Murphy handed the smelting techniques for Goblin Metal over to the Magic Research Institute.
Recently, they had been studying a problem that had plagued the institute for a long time: the compatibility between magic power and technological products.
As everyone knew, overly active magic-rich environments caused precise technological creations to malfunction. Murphy had felt this deeply back at Hogwarts, and it would be a tremendous obstacle on his path toward combining science and magic.
If science and The Essence of Magic fundamentally conflicted, then what the hell was there to talk about when it came to combining science and magic?
Fortunately, after the initial research, the scientists had ruled out the possibility of a "conceptual conflict" between the two. The failure of technology in magic-rich environments was most likely caused by magic power fluctuations interfering with precise electronic devices.
Hordan believed that the essence of this conflict was magic power's "possibility-expanding effect," which made electronic devices unstable. Designs that should not leak electricity became capable of leaking it, components that should conduct electricity became insulated, and so on. The more precise the electronic device, the more easily such disturbances occurred.
Take chips, for example. After more than a year of development, the smallest process made by the Umbrella Corporation had reached 0.1 microns. A single field-effect transistor was so small it could only be seen through a microscope. Changing the switching state of such a tiny circuit was far easier than changing that of an ordinary macroscopic circuit.
This was an inevitable result under the Probability Payment Hypothesis of magic power.
As for how to keep precise technological products—such as chips—operating stably in a magic-power environment, the scientists had proposed two solutions.
The first was a magic-power isolation solution. The scientists supporting this approach believed that a magic-power insulating material