Bloody ghost!!

[Trunks]

If ghosts exist, why aren't they everywhere? Why cant they be proven scientifically?

If you look at the latest experiments in the field of quantum mechanics, its proving virtually impossible to measure the Higgs particle, because [FONT=arial, sans-serif]the instant it finds itself in existence, it disappears!

What about dark matter? Scientists know it exists, because they can see its effect on gravity - but they can't see it, and haven't found a way to measure it.

I find it funny that so many people will entertain the idea that dark matter exists, but not ghosts.

Come to think of it...

... Maybe dark matter is just all the ghosts for the last million years [/FONT]

 

[Bushwhacker]

"What about dark matter? Scientists know it exists, because they can see its effect on gravity"
"I find it funny that so many people will entertain the idea that dark matter exists, but not ghosts."
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Ermm.... You've answered your own question there.

 

[Trunks]

Ermm.... You've answered your own question there.

Glad you agree

If a ghost turns a tap (etc)on, but you can't see the ghost, using the same rationale as above, then a ghost is as plausible a reason as dark matter is to bending gravity.

 

[santaman2000]

Mine isn't a belief system it's scientific fact.

As any self respectoing scientist knows, there's no such thing as "scientific fact." New discovery inevitably overturns previously held "facts."

 

[Bushwhacker]

A ghost turned on a tap? That's just brilliant. Brilliant and pointless.

 

[Trunks]

A ghost turned on a tap? That's just brilliant. Brilliant and pointless.

If you have a better explanation as to how four taps turned themselves on while i stood next to them taking a leak, i'd love to hear it...

 

[santaman2000]

A ghost turned on a tap? That's just brilliant. Brilliant and pointless.

Whether ghosts exist or not; whether it was a ghost that turned on the taps are not; I have a question. Why does something (anything) have to have a point to exist? I think we all agree dogs exist; what's the point? Monkeys that we supposedly evolved from exist; what's the point? Wouldn't the universe be here with or without dogs? With or without monkeys? With or without us? What's the point in the universe existing? Apparently all these things do exist but what's the point?

 

[shaggystu]

If you have a better explanation as to how four taps turned themselves on while i stood next to them taking a leak, i'd love to hear it...

they were all already turned on but the water had been turned off further down the line, at a stop tap maybe, the stop tap was turned on and water started running from all four taps simultaneously?

edit; i've just re-read your original account of the ghostly taps and apparently it took place whilst you were away at a cadet camp. my explanation for anything at all odd that happened during that trip would be exactly the same, elaborate practical joke. IME all cadets are evil little gits, and air cadets are clever little gits, evil+clever+away from home for the weekend=many many elaborate practical jokes

 

[mountainm]

If you have a better explanation as to how four taps turned themselves on while i stood next to them taking a leak, i'd love to hear it...

All the atoms in the handle on the tap oscilllated in the same direction at the same time. Just as likely as a ghost. Just as unlikely too.

 

[spandit]

Monkeys that we supposedly evolved from exist

No they don't. Both us and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. Sorry, just being pedantic

 

[Grendel]

Regarding the taps where they those automatic sensor type?
They could of already been turned on but the water presure too low for them to run untill you turned the tap on the end?

 

[mountainm]

No they don't. Both us and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. Sorry, just being pedantic

A lemur type thingy. But there's no reason why that couldn't still exist. Just because species B evolves from species A doesn't mean that species A dissapears.

 

[santaman2000]

A lemur type thingy. But there's no reason why that couldn't still exist. Just because species B evolves from species A doesn't mean that species A dissapears.

Exactly. Hence there are still wolves although dogs evolved from domesticated wolves.

 

[Retired Member southey]

where are the naughty Cavemen ghosts!

 

[santaman2000]

where are the naughty Cavemen ghosts!

Haunting the caves in the Arizona desert?

 

[mountainm]

where are the naughty Cavemen ghosts!

Why do cavemen ghosts have to be naughty? My spirit guide "UgUg" takes great exception to that comment.

 

[Retired Member southey]

else if they were well behaved they could he moved up to another plain,

 

[mountainm]

else if they were well behaved they could he moved up to another plain,

Dude - they live in caves - hence "cavemen" - nomads live on plains.... sheeesh.

 

[shaggystu]

Dude - they live in caves - hence "cavemen" - nomads live on plains.... sheeesh.

Could be a spirit cave, I imagine they're fairly portable

Stuart

 

[mountainm]

Could be a spirit cave, I imagine they're fairly portable

Stuart

Given a spirit can walk through stuff - what's the utility of a cave?