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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1535328" data-attributes="member: 1328">In my homebrew, I guess the answer would be "probably, but who is going to know that anyway?"I mean, gluball and pentaquarks are fun, but whether you make it through magic or through technology (or both together), a particle accelerator is needed to detect them. So you first need to have people get the idea of accelerating particles.While real-life science works, magic is usually much more efficient. Who would bother creating a determinist model of climatic variation when you can't observe a climate that isn't set by the spirit of the land, and tampered with by druids? In a world with teleport, which Einstein would say that nothing can accelerate past the speed of light?Science (by which I mean the corpus of ideas and way of thinking associated with the scientific mindset) just don't work the same way. For example, IMC, there are theories on how the universe works. But these theories must deal with more than the material plane, for they have to deal with the inner, outer, and transitive planes too.IMC, I've used the concept of dimensions. No one can perceive the whole universe, only partial aspects of it. Mortals, in particular, are limited to the perception of 3½ dimensions: 3 of space, and one half of time. Through magic, however, it is possible to modify the dimensions perceived.The elemental plane of fire is the dimension of fire, in that it is a cross-section of all the fire element of the universe. Its three spacial dimensions are not the three geometric dimensions of the material plane, but will be interpreted the same way by the mind. Likewise for the planes of water, air, earth...The ethereal, astral, and shadow planes are other cross-sections of the universe.The Far Realms are outside of the universe, and don't have dimensions. It has things that could be called pseudodimensions, but they don't work the same way dimension do (and it is possible they don't work at all, in fact), and a mind can't interpret them.</blockquote>

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