Psychokinesis

The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche", meaning mind, soul, or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis", meaning motion; literally "movement from the mind") or PK, also known as telekinesis (Greek τῆλε + κίνησις, literally "distant-movement" referring to telekinesis) or TK, denotes the paranormal ability of the mind to influence matter, time, space, or energy without the use of any currently known type of physical means. For instance, psychokinesis might be used to distort or move an object, or to influence a random number generator. The position of most skeptics of the paranormal is that psychokinesis does not exist in the real world, but only appears to exist due to fraud or statistical manipulation of scientific data, while parapsychologists say that the ability is real or deserving of further study based on eyewitness reports involving hard-to-reproduce spontaneous phenomena. Psychokinesis is a popular ability in entertainment movies, written fiction, and computer games.