Jumat, 22 April 2016

Duncan MacDougall, A Man Who Determine The Weight Of Human Soul.


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You’ll be shock if you found out what this doctor found when he weighed the human soul. This man has determine the weight of human soul. Regarding how sensational what his done during that time, It’s quite interesting to hear his story. Some fun fact that I’ve just discover on wackulus.com, lets see!!

Experiment on the dead and conclude his first postulate

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In 1907, Dr. Duncan MacDougall found a bunch of people who were about to die and weighed them as they expired. Dr. MacDougall’s plan was to determine when death was hours away, and to place the entire bed on a huge scale that was sensitive to “two-tenths of an ounce”. After all patients had passed, Dr. MacDougall determined that uniform weight loss of 3/4 of an ounce had occurred in each one. He claimed that at the point of death, the bodies became lighter. He assumed that lost weight was the escaping soul. From this he concluded that a human soul weighed 21 grams. He even postulated that soul of the sluggish in life are slow in death


Of course many scientists was denied his postulated during that time

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On March 10, 1907, before MacDougall’s results were published in the New York Times.  Later in the year they were published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the medical journal American Medicine.
At the time, several physicians countered the test results with possible explanations, such as the final exhalation, body sweat, and changes in body density.  MacDougall argued back, stating that he had conducted separate tests for each those items and had seen loss, but none were significant enough nor happened quickly enough to cause a change of 21 grams at the time of death.
Nowdays his theory can’t be develop yet
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Today’s scientists and doctors primarily dismiss the results of the test.  The sample size was too small, the equipment was not sensitive enough, and MacDougall generally ignored the results that did not fit his theory.  The physicist Robert L. Park has written MacDougall’s experiments “are not regarded today as having any scientific merit” and the psychologist Bruce Hood wrote that “because the weight loss was not reliable or replicable, his findings were unscientific.”
He can’t finished his next project
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After this experiment,  MagDougall began a project with the goal of photographing the soul as it left the body.  Dr. MacDougall failed to establish any scientific breakthroughs, and passed away in 1920.

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