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[shrewd_emmy]

I believe I have made a mistake by passionately expressing my wish to continue Muggle Studies to NEWT level to Professor Sprout late last term. I figured that since my father's a Muggle, he might be able to give me some insight into certain Wizarding concepts from his point of view. Yet after looking through the first few chapters of our book for

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[stricken_alice]

...I don't even know where to begin...

I've heard of Time, and Travel, and Space... and comic books, so I'm part-way there.

[shrewd_emmy]

At least you're part-way there, Alice. I hardly know where to begin with this...with any of this. The Muggle science books I have borrowed from my father have mathematical equations that contain more letters and symbols than numbers!

I knew I shouldn't have told Professor Cavendish that I was going to take up making my own levitating broom the Muggle way for my project for independent study.

Defying gravity is no easy task apparently.

[readycannon]

Wait, no easy task? Don't you mean impossible? If Muggles can't make anything float the Muggle way, how do you think you will?

Oh wait, I'm wrong! They make those big metal ships float, don't they? How do they do that? I guess you'll just use whatever they use, right? How interesting! I can't wait to see it.

[shrewd_emmy]

Yes, that they do, Anna. And not just floating metal ships, but gigantic metal crafts that glide through air as well. Now making wooden ships float, I can understand that, since wood floats on water as is. Yet metal sinks, so it's all really quite mind-blowing. I think it really has to do with how the object is shaped so that it would obey certain laws.

These Muggles...they seem to follow more laws than Solicitors.

I just hope I don't end up making some gigantic space craft, however. I'm trying to preserve the shape and structure of the broom as much as I can. Perhaps I should start my first trial with large firework rockets...

[sissyblack]

The hell are you on about? You are not making any sense!

[shrewd_emmy]

Well...how about this? Ever heard of 'wormholes', Narcissa? They are technically shortcuts the Muggles have proposed to exist between two separated points in the space-time continuum. According to theory, one can step into one end of a wormhole and emerge through the other end to find yourself anywhere from a million miles away from your starting point, or even 10,000 years into the past or future.

The theories the Muggles have come up with usually center around any body that exists in a fixed point in time, which makes explaining out Wizarding concepts from a Muggle point of view extremely difficult. Therefore the topic of wormholes may just very well be a possible way to explain how we arrive at Platform Nine and 3/4 every summer, or why Apparation becomes obsolete when the destination is Hogwarts' grounds.

And why am I even explaining this out to you?

[severthesnape]

Those are some rather big and interesting words you're using, Vance. Of course they mean nothing to me, or to wizardkind in general, but you enjoy yourself playing with your...Thermodynamics. Whatever that is.

[shrewd_emmy]

I'd take it that thermodynamics is a study about the overall motion of their particles, which can be roughly summarised by the following four laws:

0th: You have to play the game.
1st: You simply cannot win.
2nd: You can never break even.
3rd: You can never end the game.

Overall, thermodynamics should mean something to you, since we find ourselves obeying its laws whether we like it or not.