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Originally posted by gigi@Jan 16 2003, 01:34 PM
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To try to get proof have considered going ghost hunting
If I can find ghosts that would be proof of a life energy ?
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Call it energy, life energy...whatever you like....'energy' is already proven to exist. Also, it's a proven fact that energy never dies...it only transforms.
Take for example electricity. From the dam to the plug in your house, through your lamp and into the light bulb. The energy of water has now been transformed into light. And as you know light goes on forever....
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In physics, energy is just the ability for a system to do work. Work is just force x distance.*
I don't really know what people mean when they use the term energy in a sentence like "I believe god is an energy force" or "there is a 'life energy' ". I mean, I vaguely understand the idea but no one seems to have a precise definition that would allow someone to evaluate it. Whatever is meant, it does not seem to be the same thing as the physics definition.
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*If I hold a rock a certain distance off the ground that rock has "gravitational potential energy". I can turn that potential energy into kinetic energy by dropping it. As it drops the rock increases in kinetic energy (it moves faster). The potential energy drops by an equivalent amount. At the end we could have an apparatus that the rock hits and transforms that kinetic energy into electrical energy. If someone is willing to stand there all day and drop rocks, we can power a small motor with it.
Now, I have no idea what this has to do with ghosts or what might be meant by energy as it relates to ghost. Of course, I've heard these things all my life and continue to ask people and no one has yet satisfactorily explained it to me.