Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?

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Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?
By Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience | February 22, 2017 12:53pm ET

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Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?
An illustration of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, in Switzerland.
Credit: Daniel Dominguez; Maximilien Brice/CERN

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might be the world's most incredible science experiment. A particle collider seventeen miles in circumference, it accelerates protons to velocities approaching the speed of light and slams them together. Enthralled scientists from all over the world watch the subatomic demolition derby and record what happens. Thus far, they've witnessed the creation of quark-gluon plasma (the densest matter outside of black holes), found key evidence against supersymmetry, and discovered the Higgs boson, a result which garnered the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Much of the general public probably isn't aware of these fascinating, yet unfortunately, esoteric discoveries at the LHC. Particle physics simply doesn't inspire as much interest as say, ghosts. At least four in ten Americans believe in ghosts, and it's likely that even fewer people are aware of the LHC. On that note, at least one physicist contends that the LHC has, in fact, disproved the existence of ghosts.

http://www.livescience.com/57973-has-large-hadron-collider-disproved-existence-of-ghosts.html

[Gefn]

Interesting.

I'm going to ping @Quix on this one too.

[Suppressed]

Not just ghosts, but spirits.

[GtHawk]

Not just ghosts, but spirits.

Now dang it I don't mind them getting rid of the ghosts, but dagnabit leave my likker be!

[Wingnut]

Now dang it I don't mind them getting rid of the ghosts, but dagnabit leave my likker be!

[montanajoe]

Not  buying it...

The particles that have been discovered by the Collider are bounded by our perceptions in our 3 dimensional universe even at the quantum level. I think the universe is multidimensional and spirits, ghosts, and even our souls exist in those other dimensions...

[bigheadfred]

"I would say if there's some kind of substance that's driving our bodies, making my arms move and legs move, then it must interact with the particles out of which our bodies are made. And seeing as we've made high precision measurements of the ways that particles interact, then my assertion is there can be no such thing as an energy source that's driving our bodies."

Tell me then, buddy boy.

What is dark energy? Use small words.

The nature of dark energy is more hypothetical than that of dark matter, and many things about the nature of dark energy remain matters of speculation.[14] Dark energy is thought to be very homogeneous, not very dense and is not known to interact through any of the fundamental forces other than gravity. Since it is quite rarefied — roughly 10−27 kg/m3 — it is unlikely to be detectable in laboratory experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

[Oceander]

"I would say if there's some kind of substance that's driving our bodies, making my arms move and legs move, then it must interact with the particles out of which our bodies are made. And seeing as we've made high precision measurements of the ways that particles interact, then my assertion is there can be no such thing as an energy source that's driving our bodies."

Tell me then, buddy boy.

What is dark energy? Use small words.

The nature of dark energy is more hypothetical than that of dark matter, and many things about the nature of dark energy remain matters of speculation.[14] Dark energy is thought to be very homogeneous, not very dense and is not known to interact through any of the fundamental forces other than gravity. Since it is quite rarefied — roughly 10−27 kg/m3 — it is unlikely to be detectable in laboratory experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

The two are not so related that one cannot make the former claim without having proven the latter. 

More to the point, he does have a point, which makes it incumbent on those who believe in animating spirits to come forth with a theory that addresses his. 

[verga]

Not  buying it...

The particles that have been discovered by the Collider are bounded by our perceptions in our 3 dimensional universe even at the quantum level. I think the universe is multidimensional and spirits, ghosts, and even our souls exist in those other dimensions...

@montanajoe Given that some physicists speculate 10, 11, or even 26 dimensions, sure why not.

[Just_Victor]

You can't prove that something doesn't exist.  You can only prove what is.

[bigheadfred]

The two are not so related that one cannot make the former claim without having proven the latter. 

More to the point, he does have a point, which makes it incumbent on those who believe in animating spirits to come forth with a theory that addresses his.

How do they know what they are observing isn't only the result of their own entanglement with what they are observing?

[Oceander]

How do they know what they are observing isn't only the result of their own entanglement with what they are observing?

How do you know it is?

Besides which, quantum entanglement doesn't generally work between macroscopic objects. 

[bigheadfred]

How do you know it is?

Besides which, quantum entanglement doesn't generally work between macroscopic objects.

What if I told you the universe is a collapsed  wave function?

[bigheadfred]

How do you know it is?

Besides which, quantum entanglement doesn't generally work between macroscopic objects.

 Perhaps you and I are a collapsed wave form and will return to that state when we stop observing--die.