Junious
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Electrical engineering works by grossly simplifying Maxwell's laws using the so called lumped matter discipline, such that consequential side effects are ignored unless they cause a problem. People called physicists do actually understand this variable, and make careers out of arguing about it. If you told a mathematician you thought a laplace transform was magic, they'd pat you on the head and smile. Its a consequence of our number system, not magic!Regardless of whether or not programming itself is magic electricity most certainly is. Like you're telling me that I have to worry about directional vectors in a domain that's physically meaningless? How the hell do you even measure direction in this scenario? Yet we do and it works. Somehow.
Most of the math behind electrical engineering is done by taking this one variable, slapping it into your equations and doing some laplace transforms (also magic) and you end up with your results. No one really understands this variable, it's just there and it works. The more you learn about electronics the crazier it gets and it makes less and less sense. Sure you'll understand how to do things but you'll never understand why things are the way they are.
Is there an argument to be made that programming is sort of magic by proxy because it runs off of magic? Maybe