Psst - Ix-nay on the ATAL-Fay in the layground-Pay.

Quote Originally Posted by Tinydwarfman View Post
'Indistinguishable from magic', not actually magic. Magic breaks the Laws of Physics, science works from within them.
And science fiction is the middle ground - starting within the laws of physics, and then diverging to either a small or large degree depending on the subject matter at hand.

Psionics, on the other hand, doesn't do this; they handwave away most effects with "ectoplasm" which might as well be "mana" for all the scientific implication it has.