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No, there's no magic involved. No more than there is in having the lights come on when you turn on the light switch. For most people, "and the light magically comes on" does in fact sum up pretty well their understanding of how it all works. They know there's this stuff called electricity, and when you flip the switch it opens something and lets that stuff flow to the light bulb and it glows, but they've no real grasp of what's involved in generating power, nor in getting it from the power plant to their home, nor in the actual processes that make the light bulb glow. It might as well be magic, that'd still be on roughly the same level of understanding of what's actually going on. But that doesn't mean electricity and lights are magic, it just means most people aren't electricians.

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