Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5647122-20140728064651/@comment-79.178.30.171-20141004115945

This is what I understood about how Esper powers work after hearing about quantum physics and matching it with Tsukuyomi's weird explanation with the box of chocolates.

Basically, at a given situation, one cannot know both the location and vector of a fundemental particle. Quantum physics can only statistically calculate where a particle is going to be the next moment after the "captured" moment (like, when you push a toy car there's almost a 100% that it will move forward, yet there is also however an EXTREMELY slim chance that it will suddenly move backward) and thus correctly "guess" what the result is going to be.

What an esper's "personal reality" does is allow for those extremely improbable results to take place one after the other, creating an ultimately "miraculous result". For example, it would take a very long sequence of improbable events at the microscopic level to make something spontaneously combust, thus making the chances of that happening almost 0%, but a pyrokinetic esper's personal reality somehow makes the chances of that happening practically 100% at their will, allowing them to "summon fire".