It is interesting that time travel imagery usually resembles some sort of unstable fluid vortex. Also hyperspace/subspace imagery if imagined as more than an instantaneous “jump”
Wonder if this imagery is intuitive or we all got it from tv/movies
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Western visualization of magic is usually wavy fluid.
Eastern visualization of magic is usually geometric.
You can see in Avengers how Dr Strange learned Eastern magic so he uses rigid symbols for time distortion.
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Huh, that's a fascinating observation. Though fuzzy at the edges. Western magic has things like pentagrams and other symbols etc drawn in wicca. Eastern magic has flow-like notions in chi or kundalini.
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There's probably more syntax that could be teased out. Like, energy is usually wavy, but spells are usually geometric. Transitions are usually blurry.
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rational/geometric vs irrational/fuzzy


