Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24516349-20140208174350/@comment-2602:30A:C7EA:CE10:B543:7662:A4CD:1D42-20180104204926

KingWizard wrote: 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. I would just like to point out in the real world, Magic is a form of Quantum Physics (although it predates Physics) if you observe what it entails, just it's not Science, because, though it can be observed, it can't be measured & for it to be science it must:

1. be measurable: which magic can't be YET

2. be repeatable: it is 

3. be observable: yes again.

So if Index/Railgun/Accelerator follows this, then it could explain the similarities & Alchemy is just Magic+Chemistry, although it predates Chemistry. I would also like to point out that esper powers come from the power of the mind through AIM waves produced by the mind, in my theory about how only rare living things can do it, like a mutation if the mind to be more advanced, like how the AIM waves are probably a form of Electromagnetic Waves like light being converted into other things by the electricity in the Brain, while Magic come from using Mana, life energy & the power of the Soul, to manipulate the world around the user. Basically Magic & Esper powers go different ways to achieve the same thing, One's power of the Mind, the other the Soul.

So it's not Magic vs Science, but Mind vs Soul the reason people can't be both is because they put a strain on the Body the host of both, the AIM is Permanently active, but Mana must be used to strain the Body, the Body probably can't handle the strain for an ordinary human Body

P.S. I wonder if there's an 3rd group of Martial Artists & Body Builders abut the power of the Body

I'm team Imagine Breaker F.Y.I.