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Several works of fiction explain pyrokinetic powers as being the ability to
excite or speed up an object's atoms, increasing their thermal energy until they
ignite, not neccesarily objects, but also air particles. In The Science of
Stephen King, authors Gresh and Weinberg argue that this is "vaguely
possible", but characterize it as "generally the stuff of comic books", such as
Marvel Comics' Human Torch and Pyro. Without some form of
electromechanical device, such as a device to release several of the compounds
that do spontaneously ignite upon contact with the oxygen in air (such as silane, a pyrophoric gas, or rubidium), or some form of triggering device located
at the source of the fire, there is no scientifically known method for the brain
to trigger explosions and fires at a distance
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