Comments on: Ghosts are NOT Dark Matter

By: Rick Parlett

Rick Parlett — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:34:39 +0000

You…you LIAR!!!! Have u proven this? I so please share. I happen to believe otherwise. Dark Matter is also observable as distortions. So that means that people could see the dark matter distortions and think they are “ghosts.”

By: Raymond Strano

Raymond Strano — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:31:59 +0000

The idea that ghosts are dark matter is really not as crazy as it first sounds. First off you have to realize that dark matter and dark energy are really just two aspects of how the vacuum interacts with matter. That is if you have two parallel plates, the vacuum pressure between them is less than outside them producing an inward pressure pushing the plates together. This is the Casimir effect which results from non-resonant modes of the vacuum being excluded from between the plates. Now if you imagine two pairs of plates there is an outward repulsive force created between the two pairs of plates.
Substitute two galaxies for the two pairs of plates and you see how the Casimir effect could provide an explanation for both the attractive dark matter and the repulsive dark energy. Ghosts if they were anything would be an ordering of vacuum fluctuations like the resonant vacuum modes between two plates. I have found that fmeditators with 10 years or more experiance feel something when placed between two parallel plates and identify the sensation as chi or prana.
There seems to be something to all this and it deserves more attencion.

By: Soapdish

Soapdish — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:40:46 +0000

Robert Ryan;

You speak of the concept of a soul in the same paragraph that you entreat for “scientific explanations”.

I hope you see the disconnect here.

By: Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:49:03 +0000

how can you simply dissmiss the connection between 2 extremely unkown substances. we don’t how dark matter reacts to regular matter and no one knows how/if ghosts exist. if you look at M-theory they talk about how the big bang was a collision between 2 membranes. it also discribes the existence of at least 10 other spatial dimensions. if matter cannot be created or destroyed, what happens to the “soul” of human beings? do we just turn into the potential energy of the matter of our bodies? what if our souls travel to an unknown dimension. what if we have possible interactions between these unkown dimensions in which perhaps time doesn’t exist (at least as we know it to exist)? is it so ridiculous for people to think that something as silly as ghosts or spirits may have an actual explanation through science?

By: awolfgod

awolfgod — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:39:03 +0000

i dont know any thing about matters but maybe anti matter , i want to hear you explain why they are not made of anti matter

By: Dark Energy « Alice’s Astro Info

Dark Energy « Alice’s Astro Info — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:15:55 +0000

[...] P.S. Ghosts are not made of Dark Energy. Thatâ€šÃ„Ã´s crazy talk. [...]

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:28:54 +0000

Nothing wrong with the ad itself, but there’s something screwy with the way the page renders, such that the ad obscures the rightmost edge of the text. Either your text is overstepping its bounds (probable) or the ad’s made of dark matter and is exerting its influence over the text.

Either way, I had to adblock the image to read the article (which, btw, I enjoyed).

By: pamela

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Hi Amanda,

What is wrong with the ad for Swinburne? I’m one of their instructors and haven’t had a negative experience so far. If either my theme is bust or you had a negative experience with SAO, please let me know.

Cheers – Pamela

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:08:02 +0000

It would have been wonderful to read your opinions, which I’m sure I would have agreed with, if it weren’t for the ad for Swinbourne Online across the bloody page!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:29:40 +0000

BREAKING NEWS from Science News

PAMELA may have spotted the dark stuff
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36202/title/PAMELA_may_have_spotted_the_dark_stuff
An orbiting observatory may have discovered particles of dark matter — the proposed, invisible material that researchers believe holds the universe together.

By: Syed Moin Doja

Syed Moin Doja — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:16:34 +0000

ooohh love it when a hard core scientist tears a nutcase apart.
especially liked the way she explains – “..try and claim ghosts use gravity to move stuff around, then they couldnâ€šÃ„Ã´t selectively move things because theyâ€šÃ„Ã´d need HUGE amounts of mass to move a small chair, and in the process theyâ€šÃ„Ã´d probably bend walls and collapse ceilings.” you paint such a beautiful mind-picture, could really imagine that scene in my mind complete with special effects- could almost see the walls slowly bend and distort and the ceiling comes crashing down with a Bang!
way to go Doc, a veritable Dana Scully.

4.45 a.m
Calcutta, India.

By: Dark matter says “boo!” « Peculiar Velocity

Dark matter says “boo!” « Peculiar Velocity — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:58:59 +0000

[...] in a stunning breakthrough, we find the theory that dark matter is made of ghosts. Aside from a couple flaws*, the idea makes sense. After all, dark matter got it’s name [...]

By: jake

jake — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:05:36 +0000

If it’s not ghosts, someone like Silvia Brown will claim it’s spiritual energy or souls of the unborn. Although perhaps its a good thing that most quacks don’t read science magazines much or I can just imagine what crazy theory’s they’d spread around like ghost thing. Or perhaps it’s too bad that they don’t pay more attention to the scientific community or they might have a more informed perspective. I guess its a lose-lose situation either way.

By: Colin J

Colin J — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:17:05 +0000

They can’t be dark matter, because everyone knows that ghosts are white!

By: Yoo

Yoo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:16:07 +0000

Want to bet how soon claims of ghosts being made of dark energy will come out?

By: Anatai

Anatai — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:50:36 +0000

Dark matter is a fascinating subject to me! All my internet searches on it have turned up a myriad of ideas about what it could be or what its purpose is. I find it very interesting to hear others opinions and thoughts about it. But even I know how to draw the line at statements far outside the realm of possibilities. I don’t personally believe there are ghosts but I love it when evidence is presented instead of just opinion. Thanks Dr. Gay!