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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8468203" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Well, the idea is that Quandrix represents <em>control over reality</em>, as opposed to the focuses of the other colleges. Do you control reality--existence--by <em>understanding</em> it, or by physically <em>maniuplating</em> it? Wizards do the former, Druids do the latter, but each influences the other. It's hard to make theories that can actually achieve something if you completely ignore practical applications, and the purpose of theory in most cases is to explain and control things. Conversely, it's hard to really have a grip on the physical situation if you have no idea (or only intuitive pre-ideas about) its underlying structure and mechanisms--if you can't explain <em>why</em> certain actions lead to certain results, you'll easily be blindsided by unexpected situations.</p><p></p><p>Quandrix represents the intersection between physics and mathematics. It's the place where experimentalists invent new theory to be able to talk cogently about their results (like when Paul Dirac made up the initially-ridiculous, but necessary, Dirac delta function in order to normalize his equations, which only took on well-defined properties after it inspired Laurent Schwartz to develop the theory of distributions). It's also where theoreticians develop new theories that only later are discovered to be concretely useful (as when Riemann developed non-Euclidean geometries, which turn out to be essential for Einsteinian relativity).</p><p></p><p>In this sense, druids are the physicists and wizards are the mathematicians. But sometimes you get wizards who are a bit more practical and druids who are driving at deep underlying wisdom rather than physically practical results.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8468203, member: 6790260"] Well, the idea is that Quandrix represents [I]control over reality[/I], as opposed to the focuses of the other colleges. Do you control reality--existence--by [I]understanding[/I] it, or by physically [I]maniuplating[/I] it? Wizards do the former, Druids do the latter, but each influences the other. It's hard to make theories that can actually achieve something if you completely ignore practical applications, and the purpose of theory in most cases is to explain and control things. Conversely, it's hard to really have a grip on the physical situation if you have no idea (or only intuitive pre-ideas about) its underlying structure and mechanisms--if you can't explain [I]why[/I] certain actions lead to certain results, you'll easily be blindsided by unexpected situations. Quandrix represents the intersection between physics and mathematics. It's the place where experimentalists invent new theory to be able to talk cogently about their results (like when Paul Dirac made up the initially-ridiculous, but necessary, Dirac delta function in order to normalize his equations, which only took on well-defined properties after it inspired Laurent Schwartz to develop the theory of distributions). It's also where theoreticians develop new theories that only later are discovered to be concretely useful (as when Riemann developed non-Euclidean geometries, which turn out to be essential for Einsteinian relativity). In this sense, druids are the physicists and wizards are the mathematicians. But sometimes you get wizards who are a bit more practical and druids who are driving at deep underlying wisdom rather than physically practical results. [/QUOTE]
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