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Originally posted by skullfunk
The description of ghosts seems to defy any physics we know. Therefore, our physics is inadequate or ghosts really don't exist.
However, if we are to keep within physics as we know it, ghosts cannot be composed of energy because, as Einstein put it, energy IS mass. And the issue of ghosts having mass is the whole reason I'm confused.
Also think about this: if ghosts come from humans and have mass, where were they when the person was alive? A dead person must lose weight upon death.
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Not wanting to turn this into the philosophy board, but Einstein actually said that mass is made of energy. Different thing entirely. Houses are made of bricks, but you cant live in a brick. Remember that he also showed that there are quanta of energy (later to be known as photons) which act as if they have zero mass.
Einstein made some very important adjustments to our model of the universe, but others have been made since. The guys at CERN have recently detected what is probably a Higgs Boson, the particle that gives mass to other particles.
So when I was talking about a phase of matter that we didn't understand, I was thinking of something like matter with all the Higgs Bosons stripped out.
This is all pseudoscience, of course, but we are in paranoia.
The link below might interest you (if only for the writing style.) Make of it what you will.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp