Does this sound like an interesting explanation for magic?

Let's say that there is a magical gene that is passed down from parent to child like any other trait. Then realistically there wouldn't be an arbitrary system of spiritual or class advancement because who writes the rules to the genes? Pfft pull the other one it's got bells on. Now let's take it a step forward why does magic work where does the energy come from and how does it perform what the magic user wants it to? Magic would have to interact directly with the brain otherwise it would be relatively separate from his or her body a tool instead of a 3rd arm, granted unintended consequences would happen it's just a matter of learning an choice. Where do you get the energy? That's a tougher nut to crack, presumably since the gene somehow interacts with your neurology perhaps it could work like a empathy engine or quantum computer you think hard enough imagining what you want to do and your neurons realign to cause quantum entanglement to shift probability on a quantum level effecting macro scale matter. somehow this would work presumably because of entropy so your brain would turn into a thermal engine or nuclear or possibly chemical. Two sorcerers fight who would win? 1) Why would they fight they don't need anything from each other and any insult or injury could be laughed off. 2) A fight would be governed by reaction time, endurance, world knowledge, and spells available; how fast they react, how long they take to fight, how much they know about the world and can thus manipulate it, and how they express that knowledge. How could they possibly calculate the bla bla in order to do bla bla, the brain is the most powerful computer that we know of mostly because it keeps parts of itself hidden. That said, hand waves and magi babble.

To further expound.

The magi gene or genes alters the brain to act like a quantum entanglement machine, they feel empathy so strong that it creates a effect. their mind has perhaps an extra layer of imagination lets call it area 1, using their senses they perceive area 2, and area 3 is some where far far away but it is the mathematical equivelent of area 2. (kind of how like in a point build system if something has 200 build points there could be two characters that are very different but have 200 build points) Some how the character's mind can use the energy in area 3 to change area 2 into a physical replica of area 1. perhaps area 3 had a lightning storm one less bolt would happen but somewhere else a rose is no longer dead. The process is very efficient but not 100% there for the space between area 2 and 3 get "magic particles" given off as waste perhaps auroras happen or something, these "particles" luckily enough are usable in magic somehow which means you have a feed back loop (more magic, more particles; slightly more magic, even more particles etc) kind of like Gurren Laggan give or take the big crunch. where I to wager a guess sorcerers have something akin to a gravity well surrounding them that attracts these particals (like you are attracted to the earth kind of softly but enough).

edited 23rd Apr '11 4:06:20 AM by Zolnier

There's a theory that dreams are a quantum link between the sleeping brain and another place. Maybe your magic is a sort of lucid dreaming. First, the brain links to a desired pattern of matter in an arbitrary and very distant place (galaxies away). Second, the mage tries to link the target to that pattern so that the target takes on that pattern.

The possibilities are infinite. Need a fireball? Link to an erupting volcano. The catch is that, once the mage breaks the link, the target assumes its original pattern (as well as it can, that is).

So do magic starves do anything to contradict the explanation?

Also is there any room for proper "magic" (in the sense of the unexplainable) with this explanation?

I'm sorry if this reads as overly harsh, but I have to say this rubs me the wrong way. I don't like Doing In the Wizard, and your technobabbly "explanation" is just magic under a different name. Honestly, unless you have a good reason to do this - whatever that might be - I'd just have magic be magic.

Not that that means you can't give it rules.