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In reply to the discussion: I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT trump is going to lose in November. [View all]qazplm135
(7,447 posts)everything we know about basic physics and science would have to be wrong.
We'd need a mechanism for information from the future to flow to the past, and directly into a human brain.
And given that the human brain follows the laws of physics, we should be able to beat an artificial device to capture this information flow. Heck, we should at the very least be able to detect this information flow as some sort of energy.
We'd also have to give up on the concept of free will, and randomness. The latter is a BEDROCK principle of quantum physics and science. Because if something is "destined" to happen, then randomness goes right out the window. And so does free will. And if it's not destined to happen, then how can you "know" it's going to happen?
In short, for psychics to be real, logic, reason, and basic science would all have to go out the window.
Furthermore, despite your claim that I haven't heard of parapsychology, quite the opposite. I know very much about it. I know that we have tried to test for various "psychic" abilities for almost 200 years now. Not once has a properly down scientific study even hinted at it being real, much less suggested a mechanism for how it would work.
You can't "see" something without light hitting your eyes, and your brain cannot receive information without an electrical impulse being generated (I'm way over simplifying it but you get the idea). That light or that impulse has to be generated by something else, which should be able to be tracked. They have studied brains of "psychics" and "non-psychics" to see if there are any differences to account for the former. Answer? Nope. Nada.
So you are left with three possible answers:
1. The supernatural. "God" did it and there is no science because "God" temporarily overruled the laws of physics so that "Susie" could read your future. (Oh and free will is an illusion).
2. Some whole new law(s) of physics that is not only unknown but renders a large chunk of the rest of physics just plain wrong. Quantum physics is wrong. Randomness is wrong. Newton's laws are wrong. Free will is wrong. Four fundamental forces of nature is wrong.
3. Psychics and psychic powers are not real.
Now, 1 is an obvious cop-out. 2 has zero evidence for it. Zero. Zero point zero repeating.
Which leaves 3.