Anyone else heard of your soul weighing 21 grams. I saw something on the history channel I think about a doctor during the 1800's who ran a sanitarium for people with TB, since he had so many people about to die he started to weigh them at the moment of death on a bed scale, he found that the human body lost between 15-21 grams. Bed scales would weigh any bodily functions released by the body. Have you heard of any other info on the 21 gram theory, oh I know it was used as a title to a drug war movie, thanks
2006-12-08 09:05:47 · 10 answers · asked by feargov 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1. A bed scale would catch all fluids released at death 2. a breath of air does no weigh that much 3. 21 grams is the same as 4 nickels.
2006-12-08 09:14:29 · update #1
ok, guys, this is pure science so bare with me. the human bosy conains lots of ENERGY, which most definatly has WEIGHT, this is VERY VERY PROVABLE, this is not my fantasy, it is a PROVEN QUANTUM MECHANICAL FACT. EVERY ATOM AND ELECTRON IN YOU BODY WEIGHS SOMETHING< SO WHEN THE BULK OF THAT ENERGY LEAVS YOUR BODY AT DEATH, THE TOTAL BODY WEIGHT IS REDUCED, THE AMOUNT OF WHICH IS DETERMINED BY HOW MUCH ENERGY WAS IN THE BODY. (NOT ALL BATTERIES ARE CHARGES EQUALLY,(THIS PART IS MY PERSONAL EDUCATED OPINION< STILL BASED ON SCIENTIFIC QUANTUM PRINCIPAL) THE SOUL< IS A WEGHTLESS< TIMELESS< TOTAL LACK OF MOVEMENT OR MASS< IT IS THE SOURCE OF ENERGY AND MASS< SO YES< YOU DO LOSE ANYWARE FROM 15 grams to 3 pounds when you die,(BACK TO FACTS AGAIN) but it IS NOT the SOUL LEAVINg THE BODY, it your enrgetic mass leaving the body as it discharges
2006-12-08 10:15:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air weighs 21 grams??? I will have to try this. Weigh a balloon, record its weight..... blow it up and weigh it again.
Air is mostly weightless
And I dont think any 'soul' weighs 21 grams
I think its due to loss of FLUIDS. That is if the '21 gram loss at death' statement is actually true in most cases.
Also, when a person dies I am pretty sure they continuously lose weight untill they are just a skeleton, so where is the cut of time of weighing these dead people.?
OK so bed scales would catch the fluids... but not all. Dont forget evaporation. Maybe 21 grams is easy and quickly evaporated. Maybe we are doing that right now.
Pluss these 'Bed scales' would have to be pretty bloody good.
2006-12-08 09:10:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, 21 grams of air would be about 3/4 gram-mole of N2 or about 16.8 liters of gas - people just don't have that much air in them.
Second, the weight of air in somebody's lungs only counts if they (a) hold their breath and (b) compress the air in their lungs so it is more dense than the air their body displaces (archimedes principle - it works in gases as well as liquids).
Finally...I just don't know how well controlled that experiment was. I would presume that if there was some unaccounted for weight (it's not like the body is a closed system so a gram or two is just not going to be missed) that there was some better controlled experimentation to determine just how much it was - and honestly, I can't imagine every church in the world NOT touting the results, it would be proof of a soul. Didn't hear about it in sunday school so I'll just assume the scales were recalibrated, the experiment re-run and the original results discarded.
2006-12-08 09:25:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true that when somebody dies instantly 21 grams of weight leaves your body there isn't actually any scientific explanation for it. One explanation that has been made is that it is your soul but there isn't actually any evidence. Could be though, it's a nice idea.
2016-03-28 23:43:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're a bit confused. The last breath of air you expel when dying weighs 21 grams. I guess people warp that to be the soul when really it's just air.
And no bed scale would be that precise.
2006-12-08 09:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, I read that too. I think it was attributed to expulsion of air from the body. Besides, if you had a soul that weighed something, it wouldn't be spiritual - would it? It would have to be something physical.
2006-12-08 09:07:42 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard that before very bizarre I am open to the idea of that theory interesting because I always perceived our soul as energy...
2006-12-08 09:09:30 · answer #7 · answered by Happy2bAlive 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There being no such thing as a soul distinguisable from the body, no weight is attributable.
2006-12-08 09:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there are no scales for your soul or spirit.
2006-12-08 09:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah -air has a physical property... not your soul-that's metaphysical
2006-12-08 09:09:52 · answer #10 · answered by Art 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