mxpxbigd285

just a thought -

if the scale itself is so sensitive, then the pulsing of blood through ones veins would push a bit on that scale in a rythmical pattern (while it was still pulsing). when the person dies, there will be no more pulse, and therefore no more added pressure on the scale.

72_nova

well if you think of your soul as a life force which would be an enegry and energy has mass then yeah it makes sense. however someone asked where the energy goes ... GOOD QUESTION!!!

caazi

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Yea, that's what I was trying to say. Wouldn't that have something to do with it? Would that be along with the whole gravity pressure arguement?

Alonias

I would have to say no. Even though the heart is beating in rythmatic pattern, the blood system in the body is pressurized, and blood vessels are quite mirrored. So, lets say you are on your back, well, when your heart beats it pushes some blood down and some blood up, most likely causing almost no effect on a scale.

Bergs

"Almost no effect" is exactly what they measured on the scale after the person died. Gravity will make the blood ever slightly more dense the closer to the earth that the blood is... essentially making the downward pressure ever so slightly greater than the force upwards. In each individual blood vessel, the pressure would be skewed slightly downward. Whether this would account for the change in mass, I'm not one to say. I don't believe in the report simply because I can't comprehend how they could account for every variable. How did they measure the air that they exhaled when they died? I can't imagine any facility that has the dual capabilities of caring for a dying patient and measuring so precisely the weight of air in his lungs.

And who's to say it would be the soul anyway? It could just be electrical interference from the body acting on the scale. A change in magnetic flux creates a change in current. That's basic physics, and it may be all that's going on here.

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That's all bunk, if anything it's probably just the weight of air leaving the body

LittleMudfish

great post

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If were talking milligrams here, the lost weight might be accounted for on exhaling their last breath.

*D*

Ever listen "to coast to coast" at night? Its usually on am stations at night and they talk about stuff llike this (and much more) Supossedly they had a scientist who was from russia I think that performed these exact tests and came up with the same findings. It wasn'r alot of weight but it was enough to account for more than air.

jace319

A better question would be to ask if there exists such a thing as a "soul"
if yes...what do you mean by "soul"?
and yes, by mg...it very well could have been due to external forces such as the closing of a door, window breeze, etc.
working at a chem lab, you have to keep the lid shut on the scale so that measurements are accurate

Sailormoon

Its a no brainer, i didn't even need research for this one. Check it out...
Blood is nothing more than a vast amount cells that carry O2 to every cell in your body. When a person expels their final breath, the process of Cellular Respiration ends and therefor stopping "soon to be dead" body cells from performing Glycolysis.

Glycolysis is probably the oldest known way of producing ATP.

Cellular Respiration: the process which occurs within mitochondria in which cells use oxygen to burn sugar for fuel (re- = back‚ again; spira = to breathe)

Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP): a molecule used by cells to store and transport energy (adeno = gland; tri = three)

I suggest we start a thread about Urban legends and how they begin.

t1mber

either way electromagnetic or otherwise, still makes you think

aquadude

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