE NOW KNOW, FOR "SCIENTIFIC FACT," THAT EVERY ACTION WE TAKE EFFECTS THE WORLD AROUND US IN INCOMPREHENSIBLY (to _us) COMPLEX WAYS...
So when someone asserts to me that I can get more money by making a certain offering at a Crossroads and lighting a candle, at a certain date, at a certain time, with particular ingrediants... and I do as directed... and I get the results promised... I have to see that there is SCIENCE at work here. Simply one our human computer brains cannot CONSCIOUSLY CALCULATE.
Think about that... "FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION" & "THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT." To me this speaks of the possibility of Using "Opposite Reactions," like a Pool Player uses Banking or Chess player setting up a Long Game.
"Work Smarter not harder," is another proverb I appreciate.
For anyone who discounts that "Magick is Real;" They need only be asked if they believe in NEWTON or MATH or COMPUTERS - Because they all support that we can do amazing things by very, very, very, INDIRECT METHODS... so what are you afraid of? Too much personal power? Too much responsability for your own life? Your own pains? Your own Failures? most people are...
...So Science says Magick is REAL... Most BIBLES say Magick is Real... Many, Many credible Academics and Shamen the world over say Magick is Real... why so much DENIAL???
