What exactly do people call "spirit"
2006-09-05 00:37:41 · 8 answers · asked by falowofemi 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It's the lack in (discontinuity of) the scientific theories that causes those ideas to occur...
2006-09-05 00:42:23 · answer #1 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kirilian photography is not science and proves nothing and has been discredited.
The body, like all processes, has to take in energy (i.e. eat) to sustain its functioning. All the materials the body takes in is either burned as caloric energy for the body, is stored as fat, or is expelled. There is no missing magical mass. By the way this goes for gasses (oxygen and nitrogen e.g) and fluids.
blueberry_yum_yum is also incorrect about the body mass loss after death. The average human male weighs about 200 lbs or ~90 KG (90000 grams). If a person loses a "few (1-2?)" grams of body mass, you are talking about less than 0.005% of the mass of the body. This loss is easily explained by the loss of moisture through evaporation and other gasses that the body would ordinarily lose since a dead body is no longer taking in moisture or breathing air to sustain its supply.
Gruffalo has it right on. There is no scientific hypothesis to support the supernatural, because the supernatural, if it exists, is inherently untestable and hence unscientific.
2006-09-05 01:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by DrSean 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
keiraebony has a good explanation behind the science and reasoning of a spirit or what is considered supernatural. Since energy is not destroyed or created, it must transfer to a different form or at least still exist in this universe. The energy from our soul is either reincarnated in another body or exists somehwere in this realm. They have proven that the moment a person dies, the persons body weight decreases by a few grams. they think these few grams of weight are the energy leaving the body.
2006-09-05 01:22:39 · answer #3 · answered by blueberry-yum-yum! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ok, bear with me...
We all know that energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred into potential, kinetic etc. The theory behind the supernatural is that the bodies energy that can't be destroyed when the physical body dies is stored in your aura, of which pictures can be taken (look at kirilian photography). This energy can sometimes become earthbound and its the energy stored in the auras that is supposed to be their 'spirit'. If the energy is not earthbound, then you are supposed to be reborn, but can still access past lives through the memory of the aura
Scientists can measure changes to the environment, but cannot explain it sufficiently enough to refer to this as anything other that 'supernatural' or 'spiritualist'. BTW, I'm not religious or spiritualist, just know alot of useless stuff!
2006-09-05 00:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by keiraebony 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, thats just it, you see, hence the definition of the word 'supernatural' - which literally means unnatural and unexplainable!
So there is no scientific theorum for anything that is classified supernatural, as by its very definition, it is 'that which cannot be explained by science!
People generally refer to the soul of a departed person when they refer to 'spirit'. It is a spiritualist term.
2006-09-05 00:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by gruffalo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Supernature is the power of human mind which works with intuition on ether.
2006-09-05 02:23:06 · answer #6 · answered by d1hossain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows...
Life goes on without theories to back it up, however.
2006-09-05 00:49:42 · answer #7 · answered by philr999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
load of crap
2006-09-06 21:42:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