Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27864278-20170201121340/@comment-30766268-20180511142412

as Arthur C clarke said:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

that's the basic principle in sci-fi.

You use things who do not exist in our world, but are exlainable by science, one way or another, even if it's just a pseudo science.

the difference is that in fantasy the explanation is magic, and that's it.

in sci-fi, the explanation can be anything, as long as it have SOME connection to science.

even when magic have systems, and classifications in fantasy, that still doens't change the fact that you never even bother to explain what magic is.

the moment you do, it's sci-fi, not fantasy.

psionics allow you, via you'r mind, to manipulate the laws of physics, at it highest degree, but nothing more then that.

magic allow you to outright ignore them, at it's highest forms.

psionics would find an explanation to what they are doing, which would have SOME anchoring in science, while magicians would just out right say that the only explanation is amgic.

that is the simple difference.

it you still don't understand it, then I'm sorry, but there is nothing I can do to try and explain it.