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Some phenomena aren't widely accepted as Real by mainstream scientists. Ideas about hard-to-reproduce anomalies are often deemed Pseudoscientific , partly because science needs phemomena to be Reproducible . Other phenomena are recognized to be substantially real, but can't be readily explained. For example, many people have observed Unidentified Flying Object s; naturally their explanations for such objects will differ as a result of their backgrounds. The Tunguska Event was an obvious and undeniable Anomaly , but ideas of what eventuated it have ranged from asteroids to cross-dimensional rips. Scientific opinion tends to be conservative partly because reputations are at stake, partly because standards are rigorous. Some anomalous phenomena are, on investigation, clearly the result of Fatigue , Illusion , Perceptual misinterpretation. Dalí celebrated the waywardness of the mind in his Famous Melting Clock Image . Hallucination s, sometimes the result of Altered States , are an example of such misinterpretation. Some Mirage s look ''very'' much like water. In this case, the brain interprets an unusual phenomenon as a similar and very common one. Einstein recognized that wonder is essential. ''The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.'' EXAMPLES OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA Some examples of anomalous phenomena are:
As the framework of scientific knowledge expands, some anomalies get explained logically, losing their status as unexplained phenomena. For instance, while the idea of stones falling from the sky was long ridiculed, Meteorite s are now acknowledged and well understood. Though actually a subcategory of anomalous phenomena, paranormal phenomena are studied in the field of Parapsychology , and can be divided into three main classes:
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