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Noun: physical impossibility
  1. A situation is physically impossible if its description is inconsistent with physical laws (i.e. with the laws of Nature).
    "This is in contradiction with observations of such flows, but as it turns out a fluid that rigorously satisfies all the conditions is a physical impossibility."

Type of: impossibility, impossibleness

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