"Mhm. Ghosts can have their own names, but mine strictly refuses to go by anything I call him, so we'll just stick with O High Snob of the Humorless Plenty," Mac drawls, sticking his tongue out at the thought of his companion. He rolls his eyes dramatically and even adds flopping against the table and sliding back into his seat with a groan for emphasis. Clearly he was regularly kept in check by the robotic companion.
"I think they're kind of both physical and metaphysical. Like...they keep the little robot form to have a face for the masses, but they use transmat a lot. That's transmatter warp. I think by your time it already pops up a lot in science fiction novelizations and shows. Basically they kind of poof themselves and other things in and out of existence on a whim, almost. They don't make it disappear, really...they just put it - or themselves - somewhere else. Break up into atomic particles or something, right?" he tries to explain, sitting up again and gesturing a ball shape with his hands breaking apart, then snapping back together.
"But when they're gone from the physical view, you can still hear them. They still talk to you or through electronics and such. We liken them to fictional ghosts for a lot of reasons, y'see? I suppose they could still possibly interact on a purely molecular level, thereby making them physical all the time, but there isn't any literature on that, so far as I know, and I read a lot," the Guardian reassures her, shaking his head slowly.
"I don't know if it's all spirits and faith or if there's a strictly scientific explanation. You'd think they'd know after so many centuries. What I can tell you is that Warlocks in particular, like myself, deal in some pretty abstract concepts and don't really hold much stock in absolutes. There are a lot of cults and religious groups still. If science explained everything, there wouldn't still be room for faith in my time, hm?"
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"I think they're kind of both physical and metaphysical. Like...they keep the little robot form to have a face for the masses, but they use transmat a lot. That's transmatter warp. I think by your time it already pops up a lot in science fiction novelizations and shows. Basically they kind of poof themselves and other things in and out of existence on a whim, almost. They don't make it disappear, really...they just put it - or themselves - somewhere else. Break up into atomic particles or something, right?" he tries to explain, sitting up again and gesturing a ball shape with his hands breaking apart, then snapping back together.
"But when they're gone from the physical view, you can still hear them. They still talk to you or through electronics and such. We liken them to fictional ghosts for a lot of reasons, y'see? I suppose they could still possibly interact on a purely molecular level, thereby making them physical all the time, but there isn't any literature on that, so far as I know, and I read a lot," the Guardian reassures her, shaking his head slowly.
"I don't know if it's all spirits and faith or if there's a strictly scientific explanation. You'd think they'd know after so many centuries. What I can tell you is that Warlocks in particular, like myself, deal in some pretty abstract concepts and don't really hold much stock in absolutes. There are a lot of cults and religious groups still. If science explained everything, there wouldn't still be room for faith in my time, hm?"