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"The ultimate fundamental particle of magic," announced my cat late one afternoon, "is the 'foo', by definition there can be nothing smaller."
"Or bigger," grinned my other cat.
"You can't both be right," I replied.
"Of course we're not," said my cat, "one of us is always wrong, but it provides you with a starting point and a choice of two directions.
For a moment I thought about the numbers. "True," I accepted, "but that only holds until you consider the count zero effect. Which allows for a third choice."
"No," asserted my cat, "it doesn't."
"Yes," I asserted, "it does. It's a field effect. The nature of the not foo. The substrate so to speak."
"That's anti-magic," said my cat.
"Nope," I replied, "it's null-space. Or void-space. You choose."
"Bugger," said my other cat, "he's trapped in the box with us."
"In which case," asked my cat, "is there an outside observer, and are they alive or dead."
"You're ready," said the other voice in my mind.
"We choose nothing smaller," said my cat.
"And the void," said my other cat.
"Then we are agreed," said I.
"Magic," said my other voice.