[ExI] Paranormal activity?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Everything is physics; then it's chemistry; then it's biology; then it's
psychology, the be-all end-all.  ��  bill w

On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 12:23 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> A nebulous statement.   Perhaps ghosts are logically sound and we just
> don't understand the physics yet.  We don't understand consciousness, dark
> matter, dark energy, the fate of the universe, etc.
>
> I wouldn't be that surprised if a phenomenon that has been reported for
> millennia turns out to have an explanation rooted in physics.  Perhaps not
> this video, but it's certainly logically possible.  We know very little
> about reality, all things considered.
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 1:08 PM Angel Z. Lopez via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Everything has a logical explanation.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
>>> BillK via extropy-chat
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> >...Photographic orbs are a well-known phenomena that have been around
>>> almost as long as cameras. ... but people in the room don't see them.
>>> They
>>> appear to move as the dust mote drifts around in the air near the camera.
>>> This is one of many articles explaining what is going on--
>>> <http://www.paullee.com/ghosts/orbs.html>
>>>
>>> BillK
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> This can be demonstrated with the proper lighting and a roll of toilet
>>> paper.  The material that settles on our furniture we call dust isn't
>>> really
>>> dust for the most part in most parts of the country.  Places where it
>>> rains
>>> often still have that phenomenon, even though rain knocks down actual
>>> dust
>>> particles outdoors.  A lot of what we call dust is actually toilet paper
>>> lint.  I saw a YouTube video where someone demonstrated jillions of these
>>> linty particles go airborne every time you rip off a few in the bathroom.
>>> This also explains why the bathroom gets linty faster than the more
>>> remote
>>> rooms in the house.  If you wear cotton clothing, that contributes as
>>> well:
>>> individual fibers from the cotton will constantly be breaking off and
>>> floating about.
>>>
>>> A near-field object in a camera lens can do exactly what John
>>> describes.  Of
>>> course it could be the ghosts arranged for that explanation to cover
>>> their
>>> evanescent tracks, the sneaky bastards.
>>>
>>> Easy experiment: set up the camera which took the ghost images, set up
>>> another camera right beside it with those modern nifty small apertures,
>>> like
>>> the ones on your Apple phone, see if the ghost only appears in the large
>>> aperture camera.
>>>
>>> spike
>>>
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