Ghosts / life after death

[DearBear]

I believed there is life after death but it seems I found explanation. It is widely claimed that Albert Einstein suggested a scientific basis for the reality of ghosts; if energy cannot be created or destroyed but only change form, what happens to our body's energy when we die? Could that somehow be manifested as a ghost? It seems like a reasonable assumption — unless you understand basic physics. The answer is very simple, and not at all mysterious. After a person dies, the energy in his or her body goes where all organisms' energy goes after death: into the environment. The energy is released in the form of heat, and transferred into the animals that eat us (i.e., wild animals if we are left unburied, or worms and bacteria if we are interred), and the plants that absorb us. There is no bodily "energy" that survives death to be detected with popular ghost-hunting devices. Full article: livescience.com/26697-are-ghosts-real.html

[Sivason]

This in no way explains why there would be no ghosts. It explains what happens to the heat energy found in complex molecular bonds. It explains why that law of science is not a good argument. It does not in any way remove the likelihood of a currently poorly understood natural law, beyond our current range of understanding or detection.

[DearBear]

An another fragment. If ghosts are the spirits of those whose deaths were unavenged, why are there unsolved murders, since ghosts are said to communicate with psychic mediums, and should be able to identify their killers for the police. And so on; just about any claim about ghosts raises logical reasons to doubt it. Other people take exactly the opposite approach, claiming that the reason that ghosts haven't been proven to exist is that we simply don't have the right technology to find or detect the spirit world. But this, too, can't be correct: Either ghosts exist and appear in our ordinary physical world (and can therefore be detected and recorded in photographs, film, video, and audio recordings), or they don't. If ghosts exist and can be scientifically detected or recorded, then we should find hard evidence of that — yet we don't. If ghosts exist and cannot be scientifically detected or recorded, then all the photos, videos, and other recordings claimed to be evidence of ghosts cannot be ghosts.

[Sivason]

I agree that the recorded evidence like photos can not be ghosts. I think whatever would be termed ghosts, activate something inside our brains, thus causing perception in only some people. just like we can not record another's thoughts, we could not record what someone witnessed as far as interaction with such a thing.