[Editor]

Don't scientists have better things to study? Apparently not.

Horror stories may be the place for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they are not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou.

Source: http://cnews.canoe.c...2145439-ap.html

More than one in three Americans believe houses can be haunted, a 2005 Gallup poll showed. More than 20 per cent of Americans believe in witches and that people can communicate with the dead.

[Couer de l'Ange]

And they forgot to mention that anything scientists cannot explain therefore does not exist.

Don't you just love dogmas. If you want an enlightened view, talk to a nuclear physicist.

[Darkness]

Couer de l, on Oct 30 2006, 07:02 AM, said:

And they forgot to mention that anything scientists cannot explain therefore does not exist.

Don't you just love dogmas. If you want an enlightened view, talk to a nuclear physicist.

I would love to, but I don't know any. :unsure:

[Couer de l'Ange]

Sire, on Oct 30 2006, 12:17 PM, said:

I would love to, but I don't know any. :unsure:

Well saying that, I get an earful on the other hand... my girlfriend is one... :fear:

[megaera_estufaine]

Go info for anyone who's interrested! A witch is also a term for Wiccans and Pagans. In the case that people believe in witches, they should. Normal people are considered witches. As to the myth that witches can fly; they can't actually fly. Witches used to make an ointment made of various alchemical items such as nightshade or somesuch (I haven't made it yet, it sounds like a trip!) They would rub this ointment on their bodies and do a ritual of jumping through corn and wheat fields with their brooms naked. That's where people get the flying thing; it makes the witches feel like they're flying. I wouldn't suggest trying it unless you're really good with potions, otherwise you might poison yourself.

[Couer de l'Ange]

megaera_estufaine, on Nov 10 2006, 01:04 AM, said:

Go info for anyone who's interrested! A witch is also a term for Wiccans and Pagans. In the case that people believe in witches, they should. Normal people are considered witches. As to the myth that witches can fly; they can't actually fly. Witches used to make an ointment made of various alchemical items such as nightshade or somesuch (I haven't made it yet, it sounds like a trip!) They would rub this ointment on their bodies and do a ritual of jumping through corn and wheat fields with their brooms naked. That's where people get the flying thing; it makes the witches feel like they're flying. I wouldn't suggest trying it unless you're really good with potions, otherwise you might poison yourself.

You sure your not referring to magic mushrooms... :laugh:

[passingover]

Darkness, on Oct 27 2006, 06:39 PM, said:

Don't scientists have better things to study? Apparently not.

Horror stories may be the place for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they are not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou.

Source: http://cnews.canoe.c...2145439-ap.html

More than one in three Americans believe houses can be haunted, a 2005 Gallup poll showed. More than 20 per cent of Americans believe in witches and that people can communicate with the dead.

This guy has been very busy I see....
It'd be fun to take one of his courses, but i think i might be too old now. :(

This post has been edited by passingover: 10 November 2006 - 07:54 PM

[Throne777]

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Using science and math, Efthimiou explains why it is that ghosts cannot walk among us while also gliding through walls, like Patrick Swayze in the movie "Ghost."

That violates Newton's law of action and reaction. If ghosts walk, their feet apply force to the floor, but if they go through walls they are without substance, the professor says.

:laugh:
That's priceless!

Throne777

[Vore]

Sire, on Oct 30 2006, 12:17 PM, said:

I would love to, but I don't know any. :unsure:

I do...More specificaly though I know a guy with a PHd in quantum physics who rides a unicycle around town...

He respects the fact that I'm in a paranormal investigation society...Has even suggested several baffling theories as to why you'd get ghosts...There are thousands of theories...Some impossible to measure as yet...Such as those that look into spacetime anomalies etc..

[BlackBladeGroM]

Couer de l, on Nov 10 2006, 07:17 PM, said:

You sure your not referring to magic mushrooms... :laugh:

Shroomz 4evA!!!!
Weed can help too...

[Rob_Vermon]

In my eyes, this guy was just thinking on scientific terms. What about things that cannot be explained with a scientific test or theory? There is still so much we don't even know about our own planet! We know more about space than we do our own oceans. So who's to say we don't know all we can about the paranormal.

[The Eternal]

Well, what it should be is that no test so far has fully concluded that these do not exist. Rather they would say, that there has yet to be proof. So we can gather it as what they should say is, "All our tests have came up negative for proving they exist, how ever, this means that there is reasonable doubt to believe they exist, and a step further, no proof has been presented to acknowledge their existence."

Eh, but i guess thats what you pay scientists for...to tell people the obvious.