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A speculative or fringe field that investigates phenomena or principles that appear to exist alongside, beyond, or in parallel to conventional physical laws—exploring the boundaries where physics meets the unexplained, the anomalous, or the supposedly impossible. Paraphysics takes seriously the possibility that our current laws might be incomplete, that phenomena dismissed as "paranormal" might indicate undiscovered dimensions of physical reality, or that consciousness might interact with matter in ways physics doesn't yet recognize. Unlike pseudoscience (which ignores evidence), paraphysics engages with anomalies while maintaining critical inquiry—asking whether UFOs, psychic phenomena, or alternative healing might point to physics beyond current understanding. Whether such inquiry leads to new physics or dead ends, paraphysics serves as a reminder that today's orthodoxy was yesterday's heresy, and that the boundaries of the physical are not necessarily the boundaries of the real.
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