1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks--he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he can't learn any more; he can only do these five. HOWEVER, it turns out he's doing these five tricks with real magic. It's not an illusion; he can actually conjure the bunny out of the ether and he can move the coin through space. He's legitimately magical, but extremely limited in scope and influence.
Would this person be more impressive than Albert Einstein?
You know, I want to say yes, but really the only thing I would be impressed with would be the possibilities that the magic might be able to provide if people like Albert Einstein could unlock them. What's more, this magician that I've met can not learn any more magic than the very basic tricks he has already learned? Why not? Wouldn't he have seen peoples condescension coming? If he didn't have a choice of what tricks to learn then at least he didn't mAke the mistake but it also means that the acquisition of the tricks were more luck than knowledge. No, Einstein was a brilliant man, who helped unlock pieces of the universe that will affect me and man kind. He wins.
Simply because to make these questions less overwhelming, I'm only going to list one or two per day for 22 days (approximately). Toodles.
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