I don’t know of any scientific theories that prove that ghosts exist. BUT… that does not mean they dont exist or a theory will not be discovered!
There’s a saying that goes “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Which is a bit confusing but means with this example of ghosts that we can’t say for sure that they don’t exist because there is no hard evidence of that.
A basic scientific idea, as Kate says, is that anything is POSSIBLE until there is a REASON for it to be IMPOSSIBLE. This is not to say that everything that is possible is actually true.
On ghosts, it probably depends on what you mean by ‘a ghost’. Science provides plenty of reasons why “a ghost” CANNOT do certain things, such as throwing objects around.
There are, however, many particles (basic bits of matter or energy, like electrons), that physicists know DO exist, that have ghost-like properties. For example, particles called neutrinos can not only pass through thousands of kilometres of solid matter but also CHANGE THEIR IDENTITY (the same neutrino is sometimes a type-e neutrino, sometimes a type-t neutrino, and sometimes a type-m neutrino — as though a piece of fruit is sometimes an apple and sometimes a pear). Other particles, called ‘virtual particles’, can come into existence OUT OF NOTHING for short times.
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I don’t know of any scientific theories that prove that ghosts exist. BUT… that does not mean they dont exist or a theory will not be discovered!
There’s a saying that goes “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Which is a bit confusing but means with this example of ghosts that we can’t say for sure that they don’t exist because there is no hard evidence of that.
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A basic scientific idea, as Kate says, is that anything is POSSIBLE until there is a REASON for it to be IMPOSSIBLE. This is not to say that everything that is possible is actually true.
On ghosts, it probably depends on what you mean by ‘a ghost’. Science provides plenty of reasons why “a ghost” CANNOT do certain things, such as throwing objects around.
There are, however, many particles (basic bits of matter or energy, like electrons), that physicists know DO exist, that have ghost-like properties. For example, particles called neutrinos can not only pass through thousands of kilometres of solid matter but also CHANGE THEIR IDENTITY (the same neutrino is sometimes a type-e neutrino, sometimes a type-t neutrino, and sometimes a type-m neutrino — as though a piece of fruit is sometimes an apple and sometimes a pear). Other particles, called ‘virtual particles’, can come into existence OUT OF NOTHING for short times.
Science can be stranger than fiction!
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