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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3688261" data-attributes="member: 4936">Genesis is...impatient. She has the potential for invention, but her ability to create stuff means she rarely takes the time and effort to build things -for real-. Her skills are mainly for use in comprehending things found, and perhaps in justifying complex creations.In short, she depends on her powers for the most part. She's only an 'inventor' in the most technical of senses. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh, I'm gonna add this to her sheet too, but since I'm posting, and you expressed interests in the story and explanation of character powers...[sblock=The Origin And Function of Genesis]The Butterfly Effect. It specifically refers to a model of weather that illustrates chaos theory, but the moral of the story is what's relevant here. Sometimes very small perturbations can have very large effects. In the case of Alexandra Davies, 'very small' means about as small as you can get. The quantum universe.In the quantum universe lots of rules we take for granted are turned upside down. For example, we know that matter and energy can't be created, nor destroyed. But that's not true here. Matter and energy are -routinely- created, AND destroyed. The catch is that you can't create matter or energy WITHOUT then destroying them...and on scales of size and time that are not only unknowable to human senses, but are so minuscule that the very universe itself seems not to really 'care' about them. Nevertheless, this constant flux of creation and annihilation forms the basis of measurable effects. The Casimir force, or so-called 'vacuum pressure.' The evaporation of singularities. And the remarkable abilities of one female human being (mutant? psychic? who knows?) to assemble unliving matter from what appears to be nothingness, by an act of will.What she does is not hard to explain. How she does it defies all theories of physics to explain. When she creates an object there is a massive asymmetric, localized increase in vacuum energy level, culminating in a spontaneous manifestation of whatever it is that she was trying to create. What this means is that the area of space that is to contain the new object suddenly experiences an enormous increase in the rate of "virtual" particle/antiparticle pair production...or would. But those pairs, in which a particle and its opposite normally form at the same time so they can mutually annihilate almost immediately (and by almost, I refer to Planck time; the smallest unit of time possible...essentially a 'particle' of time)...are asymmetric. The particle forms without any antiparticle. Thus, there is no annihilation. The total mass of the universe increases measurable for a measurable period of time. This should not be possible. The other shoe falls later on. The delayed antiparticles form, and the creations dissolve back into the background energy they came from.Because nothing she creates can be permanent, Alex refers to what she makes as 'fakematter.' In her own words, she describes the process as 'fooling reality into thinking there's something there.' The only limit to the ability is twofold: She can only create unliving matter. While she can create complex organic chemicals...even reproduce exactly the atoms and particles associated with, say, a frog...it would be a dead frog, even if biologically there was nothing wrong with it. This means she can create edible food...but since the molecules of that food would eventually vanish regardless of what stage of digestion they were in, or what cells currently incorporated their proteins and nutrients, it's recommended that nothing she creates be eaten. The second limit is simply...her ability to focus her will on her imagination, to translates what she wants into what is. The visualization of complex materials and understanding of their components and structures would be impossible without an incredibly intelligent and developed mind. Whether these traits are further deviations from the human norm for her, or if they surfaced because of the 'exercise' her power gives her the opportunity to practice, is not and perhaps cannot be known.[/sblock]Yay pseudoscience gobbledegook!</blockquote>

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