User:MiamiVolts/Theory:Science behind the abilities

The following is a list of my personal theories on scientific names and explanations for each of the displayed evolved human abilities in Heroes episodes, evolutions and graphic novels:

Current name	Scientific Name(s)	Explanation
Acid secretion	already scientific	The user's forearms and hands have enhanced sweat glands that can secrete large amounts of acidic fluid from the skin's surface.
Adoptive muscle memory	already scientific	The user has an enhanced brain function which enables rapid memorization of observed muscle movements.
Alchemy	already scientific	The user's body has the capability to emit chemicals that can transform matter that the user touches.
Alejandro's ability	antidote emission, poison removal, poison immunity	The user has a biological immunity to poisons that can be shared chemically when touching.
Aura absorption	life energy absoption	The user's body has the capability to emit chemicals which absorb the cellular energies of a living creature (including any evolved ability the target may have).
Bliss and horror	emotion manipulation	The user has an enhanced ability to emit pheromones from one's body that can alter others' emotions as desired.
Clairsentience	already scientific	The user has the ability to mentally travel through time, experiencing visions of the history of the object touched.
Clairvoyance	already scientific	The user has the ability to astrally observe any person thought of.
Crumpling	density manipulation, softening	The user has the ability to emit chemicals that can modify the density of matter that the user touches, allowing solid matter to be easily bent or crushed.
Dehydration	already scientific	The user has the ability to absorb fluids via touch.
Disintegration touch	plasma emission	The user can emit plasma from the user's hands and forearm (plasma, normally several thousand degrees Celsius, is hot enough to disintegrate many objects upon touching them). The user is immune to the effects of this ability.
Dream manipulation	already scientific	The user has the ability to communicate through dreams. Communication is performed by synchronizing the user's conscious brain waves with the target's subconscious and thus performing a form of mental teleportation.
Electrical absorption	already scientific	The user has an enhanced ability to store electrical charge.
Electromagnetism	already scientific	The user has an ability to direct electromagnetic potential using his or her own bioelectric field. This allows for both levitation and shooting bursts of electricity at desired targets.
Electronic data transception	already scientific	The user has an enhanced mental capability to understand and send wireless data. At an advanced stage, the user's entire consciousness and body makeup can be transmitted as data similar to a Star Trek teleporter.
Empathic mimicry	already scientific	The user has the passive ability to alter his own dna to include the enhanced portions of dna of those he meets. Touch is not required so dna identification is assumed to be performed olfactorily (using the sense of smell).
Enhanced hearing	already scientific	The user has an enhanced hearing ability caused by being more sensitive than normal to audible vibrations. The enhancement allows the user to identify the slightest noise at far distances, and thus is useful for easedropping.
Enhanced memory	already scientific	The user has an enhanced memory ability that allows for recall of the faintest events. This ability is caused by a reduction in the mind's natural tendency to suppress older memories.
Enhanced speed	already scientific	The user has an enhanced muscles that can twitch at a faster than normal rate.
Flight	already scientific	The users can temporarily convert their mass and that of the air around them into metabolic energy (E = mc2). The reduced mass makes them lighter than air, thus countering the force of gravity on their body and propelling them through the air.
Freezing	already scientific	The user can freeze or generate frost around any desired matter by absorbing the heat from it and the air around it.
Healing	already scientific	The user can emit special healing proteins from the hands that can heal the wounds and injuries of others that are touched.
Illusion	already scientific	The user can project any desired image directly into one or more heads using brain wave synchronization.
Induced radioactivity	already scientific	The user has an enhanced metabolism that can energize the user's cells such that they emit high-frequency radiation.
Intuitive aptitude	already scientific	The user has an enhanced mental capacity to instantly understand how things work.
Invisibility	already scientific	The user can willfully control moving his both in and out of a fourth physical dimension that shares the same time-space history as our own. The degree to which the user moves into this dimension only controls the user's opacity. Thus, the user can be invisible and still interact and be injured as when visible.
