Anna takes some more notes.
"So...Exactly how the physics-based construction would resolve itself...
Are you sure magic isn't another fundamental force? It sounds like it is...
Also, wouldn't it be that a closed system's energy has just changed state from magical to thermal or electromagnetic?
Um. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the caster would immediately lose their spell as it leeched their magic below the point needed to sustain, versus saying it couldn't take effect at all? Because it obviously could, for at the moment in which it is cast, the caster has sixty 'points' and can cast it, and then loses 50 from their cap, which renders them unable to maintain the spell. But that doesn't make it impossible to cast in the first place. Just stupid. Wouldn't it? I mean, you say it will fail, not refuse.
It's not paradoxical, simply a waste of time to try.
Again, you keep saying these things, and I cannot help but be convinced that magic is by necessity couched in the same things as the rest of reality is, because that's the hypothesis that makes the most sense as of yet and there has been no evidence presented to disprove it.
Okay, here's a paradox though:Could you go back in time and stop yourself from going back in time with magic? Unless the universe doesn't give a shit for linearity of individual timelines, in which much more probable case, you already failed...
Uhhh...No, that's quantum physics, but it's still equally nonparadoxical because when you observe a thing that may or may not exist, it is either one or the other....Right?"