A blog in July, posted by I, the musician analyzing the magician.

“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?”

If I were to ever meet this magician, despite his true ability to use magic, I would have to say that his impressiveness would be overshadowed by that of Einstein. Considering all of what Einstein has actually done for the scientific community and society as a whole, even some simple, yet actual, magic would fail in comparison to the wonder that is Einstein’s accomplished career. The most impressive thing, though barely so, on the side of the magician is that one could speculate that other magic exists besides this magician; magic that could be used to do things far beyond anything Einstein has done. This, however, doesn’t compare to Einstein because of the fact that it is merely speculation; the chance other magic being out there and the chance of us finding it if it is combined is so small that this fact can easily be deemed insignificant. Despite this, I still feel the need to emphasize the importance of what Einstein has done compared to what this magician can do.
Einstein’s achievements are numerous; ranging from discoveries about the speed of light to his famous formula relating mass and energy: E=mc2. His theories changed physics forever. He basically discarded the whole idea of physics up until his time, throwing everything about physics that everyone ever knew out the window. His ideas forever changed man’s basic understanding of the universe and the way it works. He also seems to have greatly influenced the way we think of light traveling: as particles instead of waves. He laid the path for what may be one of the most important branches of the present day: quantum physics. He had, in short, revolutionized all of science as we knew it in one lifetime, influencing the way physics has been taught for years to come, and setting the stone for tons of new discoveries about the way everything works, will work and has worked.
Now this magician has no “achievements” in which to compare to that of Einstein’s, so that is one sign, already, that he is not as impressive. The magician could, and I do repeat could, be useful in some ways. For example, it could be said that since there is one person on Earth that can do magic, there could be more; however, there is a flaw in this idea. There is the same chance that there are no other true performers of magic in the world so he could also be totally useless in this sense. The good thing about having real magic in general is that it could be used to improve all sorts of things in the world like curing diseases, getting rid of trash, hunger, and other nuisances. Since this magician is so closed minded, he will not do these things, or exert the effort necessary to do so. Then we would need to rely on other magicians that may not even exist. This definitely takes away from how impressive this magician is.
Compared to Einstein’s numerous achievements, this magician’s possible one achievement seems nominal, presenting absolutely no amount of impressiveness on any level. Even with his amazing magic tricks, after seeing the same five over and over again, anything impressive about them would be lost in boredom caused by repetitiveness. Einstein’s overall transformation of physics continues to amaze anyone who has ever studied him, proving far more impressive than anything this magician can do. Also, the magician is doing tricks that many can do without real magic. Even though others who do these are not authentically doing it, it still seems almost as convincing as real magic. This basically takes away any little drop of impressive left in anyone’s view of this magician.
In conclusion, the magician’s narrow-mindedness seems to be his downfall while Einstein’s open-minded view on the universe and how it works has impressed us for ages. In the question of who is more impressive, Einstein wins by a long shot. This magician just lacks the ability to do something that could actually be deemed impressive by most people. He lacks what Einstein had that not only influenced millions of people, but also the mind to think beyond his limit. He would impress me if and only if he could achieve this feat, alas he will not. Therefore, My answer is still Einstein.


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