My take on this is that it’s just an illustration that wizards really don’t understand science, and they’ll be unsuccessful at implementing their anti-physics charm.
Who knows, free Transfiguration works but seems to conserve mass, broomsticks work, but have effects similar to the standard reactionless drive+inertial dampener (and you can make a “reactionless” drive if you can shake masses about fast enough in curved spacetime paper)
My take on this is that it’s just an illustration that wizards really don’t understand science, and they’ll be unsuccessful at implementing their anti-physics charm.
Who knows, free Transfiguration works but seems to conserve mass, broomsticks work, but have effects similar to the standard reactionless drive+inertial dampener (and you can make a “reactionless” drive if you can shake masses about fast enough in curved spacetime paper)