Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24516349-20140208174350/@comment-11571396-20140208201656

Selfes wrote: Probably Science, because I like logical things... That's actually funny (don't worry Selfes, this post is not directed against you or your choice), because if we think about it, the Espers are magic-users. They may believe it's Science, but the stuff they Hax is utterly beyond mere physics. This is in a city set up and run by a Wizard, and it shows.

Here's my thinking. Despite the Sides' names, the Magic side uses detailed, documented, and proved methods to get specific results (if with magic) and magic itself is well understood, has many explanations and theories, etc.

The Science side, by contrast, is full of dozens of unrepeatable miracles.

Something as scientific and studiable and repeatable as To Aru magic ended up in a war, on the irrational miracle side of the argument, with the rational scientific mindset... when the Science Side is the one producing unrepeatable miracles.

I don't know if it's ironic, but To Aru's ' 'Science' ' has been sufficiently analyzed to make it look like science but any connection to real world physics or logic is purely coincidental.