Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy,

precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional

experiences, and other paranormal claims. It is identified as pseudoscience by a vast majority
of mainstream scientists.

Parapsychology research is largely conducted by private institutions in several countries and

funded through private donations, and the subject rarely appears in mainstream science
journals. Most papers about parapsychology are published in a small number of niche
journals.[4] Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation despite being
unable to provide convincing evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more
than a century of research.

The ideas of psi (precognition, psychokinesis and telepathy) violate well-established laws of
physics. Psychokinesis violates the inverse-square law, the second law of thermodynamics, and
the conservation of momentum. There is no known mechanism for psi.

On the subject of psychokinesis, the physicist Sean M. Carroll has written that both human
brains and the spoons they try to bend are made, like all matter, of quarks and leptons;
everything else they do emerges as properties of the behavior of quarks and leptons. And the
quarks and leptons interact through the four forces: strong, weak, electromagnetic and
gravitational. Thus either it's one of the four known forces or it's a new force, and any new
force with range over 1 millimetre must be at most a billionth the strength of gravity or it will
have been captured in experiments already done. This leaves no physical force that could
possibly account for psychokinesis.