Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response

[Deliverance]

I doubt we'll find out that Spark-made stuff isn't based on real science. That seems contrary to the whole setting of Girl Genius. But the idea that there's some extra-dimensional thing that Sparks tap into for power sorta makes sense. Or, perhaps, the Breakthrough is an alteration to a person that enables them to glimpse insights from that other reality. A Second Breakthrough enables one to see more clearly and draw power directly from the extra-dimensional source.

Indeed, the whole setting of Girl Genius is based on the central conceit that magic exists and works in this world but is considered to be science. So it wouldn't make sense for the series to develop into a "our magic isn't real science anyway" direction.

After all, what is going on in the comic whenever a spark gets creative is only science by fiat of the authors - it certainly has nothing to do with the application of the scientific method*.


* with the possible exception of the circus' pie-baking spark's work.