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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:03 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:18 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:10 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:37 pm
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Alchemy, as shown in FullMetal Alchemist (I know, it's going far in this thread.) is on the basis of "Equivalent Exchange," or in an explanatory way, "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost." It's supposed to show us that there is a balance to life and we just can't make things out of nowhere. Something has to be made with the basis of something else. In our world, it was a science that was created in the Middle ages to create gold out of common metals, like lead. But in order to create gold from something low like lead, you would need to find out the similar properties of each substance and try to convert it. This in fact succeeded, but no science can defy the laws of nature, so there was a downfall. And what was that? It didn't have that gold colour. At the result of their hard work, there was a failure. That is equivalent, in some sense. To be more accurate, there was a balance in the experiment. They gained knowledge, but also lost to Nature itself.. This is the birth of an early use of Chemistry. And, Chemistry has to do with chemical reactions (meaning the interaction of matter with one another.), aggregations (the bonding of matter), and conversions of matter (tramsforming one substance to a totally different one). In basic knowledge, it is the changing of matter of a substance (solids, liquids, gases, plasma) that we see in everyday lives. Sounds similar to Alchemy...?
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:06 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:23 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:07 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:51 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:27 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:16 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:59 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:30 pm
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 8:10 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:46 am
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