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- From: antennae@gn.apc.org
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Ghostbusters
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:08:00 GMT
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- Nf-From: gn.UUCP!antennae Nov 21 23:08:00 1992
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- My 7 year old son won't go upstairs on his own because he is afraid
- of ghosts. I told him I'd give him a 'charm' to scare them off and
- found a tiny, beautifully carved and painted, soapstone tiger which
- seems to have done the trick.
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- Can you physicists do as well?
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- 1) For the purposes of the exercise, assume that ghosts exist and
- manifest themselves in the ways so often described - shimmering figures
- that vanish through solid materials and into thin air - apparitions
- dressed in long-outmoded fashions - sensations of coldness - noises -
- objects moved apparently by themselves.
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- 2) Can anyone suggest an explanation for any/all of these phenomena
- that arises out of physics rather than metaphysics?
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- The purpose of this? Not to prove that ghosts exist - I don't care
- whether they do or not - but to see how inventive physicists can be.
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- Indra
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