Personal Reality and Superpowers

This—really was strange—

He could not help frowning.

According to Academy City's officially published theory, so-called "Personal Reality" was rooted in the observer effect of quantum mechanics.

It was akin to a macroscopic manifestation of "Schrödinger's cat."

This theory held that when an observer observed microscopic particles, their actions influenced the particles' final state.

Through a series of methods such as drug injections, electroshock therapy, and systematic hypnosis, Academy City molded its students into powerful "observers."

These "observers" could forcibly impose their personal understanding of the world—namely, their "Personal Reality"—over the objectively existing "World Reality."

In doing so, they distorted the laws of physics and triggered supernatural phenomena.

When he had first arrived in this world, before joining [Space], he had already felt that this theory was full of strange inconsistencies.

After all, in the world before his transmigration, no matter how scientists observed things or hypnotized experimental subjects, they could not possibly make someone conjure fireballs or shoot lightning out of thin air.

Still, following the principle that anything which existed had a reason for existing, he had kept those doubts buried in his heart and developed a strong interest in this miraculous phenomenon.

That was also why he had chosen to become a physics teacher at a high school.

Given his qualifications and background, he was not yet able to enter those cutting-edge research institutions.

He was not a local of Academy City, nor did he possess any groundbreaking achievements.

So, he could only choose to come to Academy City and teach.

After all, schools were undoubtedly the places closest to esper development and the easiest places to access firsthand information.

However, it was only after synchronizing the memories of the other "him" from other worlds that he truly realized what was so bizarre about Academy City's esper