Cause and Effect

[ysabetwordsmith]

 ... can be reciprocal.  I am amused that scientists have finally gotten around to noticing something that is mentioned in many mystical systems around the world.  And quantum mechanics, of course, where scientists have spent decades staring at the double arrow moaning "That can't be right!" instead of asking "How could this be right?  What would it look like if this bit of science applied to some parts of the world?  Can we find any examples of reciprocal causality?"

Dudes.  If you're doing science, you have to actually do the science.  You can't just ignore parts that make you uncomfortable.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I often wonder what sort of toolbag a quantum mechanic would carry! :o)

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I find crystals useful myself. Some other folks are into mathemagic isntead. YMMV.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Reciprocal mathematics is fractals. That's literally what the double-arrow in a reciprocal equation means, cyclic self-reference.

Reciprocal chemistry is when each side of the equation can form and decay over and over again into each other. Usually, all you need to do is add and remove heat, or cycle an electric charge (as with batteries).

Reciprocal behavior is often a heterodyning effect that leads to (causes) both war and altruism, since it polarizes harmony and disharmony. These activities tend to cause themselves in a kind of pulse-and-decay pattern over time as cultures separate and intermix.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

In nature, pretty much everything cycles or balances somehow. Evaporation and rain. Stars explode and form new stars. Entropy and syntropy, the universe itself winding and unwinding like a cosmic clock spring.

[meridian_rose]

If you're doing science, you have to actually do the science. You can't just ignore parts that make you uncomfortable. Exactly so :)
I think it's "Hogfather" by Prachett in which "things the effect happens a little before the cause" because the Discworld in magical after all. But why can't magic be real here too? :)