The Magic Academy’s Physicist

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In an era when the power of Fire Magic was considered to have reached its limit, one girl began researching nuclear fusion.

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마도 아카데미의 물리학자
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I never coul
Jul 29, 2024
Status: c6
I would recommend anyone with basic scientific knowledge to shy away from this novel. The egregious errors makes it utterly infuriating to read.

The author inserts random technical jargon to impress his uneducated readers. God, it makes me so angry. At least stick to normal units and read the Wikipedia articles before writing!

For example,

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The author describes the transistor as an Free Energy Generator! The presence of which can amplify the power of magic 10, 000 times! (In reality, the transistor operates as a simple switch, and cannot amplify the magnitude of a voltage beyond the voltage with which it is supplied)

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The author also likes to use units that he doesn't understand.

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He used the millisievert to measure the Light Arrow spell's power, saying that ~20 millisieverts can defeat a large animatronic drake. First, the sievert is (roughly) a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation, and is not a measurement of power/energy. Second, 20 millisieverts can do f*ck all. You need 3, 000-5, 000 millisieverts to kill a human, slowly, after a few weeks. Third, Ionizing radiation would do little to nothing against machines, as they are not made of flesh and blood.

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I rest my case. If you don't know / care about physical phenomenons, this doesn't seem to be a bad read. If you, however, like me, hoped that this novel will integrate real science with magic, you will surely be disappointment.

Other golden quotes include:

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"When two waves of the same phase met, the intensity grew exponentially" (factually wrong, as waves sum their intensities. That is, when waves a and b undergo additive interference, their intensity is a + b, not a * b.)

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JackSparrowingNovels
JackSparrowi
Apr 17, 2024
Status: c10
I registered an account just for the misunderstandings about this novel and the false review above. This novel REALLY has potential.

The novel is about an academic/researcher which is asked to peer review a paper (academic paper, not novel) about the science of magic. Ofc MC says its unscientific nonsense. Afterwards a golden eyed girl comes to her/him and the MC gets thrown into another world as that golden eyed girl named Aether. And bad news? Bad news is that Aether is a real sl*ve. (This isnt a genderbender novel... more>> btw, dont believe the tags, bec we dont know the researcher's gender in real world.)

I liked the worldbuilding at first, a world that is between ww1 to ww2 era with magic and science. Yes magic isnt just saying ✨️magic✨️ and be done with it, most novels expect you to not question the magic unlike this one. ✨️magic✨️ why? Dont ask. Lmao. Anyway, back to the topic. In this novel magic still follows rules and science albeit fictionally ofc. And bec rules are scientific, Aether has a great advantage as a person who knows modern science. This type of realistic magic is the best worldbuilding in my opinion. Let alone the unique timeline of that world.

But then came the cliches. Demon lord bla bla [insert cliche world building], rescuing some youngsters by running into them bla bla [insert cliche character introduction]. Thankfully it looks like mild cliches. Also its just recently mentioned and we are at the start of the novel, so I cant say whatever it will be reaaaaly cliche or not. Tho I have high hopes for this novel.

For the characters, its still early, most characters have no defining characteristics bec well... 10 chapter is too short to actually build characters. The only characters that are more than just names are the MC and the owner of the MC. Aether is a Golden-eyed which means she cant use magic naturally and had to rely on scrolls and similar tools. But her race is rare, beautiful and rumored to be genius etc. Her personality becomes jaded, exhausted and just burnout from her new life. She just want to return to Earth and to do that she work hard to learn and research magic and combine it with science. Basicly an academic sl*ave both figuratively 🤣 and literally.

But the owner of her. Real problems start with her. She is someone who can do anything to improve her Fire Magic. She doesnt even care about her status as Duchess and just want to get better at fire magic. She desperately needs a breakthrough in that magic field and see that breakthrough in Aether. So she buys Aether and overworks her to the bone. She always give harder and harder tasks related to magic to Aether. Everything is great until this point. An evil that isnt for the sake of evil. She has her own motives and agendas. BUT, this supposedly rational woman is in fact isnt rational. She gives menial labors and chores to Aether, doesnt give her enough food etc. Why are you using an invaluable sl*ve in such a cheap way? Why dont you buy another cheap one to do these chores? Why dont you give food to Aether so can use her brain more? Why? Why?! Dont ask. Its just a cheap tactic to make the MC's personality artificially.

Another problem arises⬇️
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after a womanizer prince saw Aether's goddess-like beauty. He ask the king to send a letter to the Duchess to buy Aether from her. And Duchess decides to accept it. Why? Sure enough money is always a good reason and you can use that money for research but why are you selling the golden goose? Thats such an irrational choice. At least consider the possibility of buying back Aether after a few days when that womanizer got bored of bedding her. It may or may not occur but at least consider the chance. Or just make a counteroffer to rent or gift Aether for a few dozen nights instead of selling. Why arent you rationale anymore? Why? Why?! I tell you why, this is another cheap way, progressing the plot artifically.

