Can Ghosts and Poltergeists be explained with gravitational disturbances?

Question

As time is linked to gravity - should we be looking at local changes in gravitational fields ?

We don't even know how gravity is created - but it SEEMS constant.

If the local gravitational field changes - then time in that area changes also. Not only do small objects appear to fly across rooms with uncanny movements, but sounds (evp) that were travelling through that space may be heard many years later. Even Ghosts may be seen in this disturbance.

How many of us have read or whitnessed items going missing - only to reappear somewhere we have already looked? This distortion in time may actually cause an item not to exist in either position at all - untill it times out - to when it was placed.

Is anyone measuring local gravity during investigations ?

Answer 1

One can do a geological background check on the area of a haunting.

Areas high in iron, granite, and quartz do have an effect on the area.

As far as something missing and then reappearing after you've already looked high and low.........

Ever played those Seek and Find games? Whether it's word games, or looking for that character Waldo in a mass of other colors? Or any of the Huntsville seeking games?

Even though the object is there, it's just hidden.

And you probably looked right at it several times, but your brain was so focused, it had a senior moment, and the brain and eyes disconnected briefly causing you to assume it had disappeared then reappeared.

Answer 2

What may be of greater interest and what has been noted reliably in over 4 decades of investigation of psychokinetic (PK) phenomena is that both geomagnetic and electromagnetic fields are often present at abnormally high levels in environments where such activity takes place.

There seems to be a need for a local PK agent, a living person with a specific psychological and physiological disposition as well as that agent must be located in a suitably active environment characterized by magnetic fields as described.

It has been stipulated that this may in fact be a testable condition and one investigator is currently working on creating a lab environment based on this hypothesis.

Answer 3

You're talking about relativistic effects of gravity changes, but the changes in local gravity are far too small for any noticeable effects to occur. For example, the changes in local gravity you might expect are 50 microgals for tidal changes, at most 1.5 microgals for latitude changes, and around 300 microgals per meter for elevation changes. 1 gal = 1 cm/s/s = 0.01 m/s/s. To calculate the relativistic effect, you're dividing the gravitational potential energy by the speed of light squared, which is 300,000,000 m/s x 300,000,000 m/s !!!  So you can see the effect is negligible with a little math.

Modern super-conducting gravimeters are used by geologists for measuring changes due to tectonic and volcanic activity, and also changes in groundwater, surprisingly enough. These detectors are incredibly sensitive and pretty reliable.

There are less expensive equipment options to detect relative changes in gravitation besides a superconducting detector. A Worden type spring gravimeter can detect maybe within a 10 microgal accuracy and is probably the least expensive kind of gravimeter (still quite spendy nonetheless), but they are extremely sensitive instruments and wouldn't fare too well on a typical ghost hunt.

Answer 4

Gravity is a function of mass. Earth does not change mass, so the field of gravity does not change.

Answer 5

Maybe but I am just guessing here!

Answer 6

but then how do you explain people SEEING ghosts?

If gravity changed that would only cause things to float or fall, not FLY across a room, or down a hallway. Also, I do not believe there's a way to "measure" gravity.

But, putting all that aside, you do make a very interesting and original argument. :-)

Answer 7

To my knowledge, there is absolutely no method of reliably measuring gravity, though there are plenty of machines that report to measure its effects on objects (such as microgravitational fluctuations in weight). However, none of these machines has anything remotely resembling scientific validity.

If you know something I don't, please say so!

Answer 8

"the hedd" brings up a very good point about your brain focusing so hard that you actually dont see what you are looking for.  Go to the link below and read whats there before scrolling down at all.  Be honest and come back and tell us how you did.  The point to this is that I believe the human brain is so complex and we use so little of it.  I think on rare occasions, just for a few seconds, our brain works in ways we dont understand and see things that are maybe in a different dimension or from a different time due to the reasons MR P is talking about.

http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-50.htm