Author Topic: Does Your Soul Weigh 21 Grams? (Read 975 times)

Halo · « **Reply #15 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:36:30 AM »

(QUOTE) Yeah, people crap and pee when they die. Thats probably the 21 gram difference. (UNQUOTE)

Mmmm, yeah, but unless on a starvation diet, I bet I could exude a pound or two.

Skeld · « **Reply #16 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:39:24 AM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Photons have energy, but not mass.

Yeah, people crap and pee when they die. Thats probably the 21 gram difference.

I fart bigger then 21 grams

Halo · « **Reply #17 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:47:05 AM »

For perspective, 21 grams supposedly are about the weight of a hummingbird.

A gram is 1/1000th of a kilogram (duh) which equals 2.2046226 pounds.

One gram equals 0.046297 pound.

A gram is the mass of water in a cube one cm on each side.

21 grams x 0.046297 pound = 0.972237 pound, so a pound weighs about 10 souls?

No, that can't be right. Somebody help out here with the decimals.

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:47:56 AM »

I have sold my soul, so in theory i should not loose 21 grams when i die.

Dichotomy · « **Reply #19 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:54:40 AM »

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Originally posted by SkyRock
lolz When was the last time you had a physics class?

never

isn't it obvious?

SkyRock · « **Reply #20 on:** August 22, 2007, 09:01:23 AM »

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Originally posted by moot
I find the everyday routines of homo sapiens a bit too primitive. If there's something out of this world (universe, perceived dimensions), it would make consciousness make a lot more sense. I just can't buy that something as "evolved" as a soul would be limited in foundation to sensory inputs and their associated basic algorithms (yearning for physical safety, fight or flight instincts, freudian mechanics, jungian archetypes, etc) as hardwired and nothing more.
An idea I've read is that dark energy is only the effect of an influence from another dimension... Could consciousness, if it is in fact anything special, come from there?
I just can't get over the possibilities and immensity of the universe, math, philosophy, etc, not being appreciated by such a large proportion of the species.

Photons have no mass.

Very nice post Moot. It is only a matter of time before we determine that photons do, in fact, have mass. I never have bought into the distorted path idea that Einstein's relativity proposes for the change in direction of photons around a large object. I believe they have mass, and it is only a matter of time before we invent a way to guage that mass. Unfortunately the process is slow in coming but this might be a start:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4474

Angus · « **Reply #21 on:** August 22, 2007, 09:12:43 AM »

There is one law.
A measurement will always affect the measure.

Tac · « **Reply #22 on:** August 23, 2007, 12:49:54 PM »

If any of you are interested, read up on KIRLIAN photography.

Its like an x-ray of the body's energies. The amazing thing is that any living thing emits an 'aura' that this technique captures. Even more amazing is that even after a piece of that organism has been removed, there is STILL an aura for the missing part !!!

You take a leaf for example. Take a kirliogram 'snapshot' of it.

Cut the leaf in half.

Put half of the leaf in a different kirliogram machine a day later..

and the kirliogram will shot the half of the leaf exactly like the original picture.. BUT... the missing half of the leaf is ALSO there! Just that its a bit faint compared to the 'actual' leaf half that was physically there.

They did the same with a man who had lost a finger in an accident a week ago. The kirliogram showed all fingers. The missing finger was there but fainter.

Really neat stuff.

rpm · « **Reply #23 on:** August 23, 2007, 12:54:58 PM »

My soul weighs 28 grams. But, I have a lot of soul.

moot · « **Reply #24 on:** August 23, 2007, 12:55:18 PM »

Tac, not a single result from google, yahoo, answers.com or in wikipedia for 'kirliogram'.

Neubob · « **Reply #25 on:** August 23, 2007, 12:56:54 PM »

My soul is of average length but above-average girth.

At least that's what my asian friends tell me.

AWMac · « **Reply #26 on:** August 23, 2007, 01:00:42 PM »

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Originally posted by SkyRock
lolz When was the last time you had a physics class?

Some day when I die I hope to be like SkyRock....Brain Dead.

J/K

Mac

aztec · « **Reply #27 on:** August 23, 2007, 01:28:50 PM »

As far as I'm concerned, if it only weighs 21 grams, I've been ripped off for 7 grams again.

Laurie · « **Reply #28 on:** August 23, 2007, 02:02:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Dichotomy
Which brings up an interesting question. Does energy have weight or mass?

mass is just stored energy says Einstein i believe.

Nutzoid · « **Reply #29 on:** August 23, 2007, 02:14:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Dichotomy
Which brings up an interesting question. Does energy have weight or mass?

Ever here of E=MC2?