There is no ghost spirit or soul. Proof!

[SerenelyBlue]

http://www.livescience.com/57973-has-large-hadron-collider-disproved-existence-of-ghosts.html

[bornagainathiest]

Caution, SB!

Not everything on the internet should be taken at face value.  

It's important to critically evaluate the site where the article in question is found.  

For instance, at the bottom of the page we can see this.  

 

Editor's Recommendations

'Time Machines': Photos of the World's Physics Labs

10 Ghost Stories That Will Haunt You for Life

Spooky Sites: 7 of the Most Haunted Places in the United States

 

Why is the editor of a website 'dedicated to science' recommending links about ghosts and the supernatural?

 

 

 

 

 

[SerenelyBlue]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/27/the-large-hadron-collider-has-proved-that-ghosts-dont-exist-brian-cox-claims-6475352/

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[bornagainathiest]

8 hours ago, SerenelyBlue said:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/27/the-large-hadron-collider-has-proved-that-ghosts-dont-exist-brian-cox-claims-6475352/

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That would be Brian Cox's definition of what a ghost is, SB.

 

If ghosts do exist, but don't come under his definition, then their existence has not been disproved by the LHC.  

 

Do they come under his definition?

 

I don't know.   Do you?

[ContraBardus]

Don't trust anything that claims to prove a negative.

 

This doesn't mean that you can't use reason to decide that something isn't likely, only that anyone that claims they can prove that something doesn't exist is either overconfident or full of shit.

 

It's not unreasonable to not believe in something, but it is arrogant to claim that you can prove something doesn't exist. It's not impossible, but kind of a waste of time because of just how much you'd have to disprove in order to prove a negative. Proving one thing doesn't exists would likely take more lifetimes than humanity will exist. I avoid using the word "impossible" to describe probability and prefer "unlikely" or "improbable". Nothing is impossible, there is only improbable, and there are infinite degrees of improbable.

 

I don't believe in God, but that doesn't mean I can prove that there is no such thing. The degree of likelyhood of there being a God varies depending on how you define God, usually, the more specific you get, the less likely it is. That doesn't mean that being as vague as possible automatically makes it likely to be true either, just that "God is a consciousness that created the Universe" is more likely than "God is a magical Jewish socialist hippie with a suicide fetish and a multiple personality disorder".