Is it possible to explain ghosts and hauntings with physics?
By paranominal
Published: February 4, 2009
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By definition, paranormal events are outside or beyond normal physical understanding, or they would have been explained in those terms already.
As an "investigator", don't you think that you should be sceptical about all "paranormal" events until you have evidence, either pro or con?
And you must surely have a profound knowledge of physics to even begin to exclude ordinary effects in the events you are "investigating", otherwise how can you be certain that you have excluded the basic normal physical systems.
yes, the entire universe is made up of energy, so where does the energy that keeps us alive, or as a lot of people call it our soul, go when the vessel holding it, our body, fails.
Not really because Goshts what ever they are supposed to represent dont fit in the category of some thing physical following the law of physics.
There are many things we do not see and are not explanable with physics.WHAT ELSE CAN I TELL YOU!
if you look through my Best Answers, you'll find that I've had lots of paranormal experiences, and i'm willing to talk about them. I've also had some experience with magick bending the accepted laws of reality.
It seems to me that only non-magickal beings are entirely bound by physics
All these things are crap.
Most all scientists will tell you…
The natural world is investigated using physics and other sciences.
Physics and other sciences has "NOTHING TO SAY" about the supernatural nor the paranormal.
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Maybe a psychologist could help explain why someone has had a not natural experience.
Well, there is a way to explain ghosts in a physic way…
There exist substances that under certain pressure and temperature can become super-fluids. A super-fluid can go trough most materials almost as a ghost. So, if there was a gas capable of being super-fluid, or with its atoms disperse enough to pass between other substance's atoms, it could perfectly be the "physical" body of a ghost.
Science cant explain it. Its for this reason its called PARANORMAL!!!
i would say that all haunting can be explained with logic. Anton LeVey had many writings on the subject. If you read any of his books, some of his theories make perfect sense. like people being possessed, a lot cases could be explained with odd angles in a house such as the trapezoid. for some reason over a period of time these angles cause an disturbance in the brain and make you insane, in return earning people the title of being possessed. his writings explain it much better than mine.
I don't believe in paranormal investigators.
But yes how about: the wind, a draft, the cold, shadows etc, etc…
When something falls, & no one was around, did a ghost do it?
Physics deals with the physical world, not the spiritual. Personally, I think that somethings are better left to mystery; if we know everything then where is the fun in life — or after-life– .
Given enough imagination, you can explain almost anything with a sufficiently large dataset to draw on: see Slutzsky's Theorem and think about it in terms of things outside time series analysis…
Having said THAT, the theory has been advanced that these sightings actually could fall into numerous types of categories; some are quite probably purely psychological phenomona, others are probably illusions or misperceptions; some may well be a cockeyed chain of events that are (individually) quite mundane but which are bizarre as a chain–field effects and the like.
What I have heard suggested by serious, rather free-thinking but otherwise hard-nosed physicists is that there may be the temporal equivalent of a wormhole: something that will transmit light across large spans of time, but little else, other than (perhaps) other fields and possibly pressure waves (=sound). Do I buy that? No–nor do I reject it out of hand, either. HOWEVER, it is interesting to note that spectral appearances are invariably from the past, and often from the distant (but not too distant) past. We're talking years to a few centuries, rarely if ever millenia, and I've never heard of a ghost CroMagnon or Astralopithicus or even Homo erectus or whatever. This suggests that there is a distancing issue–you can only jump so far forward, so to speak, or the perception can only be so long delayed.
This thought is potentially one that is experimentally testable, actually–or at least potentially so. Consider this thought: if there is something equivalent to a wormhole or quantum tunneling through time, it is reasonable to assume that the larger the distance in time "traveled" the more blurred the image is likely to be. THUS, you can set up a "grid" of observations that allow you to rate how "clear" an apparation is–things like number of facial features clearly present, whether clothing is present, whether audible and discrete phonemes are heard in any sound made (you might want to go for just consonants; they's likely be disappearing before vowels, and that gets you past most barriers caused by languages differing); and you can set up some sort of tool (how, I don't know) to allow you to rate the probable age of the appearance. That would probably need some sort of something to identify the period of the spectre–like period clothing, perhaps, which would require a fairly clear apparition, or the legend of who the spectre is supposed to be, and from when–but I leave that detail to you, because you've probably more data to sift and can find more in terms of datable stuff than I can dredge up out of my ol' brain.
The null hypothesis: there is no relationship between clarity of apparition and putative age of its source.
Active hypothesis: the older the putative age of an apparition's source, the less distinct it is likely to be.
Just remember: don't expect a single explanation to handle it all, because the odds are that there are multiple phenomona all being lumped together as "ghosts" or "hauntings"…