Levitation	already scientific	The user has the mental capability to completely counter the net force of gravity enacted on individual objects. Unlike telekinesis, the ability cannot apply force in any directional other than opposite of the net gravity vector of each object. On Earth or another astronomical body of comparitively larger mass, this means a levitated object must still be physically pushed or pulled to be moved parallel to the surface of the desired body. However, the force used to push/pull a levitated object is negligible due to the lack of surface friction. In the near weightless environment of outer space, objects may already be levitating but the ability can be used to maintain or raise the orbit of desired objects.
Lightning	already scientific	The user can use their own bioelectric field to create points of electric differential from the user's body to a desired target and generate bursts of electricity that follow that path.
Luminescence	already scientific	The user can make their own body visibly glow at will via chemical reaction in the user's body's cells.
Mediumship	spectral vision	The user has the ability to see the cosmic energy of individuals who have died (spirits).
Melting	already scientific	The user can lower the melting point of any desired matter to room temperature by shooting it with a burst of metabolic energy from the user's hand.
Mental manipulation	neurocognitive deficit	When touching a person, the user can emit specialized proteins that read and break neuropathways in a person's brain that retain memory. The user can also emit pheromones that can cause the inhibition of an evolved human's abilities or the mental breakdown of a normal person to the state of zombie.
Morphing	already scientific	The user can emit a protein from the user's hands. The protein makes the applied person's body's organs and tissues temporarily mutable like clay/silly putty. The person to whom the ability is applied can then take any desired form for a limited amount of time. The cells of the person who to whom the ability is applied remember their original state and automatically revert when the effects of the protein wear off. It is not clear as to whether the ability can alter a person's mass, so transformation into a smaller or larger animal may not be possible.
Omnilingualism	already scientific	The user has an enhanced mental capacity to instantly understand and speak the language of anyone he meets.
Telescopic vision	enhanced vision	The user has an enhanced visual cortex that allows for clear vision at telescopic distances and darker than normal situations. Note that the visual cortex is part of the user's brain; seeing takes place in the brain, not the eye. The Company's testing has confirmed the visual cortex enhancement.
Persuasion	already scientific	The user has the ability to emit pheromones which causes others to bend to the user's will.
Phasing	already scientific	The user can willfully control moving his both in and out of a fourth physical dimension that shares the same time-space history as our own. The degree to which the user moves into this dimension only controls the user's permeability to normal matter. Thus, the user can partially materialize a portion of one of the user's limbs inside of an object, disrupt it and not injure him or her self.
Plant growth	already scientific	The user can emit pheromones which cause plants to rapidly grow to unusual size and to produce in abundance.
Poison emission	already scientific	The user can emit poisonous pheromones.
Precognition	already scientific	The user has the ability to mentally travel through time, experiencing visions of a potential future. The user can also see the past if it will be altered by a future time traveler.
Pyrokinesis	already scientific	The user has the ability to increase the quantum spin of the molecular structure of portions of the user's own body, creating heat and thus flames through friction.
Rapid cell regeneration	already scientific	The user has an enhanced version of a body's natural healing system which enables rapid regeneration of bone, skin and brain cells. A side-effect of this regeneration is that the person cannot die.
Replication	already scientific	The user has the ability to materialize copies of him or her self and other known matter. The copies are made by converting part of the user's metabolic energy into physical matter.
Space-time manipulation	already scientific	The user has the ability to convert his own body to and from energy that travels faster than the speed of light. This enables the user to teleport through space and time.
Super strength	enhanced strength	The user has enhanced muscle strength.
Technopathy	already scientific	The user can synchronize the user's own brain function with the processing system of different electronic devices enabling thought control of said devices.
Telekinesis	already scientific	The user has the mental capability to alter the force of gravity upon individual objects.
Telepathy	already scientific	The user has the mental capability to read and transmit thoughts by synchronizing the user's brain waves with those nearby.
Water mimicry	already scientific	The user has the capability to temporarily transform his body into water. The transformation works by first transforming to energy and then to the element of water.

Notes

• This is my personal list and is not meant for movement to the main namespace.
• Although pheromones are best known as sexual attractors, they do not have to be sexual in nature.