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  • Once humanity creates a Grand Theory of Everything that actually works and is proven … and if that Grand Theory disallows for things beyond our ken such as paraphysics or the Divine … then I’ll put aside my curiosity of such things.

    Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory Sean 2008

  • And nobody, nobody else has even thought about doing anything with the paraphysics of magic swords.

    I love this cover | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2008

  • The fact that physics as a discipline is more successful than say, paraphysics, because it is describing clear-cut, logically successive observations of the human organism, the natural philosophy.

    What’s the (Dark) Matter? John 2008

  • When physicists go off into these nether realms, they start talking about the “physical basis of consciousness” and try to conjure up special particles, special physics, or paraphysics.

    Versions of Immortality James Killus 2008

  • When physicists go off into these nether realms, they start talking about the “physical basis of consciousness” and try to conjure up special particles, special physics, or paraphysics.

    Archive 2008-05-01 James Killus 2008

  • The Card novel suffers from his occasionally wooden characterization (his Columbus is, by dint of being a plaster saint with feet of clay, the most nuanced character in the book) and a drippy utopia, the Wilson novel from desperate paraphysics doubletalk and what I consider to be a failed (but worthy) attempt to resolve the strands of destiny and choice that litter the book.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

  • This feat of skill was performed under the mental noses of about eight operators trained to exert their extrasensory talents toward the defeat of sharpshooters who tried to add paraphysics to the laws of chance.

    The Big Fix George Oliver Smith 1946

  • They met all the Operators and discussed generators and fields of force and mathematics and paraphysics and Guntherics.

    The Galaxy Primes 1927

  • Investigation, by scientists, of people who are telepathic, is called parapsychology or paraphysics.

    Article Source Jason D Stevens 2009

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