• Question: Do you believe in ghosts?

    Asked by miacorn to Dave, Ed, Guido, Hugh, Stef on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Dave Bond

      Dave Bond answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      No I have seen no proof, I am yet to be convinced that there are ghosts.

      Though maybe it is possible though most (propper) research has discredited this.

      Saying that this is like haunting and slamming doors, and people that like to stay in haunted buildings. Spirit and the afterlife well this is a slightly different question and one that draws a divide still between religion and science. Though I am not saying that religion and science cannot co exist.

    • Photo: Guido Bolognesi

      Guido Bolognesi answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      I believed in ghosts when I was a child but now I no longer believe.

      As a scientist, you only believe in those things whose existence can be experimentally proved or at least, if you cannot prove the existence, there are very good arguments to support their existence.

      Many theories of Einstein could not be experimentally proved for decades as there was not yet the technology to prove them. However, the guy had very good arguments to show that his theories were right.

      Now, even if I have never seen a ghost (no experimental proof), those who believe in them cannot bring any good argument to prove their existence.

      So I tend not to believe them 😀 😀

    • Photo: Ed Rial

      Ed Rial answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Hi Mia

      No. They don’t make sense to me!

      Ed

    • Photo: Mariastefania De Vido

      Mariastefania De Vido answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      Hi Mia!

      No, I don’t believe ghosts because no experimental proof of their existence has been provided.

      Stef

      PS: do you know that there is a phenomenon in optics called “ghost”? This is not a paranormal event, but just consists in unwanted reflections from the surfaces of lenses or other components in an optical system. When light goes through glass surfaces, part of it gets refracted and passes through the surface, while the rest gets reflected. Unwanted reflections create “ghost images”, which are faint and blurred replicas of the scene your optical system is imaging.

    • Photo: Hugh Harvey

      Hugh Harvey answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      I don’t believe in ghosts Miacorn – mainly because I have never seen one!

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