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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 3578783" data-attributes="member: 21169">But by physics or physical laws do you mean the world as it really is or the world as it is understood to be?There is a term from philosophy, noumenon, which means the world as it really is, beyond human perception. It seems inconceivable to me that the noumenon could resemble the D&D rules however as the noumenon is beyond human understanding.Our debate itself seems to show that physics isn't a good word for what you are describing. 'Physics' as we use the term doesn't cover magic or psionics. Would the inhabitants of a D&D universe describe an expert on magic as a physicist? Or would they call him a wizard?</blockquote>