Inexplicable

Dictionary Definition
Difficult or impossible to explain or account for. Things happening in an order in throughout time and relative dimension in space. This can also have the effect of being placed in a situation with no context to how one arrives there. Things happening out of the assumed order of how events should occur.
Example
Due to our understanding of physics, we know that anything may occur but the probability of its occurrence is dependent on how often it has occurred before. A great way to understand a specific example of this would be to drop a glass of water. The assumed outcome of an event would be for the glass to shatter upon the floor and remain in broken pieces until it is picked up. An unexpected outcome would be for it to reform itself and fly back into his/her hand immediately after such event were to occur. Thus it would be an inexplicable scenario.
The only way to have an outcome like that is to record a dropped glass on an analog film or digitally edit it, the glass video may be replayed backwards and it would be easy to come to the conclusion that the glasses velocities reversed and coalesced into the original glass.
Example two
Another example of this would to see and object and touch it. The assumed outcome of such an event would be for the object to exert an equal and opposite force to the person touching it. The inexplicable scenario would be for the persons hand to move through the object. This can easily be done in a number of different ways. A simple example would be that the object was a holographic projection but looked indistinguishable from the "real world"( in the sense that the assumed outcome would be feeling the texture of the object or restriction of your hand moving in that direction because the object would impede its progress)
Example three
Seeing the outcome of events before they happen. This can easily be done in numerous different ways using current special effect techniques.In the film Deja Vu the premise is that there is a bomb explodes. Using a futurist device they are able to see into the past before the event occurs to understand "who" did it. This is an inexplicable situation because there are to many loop holes in the premise and outcome of the film.They create the rules of this world as they go along. Some how it all makes sense in the end and conveys an understanding of the chain of events in the movie.
Nature of Events
This however calls into question the nature of reality. Because we are able to edit events in these ways. It casts doubt on the idea of choice. Why did we edit that scene in that specific way. This could have implications that we live in per-determined universe. Much like rolling the dice there is always an outcome that can be observed.
Latin Origins
The term can be derived from the Latin "inexplicabilis". Meaning that cannot be unfolded or disentangled, very intricate.
from in- "not" + explicabilis "that may be explained"

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