User:Jaster

There exist a field of energy that spans the universe, called "Quintessence". It surrounds and penetrates all things. It is this elusive field of energy that is the basis of magic. Quintessence is made up of magion "particles" - subatomic, high energy, fluctuations in the quantum state of the space-time continuum. Magion particles exist throughout the universe as "background" radiation. Even in the deepest void of space, one can find magion particles. Due to the unique nature of magion particles (fluctuations in the quantum state), they affect both matter and energy. Magions have the ability to change all the physical properties of any other particles they happen to interact with, including other magions. They can change among other things mass, inertia, electrical charge, space-time coordinates, and can even convert magions into matter and vice versa. Magion particles are not true particles, but do possess mass. Magions also exhibit the wave motion properties of electromagnetic radiation. Hence, they travel through most matter at light speed, while still interacting with matter on an atomic level.

All living creatures generate bio-neural energy within their nervous systems. This energy is concentrated in nerve fibers fibers throughout the body and the spinal column, but is especially strong in the synaptic neurons of the brain. The more highly developed the brain, the stronger the bio-neural energy generated. Some simple life forms do not have true brains, only nerve clusters. These creatures generate very little bio-neural energy. Humans, however, have very complex and highly evolved brains. They are capable of abstraction, imagination and language. Hence, they have the strongest bio-neural energy.

In a similar fashion to the way mass distorts the space-time continuum to bend the fabric of reality and produce gravity, the bio-neural energy of living organisms distorts the universal magion field. The presence of bio-neural energy, that which is generated in the nervous system of a biological entity, causes an increase in density in the magion field.

The trait of the magical ability is purely a genetic difference that enables witches and wizards to exert a certain amount of control over magion particles. Not only do they have stronger bio-neural energy, but as living creatures that use imagination and structured thought patterns they are able to affect the unified field. The process occurres during the interaction between bio-neural energy and magion particles. The bio-neural energy is minutely different in frequency from Muggles and squibs. This is because the genetic trait of magic-using directs the body to produce certain enzymes and proteins that interact with the energetic processes of the nervous system.

In the bio-neural energy/magion interactions, the bio-neural energy can alter the wavelength and frequency of magion wave properties. Because of the specific frequency witch and wizard bio-neural energy can also alter the density, quantum oscillation, phase and other properties of magion particles. By influencing magion particles, they can be directed, used to generate and manipulate energy, matter, gravity, spatial anomalies, universal states of nature and other phenomena. These are the fundamental building blocks of what is called magic.

Almost all magic is done with the use of a supporting tool, typically a wand. By using a wand one's magical powers are greatly focused. Furthermore, most actual spell casting is done by using short incantations (most often in what sounds like a modified form of Latin) accompanied by gestures. This is because certain words and gestures act as "psychological triggers" to alter the perceptions of the mind, allowing one to manipulate magion particles to override the usual laws of nature. Accomplished wizards and witches can sometimes perform magic, especially simple magic, without the need for an incantation.

Regardless of how powerful a witch or wizard is, he or she is by no means without limits. For instance, while it is possible to conjure things out of thin air it's far more tricky to create something that fits an exact specification rather than a general one - moreover any objects so conjured tend not to last.