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All in all it has great potential. Although author may ruin it, and makes some mistakes, they arent massive mistakes, I still believe in author. I still beleive it has great potential. Tho mistakes make it 4/5, I will still give it 5/5. <<less
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Gwim
Gwim
Aug 10, 2024
Status: c62
It's an interesting story with well written characters. Good no-nonsense protagonist and decent supporting cast. Villains generally get their comeuppance and where it makes sense to - actually stop being s*upid which is rare. There's a transmigrator that thinks MC is someone else sort of and will cause the end of the world so there's some funny misunderstandings there.

Anyways imagine being butthurt that the magic system is unrealistic.
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XXXXX
Dec 02, 2024
Status: c20
If you know some physics or what this is already kinda immersion breaking nonsense science but I kept reading anyways....

The MC taking hit after hit without fighting back is not nice to read about

Already mastered several "Ultimate magics?" and still voluntarily staying as a weak ab*sed s*ave

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Allegedly to "get back to his own world faster" with the ultimate goal of mastering ALL magic to achieve this via system deus ex machina

But there is just so much wrong here... Staying as a s*ave only getting 1 meal a day worked to the bone is not efficient in any way even short term, never mind the long term...

A physics graduate/researcher? who doesn't even know about long term memory formation? proper work rest schedule?

Surely such a person would realize that all nighters can't be done consistently without proper rest, and just makes your learning ability plummet... and again with 1 daily (if lucky 2) meals of unnourishing sh*t food... and she's been a s*ave for 3 years by the time the story actually starts

The only "win" that has happened in 20 chapters of just straight up meaningless suffering was relying on several coincidences lining up perfectly and a random strangers kindness

That is then topped off with a ridiculously s*upid oversight by the MC of leaving her "school application papers" (which if she passes means she'd no longer be a s*ave) out in the open, so her owner can find it in her shed and cause shitty drama, instead of just... idk, hiding it under her bed or something? just wait a few days more and it would no longer matter, but DRAMA!!!

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MC on top of being socially stunted and mentally slow is also magically handicapped and can't use magic without smoking grass or using premade magic scrolls made while she's smoking grass, just for the extra oomph of being looked down on I guess? maybe some plot reason? idk, too much angst and bs for me to keep reading

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LeanVolcano
LeanVolcano
Nov 12, 2024
Status: c10
I was excited bc I am a physics major but the s*upid wave shiet and incorrect use of technical terms kinda killed it for me. It shows a lack of care regarding how to properly portray the power system, one that the author themselves is designing. It just falls back on magic voodoo science words in hopes that the readers are too s*upid to notice or just don’t care. It feels like the Ant Man comics, where they just throw “Qantum” in front of everything and then it magically works.... more>> Otherwise it’s solid, a sorta generic power fantasy, weak to strong, gender bender. Nothing super bad but nothing overtly special.

For anyone interested in the single thing that bothered me the most:

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transistors do not amplify anything but, they are used in amplification circuits bc you can use a small voltage to switch/control a high current. If you view that as “amplifying” the small voltage you used to switch the transistor it could be called an amplifier but otherwise, it’s really just a simple way to use a smaller, safer voltage to control something bigger and more dangerous. This misunderstanding that a transistor can magically wham bam ka-pow something into being 10 bajillion times stronger drives me up the wall but there are a lot of other things that feel like I’m loosing brain cells by reading

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YCompris
YCompris
Aug 26, 2024
Status: c72
It's entertaining and has potential, but is a little generic for now. There are also aspects to some characters and situations that don't feel very good to me, but this depends on the person reading, I guess. I hope the author has pushed this in a good direction, despite it being his first work.

I'll add on to somebodi's review by saying that the third thing is a mistranslation - the word used in the raws is "뻥튀기", which supposedly means something along the lines of 'inflate' or 'exaggerate in a... more>> dramatic way.' So, the sentence should be: "When two waves with the same phase meet, the intensity grows significantly." and 'exponentially' was just the way the translator phrased the significance.

Also, amplitude adds together while intensity is proportional to the square of the amplitude, so the other guy isn't even right in his complaints (and a*b isn't exponential, either), which is really infuriating - why are you writing a review and tr*sh talking the author for his lack of knowledge when you yourself are completely incompetent on the topic? I won't comment on the first point since I'm not a physicist either, but it is said in the novel that it doesn't just generate power out of nowhere. <<less
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somebodi
somebodi
Aug 19, 2024
Status: c1
Just to clear up the confusion by "I never could make good usernames, " I don't think the physics is that bad. So far most inconsistencies can be explained by magic appropriation.

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    transistors in analog computers can amplify current. It's the basis of analog computing, and also the first line in wikipedia. It also only acts as a power up, more energy is still needed. My guess is that traditional methods of increasing power were horribly inefficient.

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    bibbity boppity, your units are now my property

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    Yeah no clue what they're on about. Hopefully this is a translation error where the implication of stacking waves like jenga was lost or something.

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MyRAMEN
MyRAMEN
Jun 19, 2024
Status: c38
Surprised the overall rating is below a 4.0. I suspect this maybe due to the paywall for recent chaps or a past translator who botched it. But overall it is pretty possitive. But there are still a few negatives that bogged down the story from being amazing.

