What Makes a Great Magic System?

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by johndallman

There is an emerging field called "chemical physics" which seems to be about doing just that. A friend's daughter is taking her undergraduate degree in it, so it isn't that specialised. There's a lot about electron shells.

I came across the term physical chemist, or possibly chemical physicist, in a very old Asimov short story. The some kind of mixing of the two has been going on for a very long time.

It's also worth noting that most laypeople would assume MacGyver to had studied chemistry, because of all the times he mixes stuff to make it blow up, when in fact he earned his degree (presumably a BS) in physics.