@Felthry This whole thread is very much up my Mad Lutrine alley. Lai tends towards more engineering, but it behaves more like magic than anything else.
More like..."science" is his paradigm with which strange and mysterious things happen.
(See also Mage: The Ascension's concept of Society of Ether, which is Very Me. http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Sons_of_Ether )