ThePonyTheorist 
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1. That is a good point. This could be a difference between the EqG and core MLP universes, as I don't believe that we have seen intangible magic outside of EqG. As far as hazmat suits etc go, it's entirely possible that pony-designed suits have some form of reading mechanism which allow them to mimic the spells carved on the inside of a unicorn's horn (place an eye and square rune in the horn region, with text demanding the appropriate effect if my theories hold).
Is magic impacted by wind, rain etc? There is nothing complete. As an indirect measure, Chrysalis never considered using teleportation to scale mount everhoof - which i'm sure would be within her capabilities, via transforming into a unicorn at the VERY least (and drawing out a rune at worst). Mount everhoof was protected specifically by magical winds - but this could have any number of answers.
I suppose it's possible that magic could obey conservation of energy/entropy if it reduced entropy in an area, and in return generated heat. And heavy use of magic IS known to generate large amounts of heat (just look at Twi blow over her horn during Pinkie Genocide), sooo...
2. If Discord's magic relies on maximizing the uncertainty principle, surely that would break upon attempted use by any other being? Their horns etc wouldn't function in the same way as his, and would try to 'analyze' the magic deeply, merely reducing its power instead of making it outright rebel against the user.
Babies having powerful magic spurts could be due to them having a lot of raw magic flowing into them from nature, their own magic-storage systems being leaky, and the usual emotional instability of infants.
I will say, I have never seen 'orderly' spells requiring sacrifices? There's only the banishing spell theoretically destroying the elements, but that could be due to over-use, akin to blowing a fuse from having too high of a voltage.
3. This does not disagree with my assertions, at least :)
4. I think of the runes in a unicorn horn as akin to an iguana's skin changing color. You have a spiral surface (or something akin to one) which generates IMMENSE surface area, and then neuronal input makes the 'horn cells' generate pigment on this gigantic canvas, in the exact pattern which a unicorn desires. This is highly complex, but feasible biologically. The runes change as they get better, since they are consciously altering them themselves. Magic draining works by sucking out the 'chemical' magic which reads and reacts to runes, and containing it elsewhere - no chemical magic to read it, and the runes are just pretty pictures which even we could draw.
5. The elements seem to be stores of raw energy, without too much complexity - but it isn't too hard to imagine that maybe some runes are on the interior side of the elements. Almost like a 'geode' (hi EqG)
6. As far as it being beyond suspension of disbelief - we have only ever seen magic from two sources. Biological, and rune-based. It is unlikely that the same force would respond to two vastly different systems, and biology is capable of generating large runes in a small space. Occam's razor.
7. To clarify my position. Magic itself is a chemical. That magic gets charged by close proximity to a being experiencing emotions, and then comes into physical contact (or close proximity) with a rune. The magic detects this rune, reads the overall structure, and uses the 'charge' it has gathered to fulfill the demand made of it, in an effort to reduce local entropy / reduce entropy in one region and generate heat elsewhere as a result / maximize some semblance of 'order'.
1. That is a good point. This could be a difference between the EqG and core MLP universes, as I don't believe that we have seen intangible magic outside of EqG. As far as hazmat suits etc go, it's entirely possible that pony-designed suits have some form of reading mechanism which allow them to mimic the spells carved on the inside of a unicorn's horn (place an eye and square rune in the horn region, with text demanding the appropriate effect if my theories hold).
Is magic impacted by wind, rain etc? There is nothing complete. As an indirect measure, Chrysalis never considered using teleportation to scale mount everhoof - which i'm sure would be within her capabilities, via transforming into a unicorn at the VERY least (and drawing out a rune at worst). Mount everhoof was protected specifically by magical winds - but this could have any number of answers.
I suppose it's possible that magic could obey conservation of energy/entropy if it reduced entropy in an area, and in return generated heat. And heavy use of magic IS known to generate large amounts of heat (just look at Twi blow over her horn during Pinkie Genocide), sooo...
2. If Discord's magic relies on maximizing the uncertainty principle, surely that would break upon attempted use by any other being? Their horns etc wouldn't function in the same way as his, and would try to 'analyze' the magic deeply, merely reducing its power instead of making it outright rebel against the user.
Babies having powerful magic spurts could be due to them having a lot of raw magic flowing into them from nature, their own magic-storage systems being leaky, and the usual emotional instability of infants.
I will say, I have never seen 'orderly' spells requiring sacrifices? There's only the banishing spell theoretically destroying the elements, but that could be due to over-use, akin to blowing a fuse from having too high of a voltage.
3. This does not disagree with my assertions, at least :)
4. I think of the runes in a unicorn horn as akin to an iguana's skin changing color. You have a spiral surface (or something akin to one) which generates IMMENSE surface area, and then neuronal input makes the 'horn cells' generate pigment on this gigantic canvas, in the exact pattern which a unicorn desires. This is highly complex, but feasible biologically. The runes change as they get better, since they are consciously altering them themselves. Magic draining works by sucking out the 'chemical' magic which reads and reacts to runes, and containing it elsewhere - no chemical magic to read it, and the runes are just pretty pictures which even we could draw.
5. The elements seem to be stores of raw energy, without too much complexity - but it isn't too hard to imagine that maybe some runes are on the interior side of the elements. Almost like a 'geode' (hi EqG)
6. As far as it being beyond suspension of disbelief - we have only ever seen magic from two sources. Biological, and rune-based. It is unlikely that the same force would respond to two vastly different systems, and biology is capable of generating large runes in a small space. Occam's razor.
7. To clarify my position. Magic itself is a chemical. That magic gets charged by close proximity to a being experiencing emotions, and then comes into physical contact (or close proximity) with a rune. The magic detects this rune, reads the overall structure, and uses the 'charge' it has gathered to fulfill the demand made of it, in an effort to reduce local entropy / reduce entropy in one region and generate heat elsewhere as a result / maximize some semblance of 'order'.