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- The scientific esper powers developed by Academy City had their base in quantum theory.
- In quantum theory, the world was thought about at an exceedingly small level and it was
- a strange field in which Newtonian mechanics such as an apple falling to the earth when
- you let it go did not apply.
- The object was definitely there, but it went somewhere else when observed by someone.
- An object in a box could only be expressed in possibility or probability. It was not said to
- be there or said to be not there. It could only be said to seventy percent exist.
- If you thought about it in the terms of the normal world of science such as in terms of
- drink cans or oranges, the ideas of quantum theory made no sense whatsoever. However,
- if you controlled the microscopic world with the observer of a human mind, the
- macroscopic world (that is, what could be seen with the naked eye) could be controlled.
- That was what Academy City’s esper powers were.
- However, there was another theory that was the counter to the microscopic quantum
- theory.
- Holism.
- In that theory, the entire expanding universe was treated as a single large system or
- network and things were viewed at the largest scale that humans could manage.
- This once branched off to Gaia Theory which viewed the entire Earth as a single
- environment or ecosystem, but the life forms on the Earth were also affected by solar
- winds and the gravitational pull of the moon. If you also added in the time axis and other
- dimensions to that large ‘world’, you were no longer dealing with just a single planet. In
- that way, many had gone back to the origins of the theory and talking in true wholes once
- more.
- Gremlin had used Baggage City as a giant testing ground to complete the foundational
- theory behind esper powers that used that holism.
- The theory itself was simple.
- It was the opposite of the butterfly effect that said the beating of a butterfly’s wings could
- cause storms.
- In other words, a major change on the global scale could cause flames to come from your
- palm.
- Just saying that the large affected the small may make it a little hard to understand.
- However, we are constantly undergoing changes caused by large things.
- For example, take the theory of relativity.
- Setting aside the precise definition, let us focus on the part that says the flow of time slows
- the closer an object gets to the speed of light.
- A human riding in a car and a human riding in an airplane are in different ‘times’ that
- would cause a slight immeasurable error.
- So let us make the scale larger.
- What about a human on Earth versus a human on the moon? What about a human on the
- moon versus a human on Mars? Due to rotation and revolution, those people would be
- within different speeds and therefore different times.
- Now let us bring the scale up to the whole.
- The universe was created in the Big Bang and is constantly expanding moment by
- moment. Of course, we of humanity live in the universe and are all moving at the speed
- of that expansion. This puts us in the relativistic time created by the Big Bang.
- Now, let us go through a thought experiment.
- The universe is expanding equally in every direction, but what if the expansion speed of a
- single local area changed?
- The change in speed would create a change in time.
- An exceedingly large phenomenon would change the concept of time for a tiny human.
- Of course, that is merely an example.
- However, if you could bend or ball up the entire universe, the side effect of that power
- would cause an exceedingly microscopic phenomenon that would be immeasurable even
- with an electron microscope.
- Does it seem like a rather roundabout method?
- Do you think that if someone had power great enough to alter the expansion speed of the
- universe, they should just use that power to directly crush the planet or the galaxy?
- However, a holistic esper would only notice the flames coming from their palm. Even if
- some distant galaxy was crushed in the process, that would be all they could comprehend.
- Just like how a person in a car cannot notice that someone standing on the Earth is in a
- different time.
- As such, an esper created from the whole might only reach a Level 2 or 3 on Academy
- City’s scale. Even if some truly ridiculous thing was occurring in reality, no one would
- notice it, so it might as well not have been happening. Ironically, this was the same as the
- concept of zero in quantum theory.
- What Gremlin had been doing was the first step toward that.
- Before actually creating a holistic esper, they were carrying out an experiment to see if a
- small supernatural phenomenon would occur when the world was greatly distorted.
- That’s right.
- The tournament in Baggage City, the clash between Kihara and Gremlin, and the war
- between science and magic. Each of those movements was nothing more than an
- experiment to see if the exceedingly large scale battles would cause exceedingly
- microscopic changes.
- For Gremlin, the ‘punishment’ sent by Academy City was just another part of their plan.
- Kihara Kagun was from Academy City and had been a central part of their darkness. He
- had secretly intercepted the scope of the unit sent in by Academy City. With that
- knowledge, he had carried out final adjustments to give Gremlin the advantage.
- That scenario had been hidden even from Gremlin. If they had known the scenario
- beforehand, they could not achieve the same results.
- It was all an experiment to develop esper powers from the result of the battles.
- If they succeeded, it would not only be the most powerful, it would be a brand new system
- of powers.
- The type of experiment was the same as what the #1 had once gone through. Since that
- was the result he had eventually come up with, Kihara Kagun may have never truly
- escaped the curse of the science of Academy City’s dark side no matter how much he hated
- it.
- (But then, when he found out Kihara Byouri would be part of the strategy, he took
- advantage of the fact that he could not tell anyone else the scenario and made a major
- change to the plan at the last second.)
- If the small phenomenon caused by the major distortion was detected, they would finally
- alter a hopeful candidate’s brain to develop an actual holistic esper.
- So what was the result?
- The result was clear.
- Since Kamijou Touma’s right hand had negated something, something needing to be
- negated must have been there.
- Let us take Kamijou and the other’s proper ‘present’ as 0 and the ‘future’ created by the
- holistic experiment as 1.
- Gremlin surely thought they were controlling a holistic experiment. Until partway
- through, that was true. Gremlin’s major preparations in Baggage City had indeed created
- a result in their experiment to show that a distortion that should not exist leads to esper
- powers.
- However, when the small distortion had appeared, Gremlin and Baggage City which were
- in the ‘present’ had begun to be forcibly drawn in by the holistic result in the ‘future’. It
- was like scientists losing control of the black hole they had created.
- And so things became distorted.
- If the ‘present’ was 0 and the ‘future’ was 1, then, until Kamijou had arrived, Baggage City
- (which should have been a 0) had been drawn in and the time and space had been
- distorted toward the future making it a 0.5 or a 0.7.
- That was why something had been off about the place in which Kihara and Gremlin
- clashed despite the fact that it should have been Baggage City.
- The normal laws did not apply and they began to be bound by some strange laws that
- made tragedies occur much more easily.
- At the same time, what did it mean that that distortion had been destroyed by the power
- of that right hand?
- The answer was simple.
- The cold laws that had taken effect no longer applied.
- Even if the tragedies that had occurred could not be repaired and even if those that had
- died could not be brought back to life...
- Kamijou Touma’s right hand would do the conquering now.
- -Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 4 Connection Process
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