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Physics Proves the Existence of Ghosts?

Posted by mattusmaximus on November 24, 2011



Do Einstein’s Laws Prove Ghosts Exist?







E = mc2

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  2. Tom said


  3. Lenny said



    Thanks for your blog,

  4. brandy said

    I have a ghost following me its a good ghost

  5. hari said

    what about the animals

  6. Roger said




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    • Joe said

      But where does this consciousness get it’s energy and ability to manifest itself? And why aren’t there more tangible cases providing evidence of this consciousness?

      • Jeff said

        I’ve been toying with an idea in my mind for a while about why there is no concrete evidence for ghosts. Legends of past, people we know have had many strange encounters they cannot account for. Now what I have thought about is based in a way to neutrinos as you know billions pass through each one of us every second without us being aware of it, and not only us but the world itself. Ironically nicknamed ghost particles. What if (and unfortunately for now nothing conclusive has been proven) with the Hadron collider and the other particle accelerator experiments going on that we discover the Dark Matter is actually other realities that co-exist with our reality, but like neutrinos pass through us without us being aware if it, maybe other realities co-exist with our own reality, a kind of interwoven reality map of existence. What if ghosts are fluctuations in reality and we cannot read it because it is not stable in our reality. Not so much dead people from beyond the grave but maybe other beings from other realms, that through anomalies in gravity or the electromagnetic fields or some more exotic field which we do not understand yet. It is also possible that ghosts are effects upon the mind which we don’t fully understand yet, hence why some people can see them and others cannot. Would also explain why we cannot find readings for it. Maybe some people are more sensitive too to these electromagnetic fields and that is why they can see other realms (almost like conduits). What I don’t like and disagree with is that people dismiss it because they don’t believe. Not very constructive and really is the reason why true research is not really conducted to the best part. Also we don’t truly understand consciousness as of yet which could be a completely new kind of force (maybe an evolutionary process of energy, just like how we evolve on the materialistic level) However even matter is a concentration of energy so what do we fully understand anyway. Those ghost shows though I agree total nonsense. I agree if there was anything in those shows we would have had our answers by now. Energy can change state so maybe it can also slip between realms (think multiverse rather than heaven and hell; and maybe that is what our consciousness does (if it is a force of it’s own) when our body dies. Slips from one form of reality into another. Only ideas but to me to deny something is not very scientific. A scientist should always keep an open mind. With the discovery of the Higgs Boson and more exotic particles and the idea of supersymmetry kind of losing substance we are finding our ideas of reality are not what they seem. After all none of us actually touch anything, not the keys of our computers, our loved ones or the ground we stand on. It is the force between particles we “feel”. We don’t see either, our eyes are simple optical apparatus. Our eyes receives the light and our brains transfers this into information. As we are all different we could technically all be seeing something different even though we are looking at the same things. However that is another topic. Scientific philosophy is cool but as I have stated before we need proper research before we start discounting “ghosts” exist. I think ghosts are very real. Just not your standard image of dead person coming back from the grave. I could be wrong though. However keeping an open mind is better than a closed one. Less chance of getting egg on your face too. Nobody has seen dark matter either just the effects. When people see ghosts it effects them should we just dismiss this simply out of belief? We want to see something but the majority of those who dismiss it are not even looking. And just like dark matter there is nothing conclusive but because science says there “must” be something we accept it. How is that any more logical. People used to scoff at ball lightning too at one point too. Not so much these days.

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    • eworkflow said

      Well said. Contrary to a common position of sceptics, there is absolutely no sense in assuming that all fake mediums, paranormal hoaxes and alike fabrications prove anything except their own existence. It is equally fair to demand a proof of existence of ghosts as it is to request a proof of their non-existence. As a matter of fact, only the proof of non-existence would be absolute in its scope.

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    • Marc said

      Hi Daynon, apparently there is a logical explanation for why you’d see a white light on the moment of your death. Apparently the part of your brain responsible for sight is the first part of the brain to die when a person is dieing. So as the sight dimminishes you are more unable to distinguish what you see until all you see is light until it also gets smaller and dissapears. I don’t know the facts for certain, but I had read this somewhere before.

      Hope that helps somewhat.

