A friend and I are arguing over ghosts.

I think it’s akin to astrology, homeopathy and palm reading. He says there’s “convincing “ evidence for its existence. He also took up company time to make a meme to illustrate our relative positions. (See image)

(To be fair, I’m also on the clock right now)

What do you think?

          • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
            13·
            2 days ago

            The earth’s magnetic field is fluid and changing, magnetism is affected by electrical current or heat.

            • EvilBit@lemmy.world
              5·
              2 days ago

              I don’t mean that any given magnetic field is unchanging, I mean that the principles are stable and well-understood. We never see magnetic fields just randomly change with no reason or else navigation and all kinds of other technologies would be fucked forever.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        You keep saying “physical force”…

        That’s not a real term in physics.

        The only possible explanation, is you mean any force that is already explained by physics, is that what you mean?

        Because that would be the same as insisting we know everything, which no one who knows anything about physics would ever try to claim.

        So…

        What exactly do you mean when you keep saying “physical forces”?

        • EvilBit@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 days ago

          I mean there’s no way to go from immeasurable to measurable except in scale, and anywhere north of quantum scale, physics has been reliably predictable and measurable. Ghosts’ purported impact is on a scale well above that which is unexplained.