[Josy]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Once again LT, you are riding your two favourite high horses: 'Pedantics' and 'Terminology'.

Light is an electromagnetic wave. Starlight, Infra Red light, Light in the visible spectrum, Ultra Violet light, X-Rays, Gamma Rays etc - it's all radiant energy. So, the Starlight which we see in the night sky which has radiated from a 'long-dead star' is technically a 'ghost', and all I am saying; is that, why isn't it possible that some - as yet undiscovered - form of 'radiant energy leaves the human body upon 'death' -- a form of radiant energy which certain people in certain circumstances are able to perceive?

Just as radio and television waves are still there when our radios and TV's are switched 'off', then perhaps these radiant energy waves which have left a deceased person could be still there - silent and invisible, just like radio, TV and other energy waves.

And just as all radios and TV's have the 'potential' to 'receive' these waves but need to be 'switched on' and precisely 'tuned' in order to do so, then perhaps all human brains have the potential to receive 'dead human radiant energy waves' but similarly need the brain to be in a state of precise 'tuning', and the environmental conditions outside of the brain to be in 'harmonious synch' in order to enable such reception. Perhaps when such conditions are 'perfect' then the subject can and will perceive that 'dead human radiant energy' which we have come to term; 'ghosts'.

Just to spoil your day LT and have you scurrying to research 'May–September 1988 Radio Carbon Dating Test' I wholeheartedly believe that this 'emission' of 'dead human radiant energy' - only a trillion times stronger in magnitude - was what occurred when the Christ 'rose from the dead' and caused the image on the burial cloth which we call 'The Shroud of Turin'.

But that's a whole other complex, and long and lengthy thread. (which will no doubt elicit purely intelligent, civil, discussion and relevant responses with no irrational overly-aggressive responses, no inane mocking comments which do not stick to topic and have no purpose other than to ridicule, and no irrelevant remarking. Well? I can dream can't I?)

Anyway, back to the subject matter - though digressing slightly;

Physics - your favourite subject:

If the universe is expanding (Big Bang et al) and as light 'diffracts' - spreads out as it travels - independently of this expansion, and if some of these 'dead stars' which are the source of this light are trillions of light years from our vantage point on Earth, then why do we still see the travelling light from these distant dead stars as starlight? Why hasn't it acted in accordance with the 'Laws of Physics' and spread out and dimmed as a massively wide glow of light? Why hasn't it changed colour even as it has 'cooled'?

I ask from a position of ignorance.

Amazing post Kirk

I have posted a few times on here that I don't believe in 'ghosts' as such but I do definitely believe in residual energies that have been created by both humans, animals and so on and that will eventually fade out over time, I just can't imagine for example someone living until they were 90 years old, carrying out the same routine each and every day for a long time then when they pass on that energy just dies instantly?.

I truly think residual energy from people of the past is what most people are seeing/sensing when they feel as if a building is haunted, I also find it kinda sad in a way.