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  16. physicist said

    WOW I cant believe how stupid this argument is … yes Einstein did state that energy conserves in our universe.. do u even know what energy is? Energy is not “in our body” like a supposedly a “SOUL”.energy is nothing near soul. Energy that humans have is contained in chemical form so its part of our body. These chemical dont disappear when u die. They stay in u. Think about it. If u die and a lion eats u then that lion will obtain energy. According to u that lion wont obtain energy by eating the corpse hahaha. Reason why we arent conscious and mobile is because molacular structure of the brain changes when blood circulation gets impeded which makes u loose consciousness. Cant believe there r ppl reading this and thinking its logical.

  17. Jeff said

    Ghosts ARE real. Over the centuries billions of people have seen them. However WHAT ghosts are should be debated. Personally I don’t think they are spirits or demons. Are they waking dreams (like I believe the one I saw was), are they projections from within the mind hence why usually only one sees, timeslips, interdimensional beings or some other form of physics related entity.
    The reason I don’t think it is a soul (if souls exist) is because if I was dead I certainly wouldn’t want to haunt a place, murdered or not because if my consciousness exists beyond death then it would still be me and over time even if not straight away I would realize I was dead and move on. Said and done there truly isn’t enough evidence for or against ghosts other than what people say. Scientifically there is no hard evidence as such, however we know black holes exist, we presume dark matter exists and yet nobody not even in the scientific community can tell us exactly what these are. Dark matter we accept as real even though there is literally NO evidence to support it.
    I find the problem is there is not enough research into ghosts done. The fact there has been so many sightings over the centuries PROVES ghosts are real, what is doesn’t prove is what they are. We need real scientific research to find that answer.

  18. Woody said

    Hi Jeff
    Why does so many sightings over the centuries PROVE ghosts are real?
    So many futuristic flying machines obviously involving amazingly advanced or paranormal technology have been reported over the centuries. So were dragons reported (more commonly in previous centuries). Many reported cryptids have been sighted (more accurately, many have been REPORTED).
    While on the subject, what real scientific research could answer the question of ghosts? Are we to measure evidence for ghosts in electro-magnetic fields? Areas of temperature variation within a building? Unknown heat signatures? These things may form the ‘evidence’ on ghost shows but we are unable to conclusively attribute these findings (which can be detected in almost any building) to the presence of ghosts.
    Your comment was thoughtful and I appreciate your views on the nature of ghosts, but I think that views and speculation are all that can be listed about them since we don’t have the shown measurable realities to test and without anything to test, how can we do real scientific research which is not just careful, critical and observant study of ghost sighting reports?

