| Do you believe in ghosts? What - only after a few | | | | thousands, of miles away? |
| pints? Well, think about it. What is a ghost? | | | | Easy. The pictures are sent by electro-magnetic |
| No, really. I don't mean the things Scooby Doo chases | | | | waves through the air. Look around you, though. Can |
| or runs away from. They always turn out to be quite | | | | you see any waves, or pictures or even anything? |
| human anyway, don't they? There is always a rational | | | | No? Does that prove they aren't there? |
| (by cartoon standards) explanation. | | | | To even detect those waves you need the right |
| But, can ghosts exist in reality? How much thought | | | | equipment, which in its turn needs to be set to the right |
| have you ever given to them? | | | | frequency. Then you can see what is being sent out |
| Ghosts are said to be invisible, so you wouldn't expect | | | | as a broadcast. If you alter the frequency you lose |
| to see them anyway. Because you can't see them, or | | | | that picture and maybe get a different one. Could it be |
| even detect them in any other way, they can't exist, | | | | that if you had equipment which could be tuned to the |
| surely. That's the argument I have heard many times | | | | right frequency you would be able to detect the |
| over the years. | | | | supernatural things we talk of? I don't know, but I don't |
| But consider this. In your living room there is almost | | | | discount the possibility. |
| certainly a box with a screen. Inside that box is a | | | | Remember, from quite basic science lessons: matter |
| whole array of wires and electronic gubbins that few | | | | cannot be made or destroyed, and energy cannot be |
| of us can make any sense of. Attached to the box is | | | | made or destroyed, but can be changed into a |
| a plug, which is pushed into the electric socket on the | | | | different form of energy. Ghosts are said to be the |
| wall. Yes, I am talking about a television set. | | | | spirits of dead people. Spirits are, maybe, the life |
| Now, if you switch that television set on and select a | | | | forces which so far science has been unable to |
| channel you will see pictures of things, people or | | | | detect, roaming the earth, and only detectable by |
| places, or a combination of any or all of them. Have | | | | somebody who has senses tuned to the right |
| you thought how those pictures got there, from a | | | | frequencies. |
| studio which might be many hundreds, or even | | | | |