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We can build a time machine + Brian Cox on ghosts, flat earth, multiverse - C C - Jul 12, 2018
'We can build a real time machine'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44771942
EXCERPT: Travelling in time might sound like a flight of fancy, but some physicists think it might really be possible. BBC Horizon looked at some of the most promising ideas for turning this staple of science fiction into reality....
MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44771942
We asked celeb physicist Brian Cox about flat earth conspiracies, the multiverse, & ghosts
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/07/we-asked-celeb-physicist-brian-cox-about-flat-earth-conspiracies-the-multiverse-and-ghosts/
EXCERPT: . . . Let’s move on to some sillier questions. One time you said that the Large Hadron Collider disproves the existence of ghosts. But what if ghosts were made out of dark matter, like axions?
BC: It’s missing the point. In order to have a ghost, there must be some thing that interacts with the matter in your body. Whatever that thing is constructed out of, then it has to interact strongly with matter at the energies with which we observe the world now – room temperature. Axions wouldn’t do that at this energy. A classical ghost, or a soul, would have to interact strongly with the body.
We have a very precise understanding of how matter interacts and we see no evidence at these energies of matter interacting with the Standard Model. I’m sure there will be new interactions, but they will be very subtle and visible at the highest energies. But that doesn’t help you when it comes to your body, or a ghost floating through your bedroom.
MORE: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/07/we-asked-celeb-physicist-brian-cox-about-flat-earth-conspiracies-the-multiverse-and-ghosts/
RE: We can build a time machine + Brian Cox on ghosts, flat earth, multiverse - Magical Realist - Jul 13, 2018
Quote:We asked celeb physicist Brian Cox about flat earth conspiracies, the multiverse, & ghosts
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/07/we-asked-celeb-physicist-brian-cox-about-flat-earth-conspiracies-the-multiverse-and-ghosts/
EXCERPT: . . . Let’s move on to some sillier questions. One time you said that the Large Hadron Collider disproves the existence of ghosts. But what if ghosts were made out of dark matter, like axions?
BC: It’s missing the point. In order to have a ghost, there must be some thing that interacts with the matter in your body. Whatever that thing is constructed out of, then it has to interact strongly with matter at the energies with which we observe the world now – room temperature. Axions wouldn’t do that at this energy. A classical ghost, or a soul, would have to interact strongly with the body.
We have a very precise understanding of how matter interacts and we see no evidence at these energies of matter interacting with the Standard Model. I’m sure there will be new interactions, but they will be very subtle and visible at the highest energies. But that doesn’t help you when it comes to your body, or a ghost floating through your bedroom.
MORE: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/07/we-asked-celeb-physicist-brian-cox-about-flat-earth-conspiracies-the-multiverse-and-ghosts/
MR on ghosts:
When the mind dissolves at death, all the little subminds that populated our psyche--our obsessions, our fears, our addictions, our inner child, our pet peeves, our id, our neuroses, our complexes, our shadow, etc--get dispersed into the etheric plane. These are what compose ghosts--those half-conscious animalistic protopersons that haunted us throughout our lives. The core consciousness--the soul--has escaped to the higher planes. But our hungry ghosts or false identities wander in the desolate domains---lower dimensional dimmer crosssections of our multidimensional holographic Atman. They have their own karmic path of purgation to follow, just like animals do, before they can ascend and reunite with the core self-aware light soul that we truly are.