Chapter 458 (1/2)
The term ”soul” has a strong religious meaning. When it is said from the mouth of scientists, it seems that there is always a sense of disobedience. It is because of the development of physics, astronomy and other sciences that science has been expelling religion that the influence of religion begins to shrink completely.
However, a real scientist can't be an absolute atheist, because the absolute atheist, like those fanatical religious believers, first sets a truth, and then denies all the claims that are inconsistent with its setting. This kind of thinking is very unscientific!
Therefore, science does not deny the existence of the mysterious side such as soul and deity. A real scientist will not say that the deity certainly does not exist, but only that there is no evidence to prove that it exists or does not exist.
It must be pointed out that the gods mentioned here, as well as the gods, Allah, fairy, Buddha, ghost and other gods mentioned in the present religion, are not one thing at all. This God is not another god!
Zhang Wei used to believe in the existence of the soul. In his opinion, the human body is just a pile of chemicals. If there is no soul, how can there be the original meaning and almost unlimited imagination and thinking. However, after he created the big dipper with the same thinking and creativity, he was a little confused. Is the Big Dipper just a piece of code he created and also has a soul? If the soul really exists, how is it born?
Over the years, Zhang Wei has been deeply puzzled and deeply felt that the ocean of science is too vast. The more he knows, the more he realizes his insignificance and ignorance.
Fortunately, he finally solved a puzzle.
The soul does exist.
What happened was as follows:
when Liu Hao, a scientist in the laboratory, carried out the experiment, he came up with a very controversial paper, which was published in April 1907 in the American Medical Journal. The main character of the paper was Duncan McDougall, a physician in heffrey, Massachusetts. He recruited six seriously ill volunteers to carry out the experiment This is a controversial experiment. McDougall put the six dying people to bed, and then used an accurate scale to continuously measure their weight changes before and after death.
According to the experimental records, McDougall made an amazing discovery that the weight of the first volunteer was dropping at an average rate of one ounce per hour within three hours and 40 minutes before his death. McDougall thought that it was the loss of body fluid caused by breathing and perspiration, but within seconds after his death, his weight suddenly dropped by three quarters of an ounce Words can not be explained by the evaporation of body fluids. After eliminating the possibility of defecation, McDougall came to the conclusion that the disappeared 21g is the soul.
This experiment is widely spread. When many people argue with others about the existence of soul, they will take this experiment as evidence.
But in fact, this is just a fallacy, because this experiment is quite unscientific, and unscientific experiments often lead to unscientific conclusions.
In this experiment, the experimental data of six groups of experiments are all different. Some volunteers lost 1.5 ounces of weight first after death, and then another one ounce after a few minutes; others lost weight first, then rose, and then fell Six groups of experimental data are different, such experimental data is meaningless.
Incidentally, McDougall did the same experiment with 15 dogs, and then failed to test the weight change after the dog died, so he came to the conclusion that the dog had no soul.
Liu Hao thought of this unreliable paper, and suddenly came up with an idea. He wanted to do a similar experiment, because he had always been inclined to believe that the soul is related to dark matter, so he wanted to use the experimental equipment to observe whether a large amount of dark matter would escape from the body after the death of life.
Liu Hao experimented with 20 mice. He injected them with a gene virus to make them die within six hours. Then, he locked the mice in a cage and observed the changes before and after the mice died through dark matter and dark energy detection equipment.
According to the experimental records, he made an amazing discovery that within seconds after the mice died, abnormal energy fluctuations were detected, and 20 groups of experimental data were the same.