[Nevtalathiel]

Many of the advances that we have made in technology, certainly in the last 100 years have been based on a greater understanding of what it is that makes the world around us work. Radios, televisions, computers, medicines etc are all based on scientific principals and without our current understanding of physics, chemistry and biology, we would not be able to comprehend, let alone create them. If ME does not run on the same principles as our own universe (which it clearly does not), our technologies might not work on ME. Magic is a good example of this. Magic on ME works and everyone seems to accept this. Magic in our universe does not work and if I started to work magic, people would like for a scientific explanation. similarly, an internal combustion engine or gunpowder might not wotk on ME, because the universe does not operate in a way which would allow it to.