As long as there is a directional effect, and something morally akin to what a triode valve and a transistor do amplifying signals, it's not magic. But does it look like magic when it's quantum effects? Hell yea.
What beats me is the same thing in pentode+ valves and modern day transformers/gates -reuse of the same elements of the physical structure for different purposes at the same time.
MEMS. Now that's magic. You're down in the space where van der waals is bigger than other forces, and you can make gears and levers work.
Fibre optics is pretty magical. The modern day fibre bundle is doing very odd boundary effects on lots of signals in one complex structure.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 16.8 ms ] threadWhat beats me is the same thing in pentode+ valves and modern day transformers/gates -reuse of the same elements of the physical structure for different purposes at the same time.
MEMS. Now that's magic. You're down in the space where van der waals is bigger than other forces, and you can make gears and levers work.
Fibre optics is pretty magical. The modern day fibre bundle is doing very odd boundary effects on lots of signals in one complex structure.