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'Pataphysics (French: 'pataphysique) is an absurdist, pseudo-scientific literary trope. ′Pataphysics is to metaphysics as metaphysics is to physics. ′Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions. ′Pataphysics describes the hypothetical that comes from the imaginary. ′Pataphysics sometimes finds useful from the useless. ′Pataphysics is tongue-in-cheek rules taken seriously, but not too much. ′Pataphysics has become a joke of applied pseudoscience in that it has been seriously done<ref>http://pata.fania.eu/</ref>. ′Pataphysics on rare occasions is how the world ought to be and points out [[Reality Is Unrealistic]].
You wonder what it would be like if you turn on your headlights moving at the speed of light. You wonder if character A's [[Applied Phlebotinum]] existed in character B's world. You wonder what would happen if national personifications <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personification</ref> existed and interacted to represnet the actions of their countries. You wonder what rules might be in place for a world on [[Discworld|the back of a giant turtle]]. If you have ever wondered how things might be if something that is not is, you have develved into the pataphysical!
'''’Pataphysics is not postmodernism.''' The two philosophies are fundamentally incompatable, in fact<ref>http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/pataphysics-is-dead-serious/</ref>. Postmodernism proposes that reality is a fiction or that there is no difference between literal and metaphorial truth. ′Pataphysics proposes that there is a reality and that it is not the same as metaphorical realities, which themselves are distinct constructs. Indeed, the construction of metaphorical realities is taken from metaphysics and their study and in depth exploration is a core part of ′pataphysics. ′Pataphysics recognizes these metaphorical realities as just that, imaginary. ′Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions after all. It might even be argued that ’pataphysics is the exact opposite of postmodernism for all this.▼
▲It is important to avoid misunderstanding to understand that '''
Because 'pataphysics deals with the science of the particular instead of the general, it has some unique concepts.
* Concepts
** Clinamen, “the smallest possible aberration that can make the greatest possible difference.”<ref>Bök 2002, p.43-45.</ref>
** Antinomy, the mutually incompatible. It represents the duality of things, the echo or symmetry, the good and the evil at the same time. Hugill mentions various examples including the plus minus, the faust-troll, the haldern-ablou, the yes-but, the ha-ha and the paradox.<ref>Hugill 2012, p.9-12.</ref>
** Syzygy, in a pataphysical context it is the pun. It usually describes a conjunction of things, something unexpected and surprising. Serendipity is a simple chance encounter but the syzygy has a more scientific purpose. Bök mentions Jarry suggesting that the fall of a body towards a centre might not be preferable to the ascension of a vacuum towards a periphery.<ref>Bök 2002, p.40-43.</ref>
** Absolute, the absolute is the idea of a transcended reality.<ref>Hugill 2012, p.16-19.</ref>
** Anomaly, an anomaly represents the exception. Jarry said that "pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one".<ref>Jarry 1996, p.21.</ref> Bök calls it “the repressed part of a rule which ensures that the rule does not work”.<ref>Bök 2002, p.38-40.</ref><ref>Hugill 2012, p.12-13.</ref>
** Pataphor, a pataphor is an unusually extended metaphor based on 'pataphysics. As Jarry claimed that ‘pataphysics exists "as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality", a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from metaphor as metaphor exists from non-figurative language.<ref>http://www.pataphor.com/whatisapataphor.html</ref>
In terms of tropes, ′pataphysics might be the greatest one of all, with all tropes being examples of it as the rules of [[Theory of Narrative Causality|narrative causalities]] called stories. The [[Troper|troper]] is the pataphysician of these pataphorical worlds. Our [[Anthropomorphic Personification|metaphors run amok]] become pataphors, and our pataphors subject to our tropes. In these worlds the [[Genre Savvy]] are the physicists, and everything around them is the result of some person asking "what would it be like if [[All Theories Are True]]?" Or maybe it's just [[Artistic License Physics]] for worlds based on [[Rule of Cool]], [[Just for Fun]].
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