2006-12-05 03:21:58 · 11 answers · asked by jacob v 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a scientifically unsubstantiated hypothesis that suggests the burning of a person's body without an external source of ignition. Although there is much speculation and controversy over SHC, it is not a proven natural occurrence. In spite of this, many theories and hypotheses have attempted to explain SHC's existence and how it may occur, some grounded in current scientific understanding. The two most common explanations offered to account for apparent SHC are each discussed below: the non-spontaneous "wick effect" fire, and the rare discharge called "static flash fires".
2006-12-05 03:24:47 · answer #1 · answered by Faith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There has never been an actual documented case of "spontaneous human combustion." All of the so-called "evidence" is second-hand stories and supposed "eyewitness" accounts from dubious sources. That doesn't make it impossible, just highly unlikely. If it were a real phenomenon, surely it would have happened at *some* point where it could be properly documented by now...
Check out the link below.
2006-12-05 03:25:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an entire part of the e book referenced below is taken to conceal Spontaneous Combustion. i will first quote from the creation. situations of Spontaneous Human Combustion began to seem in medical comments as a procedures decrease back because the seventeenth century, and with the aid of the twentieth century the literature abounded in specified debts of inexplicable human incineration. Over a span of four centuries more desirable than 2 hundred incidents were stated. In 1952 Mrs. Mary Reeser change into decreased to ashes in her undamaged living house. This change into the first case the position cutting-aspect medical forensics were used and the the police were the first to enter the living house, then the forensics human beings. After a three hundred and sixty 5 days of testing that lined the FBI labs, there change into no "logical for reason for demise" got here upon. One reputable stated, Jokingly, "If this change into the sixteenth century i'd be howling WitchCraft and Black Magick."
2016-11-23 18:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by klitzner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rogers' theory on spontaneous human combustion states that when two or more neural impulses(the "I forgot what I was just thinking" impulses) converge within the hypothalamus, traveling at the immense speed of neural impulse, with a given neural charge(chemically generated electrical impulse) combustion occurs. Sometimes it is only a "hot flash", less frequently a catastrophic truckle ignition.
2006-12-05 05:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by Robster01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need an igniter; lightning is a good one. Then gas is good after you ignited to. Even if you catch on fire there must be really no water left in you to burn. Even fat people have in the lipid cells water, so is difficult to produce this effect on them too. People can not spontaneous combust. So you have to live with this. In a way look on the bright side you will not die from this. It’s shore looks nice on TV but we live in the real world so get use to it.
2006-12-05 04:03:23 · answer #5 · answered by aristidetraian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch the next episode of "Heroes" and you'll find out!
2006-12-05 03:23:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find wikipedia's article on this phenomenon useful.
2006-12-05 03:23:37 · answer #7 · answered by Not_Here 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google it
2006-12-05 03:23:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what you are looking for,but i've seen stuff about it on t.v.It's interesting,i hope i never see the real thing.
2006-12-05 03:27:27 · answer #9 · answered by Annabelle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://skepdic.com/shc.html
2006-12-05 03:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