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Maybe ghosts are real but since gravity doesn't affect them they are now lost in space
- Thread starter julia crawford
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That begs the question, what was the core pre-humans? 300,000+ years ago?
Oh shit, that is what hell is. Your ghostly self goes to the core and there are a bunch of dinosaur ghosts and whatever.
But who answered phone?!
OP needs to go ly down and not do too many ambien pills next time.
This would be dumb even for Weekend Era.
Also that's not how gravity works at all. You don't just float off into space because you're unaffected by gravity...
Also that's not how gravity works at all. You don't just float off into space because you're unaffected by gravity...
Someone dies every second. Earth is leaving a breadcrumb trail of ghosts.
Can ghosts touch each other? Because I want to die at the same moment, in the same place, as someone I care about. That way we can hold hands as we fly into oblivion and never be alone! I'm sure someone will be up for a precisely-timed suicide pact.
Can ghosts touch each other? Because I want to die at the same moment, in the same place, as someone I care about. That way we can hold hands as we fly into oblivion and never be alone! I'm sure someone will be up for a precisely-timed suicide pact.
There has to be a reason why we don't see ghosts everywhere. This theory explains it perfectly and it's all the proof I need.
I don't think you're understanding gravity and space. If you were unaffected by gravity and couldn't make contact with physical matter, what would keep you on the earth? It's moving 70,000 miles an hour.
all distance and speed is relative purely by comparison to other things that are also not absolute
there is no such thing as absolute position because it all depends on your chosen reference, there is no stationary reference point in the universe to tell the true "speed" of any object
there is literally no such thing as stillness, the universe is defined by its passage through spacetime
but being unaffected by any form of momentum or gravity in the universe and being conjured at some theoretical universal standstill would make you the singular point of absolute spacetime in the universe which would probably be an even more exciting scientific discovery than the existence of ghosts to begin with
although if momentum is maintained and you are simply no longer subject to gravity, which would make slightly more sense, you would just go hurling into space at the same speed the earth was traveling in, just no longer curving around the sun. so if you're really lucky you might fly through uranus on your way out of the solar system and in a few million years maybe even the heart of the galaxy if you're lucky.
however the most likely result is that they are affected by gravity like everything else in the universe.
in which case, the earth's core is very very haunted
there is no such thing as absolute position because it all depends on your chosen reference, there is no stationary reference point in the universe to tell the true "speed" of any object
there is literally no such thing as stillness, the universe is defined by its passage through spacetime
but being unaffected by any form of momentum or gravity in the universe and being conjured at some theoretical universal standstill would make you the singular point of absolute spacetime in the universe which would probably be an even more exciting scientific discovery than the existence of ghosts to begin with
although if momentum is maintained and you are simply no longer subject to gravity, which would make slightly more sense, you would just go hurling into space at the same speed the earth was traveling in, just no longer curving around the sun. so if you're really lucky you might fly through uranus on your way out of the solar system and in a few million years maybe even the heart of the galaxy if you're lucky.
however the most likely result is that they are affected by gravity like everything else in the universe.
in which case, the earth's core is very very haunted
Ghosts can float/fly, so it's not like they just float up and never stop. Then can move however they want.
I mean, I don't know how they're even moving but I assume without mass/matter they could probably match the speed/movement of the planet rotating and moving around the Sun if they wanted to and move as fast as they want. I dunno.
Not accordig to Batman Beyond (I know the guy is not a "ghost", but thread title remind me of this scene)
Ghosts must be super fast if they aren't affected by gravity. Earth goes around the Sun at 67000 miles per hour.
This idea supposes a lot of things about ghosts that we just don't have the scientific data for.
Ghosts are presumably not physical beings, but some sort of mental aura our bodies create that is released upon death (usually during trauma). They're basically our mind removed from our body, projecting an image of itself out to the world (it's gotta be a mental image of the self because otherwise why aren't all ghosts naked?).
Ghosts are also often linked to specific locations, so it's possible they're not tethered by gravity but by locations on the earth. They move in space in proximity to these beacon locations they lived in while alive. It's why you never see, like, Abe Lincoln's ghost in Norway.
If ghosts were a universal phenomena that happens to everyone and ghosts are untethered from gravity then it'd be really obvious they're real since the ghosts of everyone who died on the front of the planet would move through the earth and emerge underground on the back of the planet as it moved in its orbit around the sun. The earth would then have a comet like tail of ghosts that would be pretty obvious to everyone, and if the earth ever went back into the same exact spot as a prior rotation all those ghosts would phase through the atmosphere and crust again.
Ghosts are presumably not physical beings, but some sort of mental aura our bodies create that is released upon death (usually during trauma). They're basically our mind removed from our body, projecting an image of itself out to the world (it's gotta be a mental image of the self because otherwise why aren't all ghosts naked?).
