Scientifically speaking, could magic exist?

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okay i know this sounds like a really dumb question but what i mean is this: people study and experiment to find out how the universe works and it gives us pretty good theories to how the universe was created, the laws of physics, etc, but even those answers are not 100% soldified, they only reflect what we have so far observed.

bearing in mind that we as a society have repeatedly had very incorrect guesses at science simply because we lacked the knowledge/resources at the time: is it possible that something like magic could exist and we just don't know yet? is it possible that there is some sort of psychic plane of existence (maybe 4th dimension?) that we can influence the same way we might walk around a room?

i remember reading someone's theory that emotions have some sort of semi-physical dimension allowing them to linger in specific locations as a way to explain ghosts. i just think this line of thinking is very interesting and i wonder if it's actually taken seriously in the scientific world.

just wondering if anyone knows of any studies about this or similar.

Dixon · Accepted Answer

There is no magic other than what can be done with conventional miniaturising, computers, chemistry and material science. The idea there might be other unexplained forces doesn't hold up because the standard model in physics explains absolutely *everything* we experience on Earth in our  daily lives. If there were other things going on we would have found them in the Large Hadron Collider.
  
There are still unsolved areas for basic forces in physics but these only exhibit themselves in extreme cases such as what happens to gravity in black holes, or what is dark matter - mass that only shows up at the scale of whole galaxies. But by definition these things have no effect on us at a practical level, or we would have detected the interaction in particle accelerators.

? · Answer

No, because if science ever proves anything paranormal, it stops being paranormal, it's just science.

jeffdanielk · Answer

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 
A radio or a car or a plane would be magic to a person living 1000 years ago.

Andrew Smith · Answer

Science is a process for testing, observing and analyzing.  Magic is about things that cannot be tested observed or rationally analyzed.  Magic might exist but it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to be scientifically existing.

Anonymous · Answer

That depends on what part of "magic" you are talking about.

Science is limited to things that can be repeated.

Whatever it is you do, there is no second first time

Philomel · Answer

No, there is no magic, There is physics.

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