Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26476878-20160228112842/@comment-3045936-20190420032320

Magic isn’t an exact science if it would be, it would be a science. Needlessly to say Magic in TES likely bends or even breaks the Laws of Physics. After all Time-Travel is believed to be physically impossible. Yet in Skyrim Alduin is banished some 4000+ years into the future via an Elder Scroll.

While I think magic in TES and in general can ignore the laws of physics and the Laws of Conservation of Matter, Mass, and Energy its mortals that can’t. I think in TES magic usually works within science rather than beyond it. While it can, it’s not ideal. As science holds the physical world together. Start breaking all the laws that govern it, the world would be damaged and maybe even beyond repair. Not to mention mortal can’t take into account for the entirely of universal laws when they try to use powerful spells.

Gods are as limited. However I also believe that while the powers of the Aedra/Dedra are magic. They are so far transcended that like how magic is beyond science. I think the powers of the gods are beyond the magic used by mortals.