Ghosts are also often linked to specific locations, so it's possible they're not tethered by gravity but by locations on the earth. They move in space in proximity to these beacon locations they lived in while alive. It's why you never see, like, Abe Lincoln's ghost in Norway.
If ghosts were a universal phenomena that happens to everyone and ghosts are untethered from gravity then it'd be really obvious they're real since the ghosts of everyone who died on the front of the planet would move through the earth and emerge underground on the back of the planet as it moved in its orbit around the sun. The earth would then have a comet like tail of ghosts that would be pretty obvious to everyone, and if the earth ever went back into the same exact spot as a prior rotation all those ghosts would phase through the atmosphere and crust again.
What if ghosts are real but they live in the other ghost dimension. Like a zone just filled with ghosts and only come out when the feel like it.
If they're unaffected by gravity, do they retain their inertial frame of reference from their time of death, or do they just lose all momentum immediately and freeze in place?
Because if it's the latter, it means ghosts effectively still aren't real since they're basically all going to end up outside of our observable universe before we can reasonably reach them with any forecastable technology. So, you can rest easy, OP!
Because if it's the latter, it means ghosts effectively still aren't real since they're basically all going to end up outside of our observable universe before we can reasonably reach them with any forecastable technology. So, you can rest easy, OP!
I'm pretty sure we're not moving that fast all the time haha.
No thats why we cant see or feel them either, duh.
We are actually moving faster, thanks to the velocity of the solar system itself, and the galaxy, which is also moving.
Off-topic, but what's the deal with stuff that can "walk through walls"? So solid matter doesn't stop them, but then how are they not falling through floors? And if they are, why aren't they falling into the middle of the earth's core? Or does, by default, the power of phasing through matter also grant one the ability to levitate/fly? I'm looking at you Kitty Pryde!
Ghosts better be real how the fuck else am I gonna see what PlayStation¤◇¡ graphics look like and what weird ass heroes we have running around in the MCU in the year 2480
Do we have any precedent for perceiving non-physical things, and said non physical things being able to interact with the physical world?
I posit that since we can see them and their effect on the world, ghosts ARE physical, CAN be killed, and we need to STOP running and START SHOOTING
Yeah like what do they do all day? Everything you do throughout the day they can not do by definition.
No eating, no sleeping. No using a computer/phone. No playing videos games. No leaving the house. They don't have their own room. At least not one that's not been taken over by someone else. They can't even do boring stuff like read a book.
They just sit around and look at you doing you know what.
They don't go into space OP the reason you don't see them all over the place on land is because they come from the fucking sea smdh do some research duh
You know...that is crazy.
But that sort of defines hell: complete isolation knowing that others (earth) are in a better place. I swear there are even some interpretations that hell is actually cold and not hot, like absence of everything. Probably can't see other ghosts, just sitting there without the ability to see far and probably can't even look at the sun for the short period of time (in perspective) that it is there. Only hope is a brief view of an asteroid or another body flies by briefly.
Cruel.
ghosts don't need gravity, they're bound to people and places
i think this is better than the fart thread fwiw
i think this is better than the fart thread fwiw
The "frame of reference" is gravity. You're saying ghosts would be purposely moving against gravity at all times. Not just against the speed of the Earth's rotation but the dun's against the universe and so on.
This premise would make a really good sci-fi horror movie
Frame of reference is a technical term. You can think of it as the origin point and orientation for a coordinate system, the (0, 0, 0) on a 3D axis. A moving frame of reference is just as equally valid as a still frame of reference.
Now, for most normal purposes, you can use the surface of the Earth as a valid frame of reference. It isn't entirely free of acceleration obviously, but until you move fast enough or far enough (such as ballistic missile), it is hard to tell the difference. From the perspective of the Earth's surface, the Earth is still and its the rest of the universe that's moving around the Earth. So, why does the movement of the Sun around the Galaxy or Galaxies relative to each other have any bearing on the ghost?
Also, as a side note, if ghosts are unaffected by gravity, that means that they have zero mass. That means that they should be moving at the speed of light. So keeping up with any of the Earth's movements should be easy.
You're right. All ghosts are affected by gravity and thus trapped in the Earth's core.
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you say "trapped" like it's a bad thing. they serve honorably, helping to power our magnetosphere.
which is, coincidentally, also how they levitate, via magnets.
I think what happens when we die is our ghost gets pulled to the other side of the universe by some property of quantum entanglement we don't understand and we just blink into existence out there in the darkness millions of years in the future in a black, silent, lonely void from which we can never escape
Right, until volcanos launch them into the atmosphere and our bodies. Get out of my body, T̶h̶e̶t̶a̶n̶s̶ ghosts!