    All the best,

  19. Jeff said

    @ Woody. Same can be said about you Woody. You quickly dismiss peoples comments/ accounts and yet cannot prove it either. Yes cryptids HAVE been spotted and some like the Kraken have recently been proven to exist (Giant Squid). The Mountain Gorilla was also a cryptid story till it was finally discovered. UFO’s too DO exist. What they are is what needs to be studied NOT that they exist. UFO after all means unidentified flying object. There is certainly enough circumstantial evidence to say there is a real phenomena but what is , whether there is one explanation or more is like ghosts to be proven. As for your Dragons it is quite possible that dragons DID exist but not fire breathing monsters per say but as possibly the last few pockets of dinosaurs. Instead of dismissing a phenomena maybe it should be researched. The easy answer is always it doesn’t exist.
    I NEVER said that ghosts were spirits of people living beyond death I said ghosts WERE real as in the sense there is a real phenomena that warrants scientific study. Nothing gets explained or understood without being studied.
    I agree about the shows on ghosts don’t do credit to the study of ghosts. Also IF ghosts are a psychological or inter-dimensional with further study we may be able to prove what ghosts are. I merely said ghosts are real as there is a very real phenomena at play and that could stem from psychological conditions, electro-magnetic anomalies that could cause conditions in the mind or the actual landscape in which the phenomena is experienced like warping time and space in that area to allow a wavelength to see things that technically don’t exist in that time and place.
    Like I said I don’t believe they are souls of people trapped eternally here on earth (I could be wrong but that is what I believe) but to dismiss ghosts as a phenomena I cannot do either. All those people living and gone over the centuries that have seen these things cannot all be lying or mistaken. Rather than thinking people are making stuff up all the time or too stupid to know what they saw maybe as scientists not believers or disbelievers we should approach the taboo of ghosts and study it instead of simply dismissing because that is the easy answer.
    We cannot see Dark Matter or Dark Energy and in truth no one has ever observed the electron and yet we accept that these exist because science says they have too. As a scientist myself I find it very hypocritical of our community to dismiss something out of hand regardless of how many accounts simply on a belief system there is no evidence. Truth is there is no concrete evidence and no hard evidence yet because until we know exactly what we are dealing with how can we? If you think ghosts are simply souls then yes it is near impossible to find evidence with current science to gauge this as they may operate in a realm outside our own. However if it is psychological or an environmental condition then we should in time be able to come to conclusions with this.
    All I was saying is ghosts are real as in the sense there is a real phenomena. Nothing more and nothing less. I find as a race we simply dismiss things out of ignorance and biased opinion. Centuries ago people believed the earth was flat and now we know we know we live on a globe. However even to this day some people still believe the earth is flat, only six thousand years old and that there is no other life in the universe other than on earth. Which if you hadn’t seen recently that the comet we landed on has sent back information saying it has found evidence of the basic building blocks to life upon it’s surface.
    And just like this evidence scientists are now leaning towards the multiverse and inter-dimensions entwined with our own to explain quantum mechanics. There is no real smoking gun yet to prove any of this but just like ghosts with more study maybe we can understand what is going on. Who knows maybe ghosts are beings just like you and I which just happen to “pass” through our universe from their universe or their time to ours due to some electro-magnetic anomaly, that appears on earth or in the space we travel through which could give rise to some if not all of these odd experiences (including maybe some of the cryptics that are seen) and we find that science like always triumphs and explains what is going on.
    There truly is no such thing as Supernatural. It is just nature we cannot explain just yet. As with all great scientists who make an impact, our community should think out of the box. We should rise to the challenge and instead of saying NO it doesn’t exist because there is no evidence we should be saying things like lets discover what this phenomena is and find an answer. When all possible answers have been explored and concluded only then can we say it doesn’t exist. Until then people should stop saying things don’t exist especially when so many have seen things and be open and rise to the challenge.
    In the scientific community beyond the neutrinos, muons, electrons and gluons and all the other subatomic stuff of quantum physics there is some very cool and interesting stuff being discovered and I find it hard to dismiss out of hand phenomena simply because I cannot yet explain it.

    • Woody said

      Thanks for the reply, Jeff.
      I know that you don’t think ghost are the disembodied spirits of dead people, comments in your Nov 21 posting made that obvious. My sarcastic examples of how we may measure ghosts was a result of the ghost show crap that certain channels are riddled with. The sarcasm was not directed at you.
      I don’t dismiss things by habit, or look extra hard for bad reasons to support my scepticism. I like to work with the evidence. That which is available to me and hopefully finding out how I can examine evidence that is not commonly reported in relation to the subject.
      As a scientist you understand, more evidence is often found as time goes on. A look at the source and whatever critical examination has been done with the evidence can adjust my view. Good evidence has turned my view completely around in the past.
      Sceptical literature and blogs hosted by like-minded people has taught me the importance of logical enquiry, critical thinking and conclusions that are based only on the evidence. The many logical fallacies we keep suffering from (even though we don’t like to think that we do) and biases that are so natural in us. Studying the masses of supernatural or paranormal or wishful myths may even have added a dismissive tone to my words, but I reject nothing off-hand,
      I appreciate what you mean by the ability of science to show as real things that were only spoken of before (although the findings of what it is that is real are rarely ever as exciting and magical and enchanting as the version that existed before the scientific discovery.
      As a kid I read a lot of the supernatural / unknown mystery stuff and was excited into belief. The sheer number of reports, which I now usually refer to as anecdotes, they meant so much more before I had the chance to learn so much about belief, bias and hoaxing. I didn’t know then how bad human perception is or how bad our interpretations of those perceptions are.
      But still, it seemed to me as a child, as I read up on all this stuff, it can’t be long. science (as clueless as I thought it was at that age), will find more, will get closer to the truth and eventually show the reality of these things.
      About thirty years later, no better evidence of ghosts, visiting alien spacecraft, bigfoot, lake monsters or psuedo-medicines has appeared and now I have had the chance to look at the research that has been done historically and recently, in addition to the amount of hoaxing and use of bad science that have increased the myths so much.
      I must still say that I don’t know, I can’t go around believing things without appropriate evidence (no matter how much inappropriate evidence there is).
      I don’t know but what I do know is that (as you described), science advances, more evidence is discovered and the day may come when one or more of these things is actually shown to be real but probably in a very different form than people report or the slutty media has described.


