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

Let me just leave you with this: Arthur C. Clarke once said (as quoted by sorairo) "any sufficiently adavanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Apparently Clarke didn't understand the concept of magic, though. It doesn't matter how adavanced technology gets, it's technology and therefore a science and therefore can be explained. Magic cannot be explained, that's why it's magic. Now, I'm going to wait for further episodes, as you guys say to do, but until somebody in RWBY explicitly says "Dust is x, y and z" I'm just going to assume it's magic.

Because, again, there's no reason to not call it that.