[quote=@Nimda]
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You have to be able to see and navigate. And it also ignores magnetic fields of atoms. The Sillicon is as close as the atoms can physically get. 
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Atoms are mostly empty space. But instead of being absorbed into the nucleus like a photon normally would upon entering an atom's space, Spectre is keeping them under his control.