History Main / SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic

* Referenced during the 'Cinderella' non-canon arc of ''GirlGenius''. After using her SteamPunk tech-knowledge to repair the Good Fairy's magic wand, Agatha makes page quote "Any magic sufficiently analyzed is indistinguishable from science."

** The world he lives in is explicitly one where most spells are nearly imposible to analyze because the more complex the spell is, the more it's changed by multiple random factors.

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* Most of the alchemists in ''{{Baccano}}!'' were content to discover the secret of alchemy. [[MadScientist Szilard and Huey]], on the other hand, decided to test everything related to it from, "exactly how ''fast'' do I heal from each individual injury?"[[hottip:* :Regeneration is variable depending on both the severity of the injury and how many times it's been received before. The more times you've had your head blown off, the faster it reconstructs itself.]] to "can I combine human and dolphin DNA to create a viable homunculus?"[[hottip:* :''Yes'']]

** Goodie Whemper ("maysherestinpeace") was a "research witch" who live in Mad Stoat, Lancre. She investigated such things as exactly what species should be used for the "eye of newt". One of her triumphs was discovering the exact breed of apple and type of knife to use in the old "predict your future husband's name with a thrown apple peel" if you wanted it to actually work; otherwise it would inevitably spell SCSSSC. Magrat inherited her cottage after her premature death during an experiment to find out how many bristles you could pull out of a broomstick midflight (not quite that many as it turns out).

* DwarfFortress has various magical creatures, like bloodmen ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin humanoids made of blood]]), and a robust physics engine. When these meet, [[RealityEnsues reality]] and [[MadScience Dwarvern Science]] ensue. The aforementioned bloodmen, for instance, can literally be frozen to death in cold climates. When magic is fully implemented, though, Tarn Adams plans to make it WildMagic; whether or not this will stop DwarfFortress players from dissecting it and using it to power {{pointless doomsday device}}s remains to be seen.

** [[YourMilageMayVary and depending on your definition of "God"]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome it worked.]]

* ''{{Erfworld}}'''s Parson Gotti is noted by Sizemore in a conversation to takes this approach to learning how Erfworld and its gamelike mechanics work. Notable because those who ''wield'' magic in the world are typically content to solve their quandaries about how stuff works with heated philosophy and self-serving hearsay. It's likely that there are ''very'' few Erfworlders who really ''know'' the rules of their world.
** It seems as if most Erfworlders are born (or "popped") with an innate understanding of the most basic rules of the world, and this inherent knowledge tends to discourage further questioning ("Why ask questions when you already know most of the answers that matter?"). But Parson is ignorant of even the most basic aspects of Erfworld - and in asking ''those'' questions, he's also asking the sort of questions that lead to discoveries and tactics no one else in the world ever dreamed of.

* The eponymous court in ''GunnerkriggCourt'' dedicates much of its time to the "etheric sciences".

* {{Nasuverse}}. Magic users tend to be very scholar-like, studying spells and the workings of mana and magical beings, experimenting to harness the sorceries, and passing their knowledge on to their descendants.\

* {{Nasuverse}}. Magic users tend to be very scholar-like, studying spells and the workings of mana and magical beings, experimenting to harness the sorceries, and passing their knowledge on to their descendants.

* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'', this is what separates Wizards from other spellcasters. To a greater extent, this is separates Archmages and practicers of metamagic from other spellcasters.

* In CodeGeass, this is how Lelouch takes to his Geass power after an awkward situation with Kallen where he first realizes it has limitations- namely, that it won't work on the same person more than once. Before making serious use of it again, he conducts several tests on random students to see what other limitations it has.

* DwarfFortress has various magical creatures, like bloodmen (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin humanoids made of blood), and a robust phsyics engine. When these meet, [[RealityEnsues reality]] and [[MadScience Dwarvern Science]] ensue. The aforementioned bloodmen, for instance, can literally be frozen to death in cold climates. When magic is fully implemented, though, Tarn Adams plans to make it WildMagic; whether or not this will stop DwarfFortress players from dissecting it and using it to power {{pointless doomsday device}}s remains to be seen.

* [[Nasuverse]]. Magic users tend to be very scholar-like, studying spells and the workings of mana and magical beings, experimenting to harness the sorceries, and passing their knowledge on to their descendants.

-->-- '''Agatha Heterodyne / Cinderella''''s interpretation of Niven, from ''GirlGenius''.