Matter Manipulation

## Overview

**Matter Manipulation** is the ability to manipulate the particles that make up matter and the bonds between them. Matter manipulation can even involve the influence of any states that is considered matter, whether it be solids, liquids, gaseous, plasma and more. This is a more scientific power compared to Elemental Manipulation which looks at classical types of elements.

## Possible Uses

* The user can dematerialize the matter of targeted objects either to destroy or disintegrate, or break them down into multiple smaller composite forms of the original or in a different form that serves roughly the same purpose.
	+ Ex. Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach)
* The user can transmute matter to different forms in it's volume, density, mass, or change into different states of matter such as:
	+ Gas Manipulation
	+ Liquid Manipulation
	+ Plasma Manipulation
	+ Solid Manipulation

## Methods

There are different ways that Matter can be affected for those who are at a base level:

* Compression: The user can cause the matter of the object to be squeezed into a smaller point.
* Fragmenting: The user can cause matter to be fragmented due to their brittle nature.
* Impact: The user can deform matter with displacing the volume of the ojects.
* Impaling: The user can cause matter to be cause openings in matter with focused precision.
* Slicing: The user can sever the pieces of matter from focused precision.
* Tearing: The user can affect the structure of matter by tearing apart into pieces.

## The Scale

### Molecular Manipulation

The ability to manipulate molecules and their bonds. Said bonds include ionic (Electrons are transferred), covalent (Electrons are shared equally), polar covalent (Electrons are shared unequally), diatomic (Molecules consisting of only two atoms), and hydrogen bonds. Applications at this level include effects such as changing the nature of materials (i.e., the way carbon chains are bonded to turn one hydrocarbon into another), or tear opponents apart by severing the molecular bonds that make up their bodies. However, they are not able to change existing elements, as this is tied more to the nature of atoms, rather than molecules.

### Atomic Manipulation

The ability to manipulate individual atoms, ions, and isotopes. At this level, users can change the nature of atoms and their properties, allowing them to transmute one thing into another, destroy atoms to obliterate targets, and completely rearrange atomic structures to create virtually anything. The user may also be able to manipulate the radioactive decay within certain atoms and isotopes as well.

### Sub-Atomic Manipulation

The ability to manipulate sub-atomic particles such as the protons and neutrons within atoms themselves. The manipulation of electrons however, is Macro-Quantum, as nothing makes them up and they are of importance in principles such as Pauli Exclusion and the Uncertainty Principle, and are the size of quarks.

### Macro-Quantum Manipulation

The ability to manipulate quarks, bosons (Gluons, Photons, Higgs Bosons, etc.), and leptons (Electrons, Muons, Positrons, Tau Particles, and Neutrinos). This also endows the ability to tinker with other properties at this level, such as electron arrangement and spin.

### Quantum Manipulation

The ability to manipulate 1D quantum strings and foam, allowing the user to manipulate the very fundamental space-time packets that form our universe. The potential applications of this level are nearly unlimited, such as the aforementioned manipulation of space-time, the manipulation of matter and energy fields, and some users can even manipulate higher dimensions with it.

## Types of Matter

* **Dark Matter**: A type of matter that does not interact with any form of Electromagnetic Radiation, and is closely related to Gravity and what causes the formation of Galaxies.
* **Exotic Matter**: A type of matter that would violate the fundamental laws of physics.