WordNet
n. a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy
Usage examples of "physical phenomenon".
If you have a visual image of your friend sitting in a chair which in fact is empty, you cannot locate the image in your body, because it is visual, nor (as a physical phenomenon) in the chair, because the chair, as a physical object, is empty.
Robert Forward has proposed a mechanism, based upon a real physical phenomenon known as the Casimir Effect.
Another very physical phenomenon occurred with a man who didn't believe in absent healing.
In his case it seems to be either a psychic or a psycho-physical phenomenon.
The cases are manifold, and I mention only a few of them, but my point is that the whole of this system, from the lowest physical phenomenon of a table-rap up to the most inspired utterance of a prophet, is one complete whole, each attached to the next one, and that when the humbler end of that chain was placed in the hand of humanity, it was in order that they might, by diligence and reason, feel their way up it until they reached the revelation which waited in the end.
The closest physical phenomenon that I know of is what's called combustion.
The closest physical phenomenon that I know of is whats called combustion.