A friend and I are arguing over ghosts.

I think it’s akin to astrology, homeopathy and palm reading. He says there’s “convincing “ evidence for its existence. He also took up company time to make a meme to illustrate our relative positions. (See image)

(To be fair, I’m also on the clock right now)

What do you think?

  • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I mean there’s no way to go from immeasurable to measurable except in scale, and anywhere north of quantum scale, physics has been reliably predictable and measurable. Ghosts’ purported impact is on a scale well above that which is unexplained.

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      4 days ago

      Why do you say ghosts’ purported impact is on a scale above that which is unexplained?

      Quantum fields impact the universe on a scale above their own. It’s entirely possible that the explanation for ghosts is on the quantum scale or smaller, and the observable effects are just that: effects of a much subtler phenomenon.

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        4 days ago

        Yes, quantum scale has macro effect, but the macro scale is predictable and rigidly causal, negating any meaningful quantum scale interactional impact. A macro causation effected via quantum interactions is a de facto macro interaction.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      None of what you’ve said is n this thread makes any logical sense…

      Which would be fine cuz it’s about ghosts, but you keep acting like physics backs up your wild statements and made up vocabulary…