User blog comment:TheNewProtagonist/Dust is actually kinda dumb./@comment-13616152-20130813182416/@comment-4773581-20130813223207

So when nanobots let us shoot fireballs, turn stone into diamonds, and create matter from oxygen, that's not going to be indistinguishable from magic? Because it seems pretty magical to me.

Moreover, magic can, in fact, be explained. Most writers simply don't explain it because they either don't want to make a science out of magic or are writing a medieval/ish or fantasy work, and in such places the explanations on magic would probably be lacking. Ken Akamatsu and the magic from his series Negima is a good example of how magic can be explained, as he sometimes goes into great detail on how a spell or artifact works at the end of a book.

Just as any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science. Evidently you simply choose to ignore works where they do go into analyzing magic.