an intelligent but superstitious man advances this analogy to argue that GHOSTS exist even though no one has ever seen one. how will you refute his arguement?
2006-08-08 18:17:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
electrons are too small to see even with the most powerful microscope, but it's effects could be tested and applied to real life inventions (nuclear power, atomic bomb, etc)... but such is not the same case for ghost, i would be a believer if the effects of ghosts can be tests and somehow utilized the same way as the knowledge gained from studying electrons...
2006-08-08 18:24:15 · answer #1 · answered by rei 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief has nothing to do with it. We have emperical evidence as to the existance of electrons, and their effects can be seen in pretty much all modern electronics. What do you think you are seeing when you look at a TV? A bunch of electrons colliding with a piece of filiment to produce light, thats what you are seeing. Ghosts, however, do not have emperical evidence to support their existance. There is the fundemental difference between science and most everything else. You philosophers who have lost your way, please go back to your own funny little world, or better yet, discover the world around you. You might be suprised by just how much information can be had by just opening your eyes.
2006-08-09 01:55:44 · answer #2 · answered by Roger N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its easy, the they have conducted experiments in which electrons are sent through a double slit at photographic paper, and slowly the effect of many electrons hitting the paper over time are seen. Of course the purpose of this experiment had nothing to do with proving electrons but it is pretty solid evidence for them.
2006-08-09 01:35:55 · answer #3 · answered by abcdefghijk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who told you that no one has ever seen ghost?
Our sense of sight is not the only organ that we could use to prove the existence of something.
Try to touch an uninsulated cable connected to a 220V line and surely you could prove electrons are there.
2006-08-09 01:30:21 · answer #4 · answered by cooler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think elecron microscopes have been observing electrons since the early 50'6, but might be wrong. I believe that was the whole purpose until they discovered they could only discern one aspect or another at a time from the "observed" electron (i.e. spin, velocity, etc.)
2006-08-09 01:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by dlfield 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A ghost is evidence of the presence of a physical entity after it is no longer present, example: A fingerprint is a ghost. There are many many examples of ghosts. A "supernatural" ghost is not supernatural, just "not within our current understanding.
2006-08-09 01:46:27 · answer #6 · answered by Sleeping Troll 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though we are not seeing air we feel its presence.
Even though we are not seeing light and other electro-magnetic radiation we feel them, (television, cell phone etc.)
The fact is we are able to harness them to our needs.
If ghosts exist and if they can be harnessed there is nothing wrong in believing it.
But it must be universal and any lay man must be capable of using the ghosts.
2006-08-09 02:43:32 · answer #7 · answered by Pearlsawme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why refute? I agree. Have you ever seen God?
2006-08-09 01:22:48 · answer #8 · answered by Diane D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lool dude u cant observe electron microscopes to observe electrons
2006-08-09 04:52:57 · answer #9 · answered by de5tiny06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