RE: Ghosts (Just read this)
December 21, 2011 at 10:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 10:06 am by Welsh cake.)
(December 21, 2011 at 5:56 am)ReB Wrote: So I think, that if the energy was not released through heat, where would it go? I think that somehow this energy was formed into what some people thought are, ghosts. What do you guys think? How did the energy escape, and/or form into something else? And please, if there already is a scientifically proved explanation on how energy escapes a corpse, please just explain it and dont go full douche on me, I'm 15. Thank you.Yes. Its all to do with fundamental concepts in physics, namely the second law of thermodynamics that deals with entropy. Algor mortis takes place after the termination of biological functions. Body temperature gradually declines until it matches ambient temperatures or that of the surrounding environment of where the corpse should be.
Whereas the matter itself undergoes the processes of autolysis (cell destruction/self-digestion) and decomposition (body temperature will rise again as this happens obviously), resulting in the decaying metabolic breakdown of organic materials into simpler forms of matter and ultimately spread out over Earth's biome.
This is all academic. There is no scientific evidence for Ghosts, just sad and desperate belief systems in some kind of afterlife or faith in rebirth.
The only stumbling block our scientific understanding has on death has been its definition. Its describing the state where something has actually ceased, in this context, "life". Therefore, the definition of "life" simultaneously defines "death". Here lies the problem, it's still a challenge for scientists and philosophers to define the process where objects can self replicate, undergo signalling and self-sustaining processes concisely and unambiguously.
If we do discover a way in which energy itself, and no longer the brain, supports the consciousness of the former-living being - their personality, thoughts of memories so that they do survive biological death, it merely shows that reality is far more complex than we can currently fathom. However it is extremely unlikely.
