The Magic Academy’s Physicist Chapter 6 Discussion

I would recommend anyone with basic scientific knowledge to shy away from this novel. The egregious errors makes it utterly infuriating to read.

The author inserts random technical jargon to impress his uneducated readers. God, it makes me so angry. At least stick to normal units and read the Wikipedia articles before writing!

For example,

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The author describes the transistor as an Free Energy Generator! The presence of which can amplify the power of magic 10, 000 times! (In reality, the transistor operates as a simple switch, and cannot amplify the magnitude of a voltage beyond the voltage with which it is supplied)

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The author also likes to use units that he doesn't understand.

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He used the millisievert to measure the Light Arrow spell's power, saying that ~20 millisieverts can defeat a large animatronic drake. First, the sievert is (roughly) a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation, and is not a measurement of power/energy. Second, 20 millisieverts can do f*ck all. You need 3, 000-5, 000 millisieverts to kill a human, slowly, after a few weeks. Third, Ionizing radiation would do little to nothing against machines, as they are not made of flesh and blood.

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I rest my case. If you don't know / care about physical phenomenons, this doesn't seem to be a bad read. If you, however, like me, hoped that this novel will integrate real science with magic, you will surely be disappointment.

Other golden quotes include:

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"When two waves of the same phase met, the intensity grew exponentially" (factually wrong, as waves sum their intensities. That is, when waves a and b undergo additive interference, their intensity is a + b, not a * b.)

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