[ExI] CERN has proved ghosts don't exist

[Adrian Tymes]

As noted in the comments, first you have to define what ghosts are.
Unless you can rigorously show that what you are disproving includes
all possible models of "ghosts", you have nothing to start from.

(TBH, a more rigorous exclusion of ghosts would come from biology.  If
ghosts are energy patterns left over (from what animates the body)
after death - well, "left over" means they were around during life,
right?  And if they were part of what animates the body, we can show
conclusively 100% of what does that, and that none of that sticks
around for long once the body shuts down completely, nor does it go
anywhere: it just discorporates as the substrate stops working, not
unlike software in a CPU that's being melted down.)

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 4:07 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?
>
> By Ross Pomeroy
> February 16, 2017
>
> <http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/02/16/has_the_large_hadron_collider_disproved_the_existence_of_ghosts.html>
>
> Quotes:
> Much of the general public probably isn't aware of these fascinating,
> yet unfortunately, esoteric discoveries at the LHC. Particle physics
> simply doesn't inspire as much interest as say, ghosts. At least four
> in ten Americans believe in ghosts, and it's likely that even fewer
> people are aware of the LHC. On that note, at least one physicist
> contends that the LHC has, in fact, disproved the existence of ghosts.
>
> On a recent broadcast of BBC Radio Four's The Infinite Monkey Cage
> centered around science and the paranormal, Cox had this to say on the
> topic:
> "Before we ask the first question, I want to make a statement: We are
> not here to debate the existence of ghosts because they don't exist."
>
> He continued:
> "If we want some sort of pattern that carries information about our
> living cells to persist then we must specify precisely what medium
> carries that pattern and how it interacts with the matter particles
> out of which our bodies are made. We must, in other words, invent an
> extension to the Standard Model of Particle Physics that has escaped
> detection at the Large Hadron Collider. That's almost inconceivable at
> the energy scales typical of the particle interactions in our bodies."
> ---------
>
> BillK
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