User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 568. Hear. Fear. Here 2/@comment-5693502-20140212122816/@comment-24153155-20140212234440

Sooo, I suppose that Rukia's temperature-controlling ability to transition to and from a "packed" semi-bose-einstein condensate and being able to warm up to regular "Sereitei/Schattenbereich/Vandenreich- room temperature" with only a finger cut in just one manga page...is indeed manga magic. I still hope we will get to see Rukia in a superconductivity state though. Come on, Kubo! Lol! And, wow. Äs is indeed creepy. Since Kubo is throwing in some neuroscience into the magic mixture anyway: I was wondering if it could be perhaps that Äs can magically detach the central nervous system from the peripheral nervous system of his victim or himself while in his Vollständig? ... That would be scary... an attempt to synthesize a bit of logic here ;)

Pseudo-scientific explanations or not, gotta say I still love how Kubo actually does bring up (natural)scientific/religious themes. I do not expect him to come up with a Nobel Prize awarding description of say the GUT, but I think as a non-scientist he really rocks at creating an original world. Aside from that, although Kubo is probably unaware, some themes can actually really be discussed (not explained) scientifically. (The formation of) Fear memories for example, (is)are believed to be the result of a concerted behavior of certain neurons to fire an action potential. A fun little fact is that one of the major studies in this field is lead by an Japanese/American lab (They actually work with "visual genetics")(Highly speculative, but perhaps Kubo read a popular scientific article on this). One could discuss that you could lose your ability to fear smtg due to the disability of firing an action potential if it's just cold enough (in a manga world at absolute zero, why not;) It reminds me a bit of "The science of Star Trek": despite the series being kinda old already, people still talk about black holes, which, to this day, are still very fashionable both in the scientific, as well as the non-scientific communities =D