  20. Jeff said

    Hi Woody,
    Thanx for the thoughtful and quick response to my response. I agree with you about much of what I read and believed in as a child as now been replaced with sceptism and I question every thing I hear, even my own experiences from past tense I have found more logical explanations like the apparition I saw in the bedroom I saw (in adulthood too) and because I woke suddenly I have put this down to a waking dream even though it moved, had eyes and my heart was racing. It could have been something else but I am leaning to waking dream because of the circumstances it seems more logical.
    I do feel that the magic you feel from these stories growing up certainly has more appeal, however no less fantastic than what we are learning now in science. The science we have now is amazing and just as mysterious and like you said could (and if I dare probably will) prove some if not most weird and fantastic stories of past encounters with strange and wondrous being that seem flights of fantasy at the moment – not necessarily as beings but effects from physics we don’t yet understand.
    Some things though I do think there is enough circumstantial evidence for serious research to be undertaken, other’s like Nessie have much more reason to exist for tourism/ profit than actually a creature existing there. Maybe there is but I feel this is a legend that was made real to boost tourism.
    Bigfoot could exist in the Pacific Northwest or other great forests but I feel unless real evidence is found it has to be held in high sceptism. I also feel that IF Bigfoot/ Sasquatch is discovered it is more likely to be a primate like the Mountain gorilla (which was also thought of as a legend until it’s discovery) than a living example of a missing link, Neanderthal or some other human relative.
    UFO’s I feel there is more evidence for than any other phenomena. There is also strong evidence of stuff happening (radioactive markings on the ground, multiple pilot and astronaut sightings, photo and video footage which cannot be easily dismissed), however like I stated WHAT they are is up for debate again as I feel with ghosts. I genuinely believe with both UFO’s and ghosts something real is at play, I feel though we definitely need more evidence (and something more concrete to remove all sceptism).
    I hope at some point in my life I get to see the answers to these mysteries.
    Thanx again Woody I enjoy the input.

    All The Best


  21. Nicholas said

    I can’t speak on scientific proof of ghost. But I always have been a staunch skeptic of ghost. That is until I experienced undisputable paranormal activity! I experienced many strange occurrence in my new residence. Of course I didn’t believe it was a ghost until the day I actually seen it! I know it’s unbelievable. It’s one of those things you will never believe until you experience it first hand but I assure you there is indeed a such things as ghost! This world and life is much more complex than we can ever understand!

  22. Janet said

    I dont pretend to know about physics. But I have captured pictures which can not be explained, had my hair stroked for about ten seconds, had doors open and close, been physically taken over to the point where i couldnt breath properly and other things. I am completely sane. i detest liars who fake pictures and stories on the subject. okay you dont believe, but i wont consider my experiences as pure fancy or over imagination. Some people have had genuine experiences wwhich dont leave us with much of a choice on the matter. live and let live.

  23. The human multicellular organism is what we call ghosts. We derive it right after being conceived as a fetus and we continue to have troughout our entire life. All I have learned is that our multicellular organism consists of a nucleus and the thalamus which is contained on our brainstem. The multicellular organism can survive and continue to exist even after death, it is what helps spirits manifest, or scientifically photosynthesize. We are able to absorb energy like a sponge continuously. It is literally in physics, biology, quantum physics and meta physics. Please feel free to research on this whole subject. Our nucleus is where energy is received and stored and let out. I haven’t came to a full conclusion on what the thalamus does. That is all I have for now thank you

  24. Hi again this tcorrell721, I just wanted to add that the electromagnetic field surrounding us and our Earth is a lot of why we can detect our multicellular organism. It becomes photosynthetic to everything surrounding them. We hear and feel them ( sometimes very well ) through frequenies and wavelengths I have studied on this has hard as I could and I also have Photos that I have taken that I personally believe show proof. Also I strongly believe it abides by the laws of physics, if you would like to see some of my pics please email me, Thank you.

  25. Jessie L said

    I have not met a ghost yet. Nevertheless, I know that thousands of scientists are working on near-death studies that proved the existences of soul, transformation, and afterlife. If you are not a scientist, please read some research papers at . Maybe you would re-think laws of modern physics.

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