She is a former graduate student of physics who excelled, then she got transmigrated into a s*ave girl who basically needed to prove her worth to a renowned professor to not be sold as a pleasure s*ave. She is now back to her graduate... more>> student days but with less freedom and stricter work.
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After finding out the professor plans to sell her to the pe*verted prince for research funds, which went against her promise of not selling her as long as she works properly, she works with the professor's friend who recognized her talent to get enrolled in the acsdemt to get status immunity (freedom).

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As someone who knows little to no advanced math/science, when formula info and discussions pop it is mostly filler for me with no way to check if it's right or understand the related concepts, so for a vast majority of readers it will just be "oh that's cool" + filler on these sections. But the science in this novel was actually pretty cool and interesting, usually with these novels it is complete utter garbage.

Luckily there is no romance, well true romance in the novel. Other than an annoying pe*verted prince character, there is no romance in the story at all, so you won't be bogged down by this. The MC in original world Earth was also male, but honestly to me this just seems to be an excuse to have no romance and have a harem of female characters without it being a harem. As a majority of the important characters MC has constant engagement with are female.

Some of the characters in this novel have depth. Very interesting characters with some development, while others like the prince and her former professor master are pretty flat, predictable, and 2d. As close minded characters with little to no development scene at all.
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The professor after losing her s*ave and realizing her importance... still pursues her as a s*ave tied to her and trying to coax her with payment (carrot) after the stick strategy failed. Though she is getting "open minded" the author is setting her as a very stubborn character due to thr noble status so there wasnt actually the development of such. The prince rightfully deserves to bring down the rating a full star just for existing and filling up the story content. We do find he is brainwashed but even with people finding out the characters have minimal reactions other than basically: "Oh I guess the empire is screwed".

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There are many parts which drawer me into the novel. The interesting world setting, the protagonist, the unique mana mechanics. Especially with the mana grass which you smoke for more mana, which is also required for the MC who has no natural mana as a golden eyed species.

Yet there are many other parts which get less descriptions and explanations. There is also very soft plot armor of progression to prevent characters from going towards a smarter pathway, but to instead usually insist on status quo. There is also sudden genre shifts such as the novel suddenly becoming part science fiction, then also part
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game reincarnation sub genre. (A character who played a dating (?) game got reincarnated into the world

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Snooty
Snooty
Sep 03, 2024
Status: c76
This novel is one of those great ideas, mediocre execution.

I actually really enjoyed the story, but a lot of it felt like the Skeletor meme where the MC goes "science, theorems, random bullshit, go!"

There are a couple twists that made this story really interesting, but at the same time they feel kind of forced. Most issues could have been easily resolved if it wasn't for a 'system' that made it a lot more difficult than it should have been.
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Flobot
Flobot
Jun 29, 2024
Status: c260
It is a gender bender (it's not important in the story though, in fact you would never know MC was a man if there weren't a few cringe jokes/tropes).

Some concepts are done poorly, some are done well. Klais' character's role (Aether's owner) serves more than as a common evil lady trope and could be seen as the
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catalyst for the world's destruction.

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She's a really important character, and serves a far greater role than just a means for Aether to enter the academy.

I am horrible about reviews, but I agree with most of the reviews it's worth a read.
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s3978871
s3978871
Apr 15, 2024
Status: c9
This novel tells the story of Aether, a graduate student who unfortunately got reincarnated into a novel script after they had given a bad review. It's not those "I know everything so I shall exploit everything" type situations because they didn't even finish reading the title of the novel before giving it a review.

Anyways, they suddenly went from graduate student status (which is overworked but still held some status and dignity) to official s*ave overnight. They were purchased by a rich lady and then the author really went overkill on... more>> how this rich lady continuously exploited her s*ave over the past 3 years. But then they went on and added some stuff that just really did not make sense

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Basically this rich lady is a powerful mage with a duke title, she graduated top of her class blah blah but the battlefield took her friend's lives, limbs and eyes blah blah that really wounded her heart and now she's researching to make new magic to make a world a better place blah blah in her eyes status doesn't matter even though she's a Duke blah blah

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And then she bought a s*ave (our protag right here). Apparently status doesn't matter if the person is not a person at all, she treats our protagonist like cattle and although the author explained in later chapters that this rich lady cherished our protag, the orders she dished out really show the opposite of what's in her mind. To me, she just wants our protag to just die already.

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And also, this rich lady (although the author said she favours her but hadn't realised) decided to let the 2nd prince of the country, known for banging servants and commoners left and right and then throwing them out like tr*sh, have a go at Aether for money. Yup, I'm fully convinced that this lady doesn't see status, she sees everyone around her as cattle.

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Luckily the protagonist is smart, and with the opportunity provided by another professor, she gets a chance to study at the academy and potentially escape her s*ave status.

All in all it's a 4-star. It's not a 5-star because of that 1 specific character I hate, the author seems to be setting her up for redemption but if the set-up itself is half-assed then the redemption will be half-assed too. I wished the author could've made her a complete villain, and then the redemption arc instead of creating sympathy for the character so early in the novel. It's a shame but it's still a good novel. Definitely recommended. <<less
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