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Originally Posted by kach22i
So in other words you are not playing around with particle accelerators and lasers?
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No, that's exactly what we're playing with. Our (mankind's) understanding of particle accelerators is pretty good. We're reliably accelerating a 1.4 MW beam of protons to about 90% of the speed of light here. We even have to take quantum effects into account due to the slow speed that our neutrons are traveling. We're stripping electrons off of negatively charged hydrogen ions (a proton with two electrons) using lasers and we understand that, so we're playing with that stuff.
Finding phenomena that "appears" to violate our current understanding of the standard model (according to one of the links you posted) is a long way from any sort of evidence that ghosts exist. And while I realize that was not your point...the fact that we don't know everything doesn't mean that we don't know anything and that we must therefore appeal to the supernatural for things we don't understand.
To me, this talk of ghosts represents man's attempt to explain a phenomenon that he doesn't understand. That people often revert to "supernatural" explanations - to me - demonstrates the "primitive" portions of our brains. Throughout history, this is what people did - when they were confronted by things they didn't understand, they assumed that because they didn't understand it, the explanation must be something that is unexplainable (a "supernatural" explanation). History has shown us, though, that once we figure out an explanation for something, 100% of the time that explanation is natural.
If we ever come up with an explanation for why people experience ghosts, I am confident that explanation will be a natural one.