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So,since there are almost no threads about anything considering ghosts,aliens,telekinesis,telepathy or any other paranormal subjects,I decided to make one.So,do you believe in ghosts or something of a similar form?Do you believe in aliens or any other form of life that could be out there?Have you or some of your friends ever encountered any paranormal activity?
 
The Universe is infinite therefore the chance of anything ever occuring ever and always is infinite for some location. Everything is true for everywhere.

/thread
 
There probably isn't any threads because from what I've seen Cubers tend to be quite rational.
I'm just going to plant my Skeptic's flag here and see where the thread goes :)

EDIT: MalusDB, did you reread that before you posted? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the physical universe (that is a universe with anything in it other than just energy) isn't infinite.
 
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ghosts: no
aliens: The universe is so large it would be a waste of space (pun intended) if there were none, but they probably have never been on earth
telekinesis: I believed in it for a while, until I found out how the demonstration I saw in real life and actually was able to do worked. so I stopped believing
telepathy: It might be possible in the future, by either technical means (a device reading your mind waves and sending it to another device connected to someone elses brain, an back) or evolution (wouldn't see why though, sound is a great medium) but for now, no.
 
MalusDB said:
The Universe is infinite therefore the chance of anything ever occuring ever and always is infinite for some location. Everything is true for everywhere.

/thread
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Is the Universe infinite?

I don't believe in ghosts and I don't believe that aliens have visited us and been filmed doing it. I do believe that there is a form of life outside Earth.
 
MalusDB said:
The Universe is infinite therefore the chance of anything ever occuring ever and always is infinite for some location.
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There's an infinite number of positive numbers so at least one of them has to be negative.

Oh and I don't know what you mean with "infinite chance", but probability only goes up to 1.
 
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Stefan said:
There's an infinite number of positive numbers so at least one of them has to be negative.

Oh and I don't know what you mean with "infinite chance", but probability only goes up to 1.
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Wow,I've also always thought if the universe is infinite then everything you can imagine has to exist somewhere in it.So,are you stating that this is wrong?Are you sure you are correct?The Universe isn't always so simple.There are probably many things out there the human mind can not and will not ever understand.We have no idea how limited are brains actually are.
 
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rubikmaster said:
I've also always thought if the universe is infinite then everything you can imagine has to exist somewhere in it
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Doubtful. Like I showed, infinity alone doesn't mean much.

rubikmaster said:
So,are you stating that this is wrong?Are you sure you are correct?
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Kinda. The reasoning is wrong. Not sure about everything existing. Too lazy to think of something that simply doesn't exist (like a negative number among the positive numbers). Maybe something like a sun covered in snow, for reasonable definitions of sun and snow. In general, something that defies the laws of the universe, ask a physicist maybe.

rubikmaster said:
We have no idea how limited are rains actually are.
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Um...
 
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rubikmaster said:
Wow,I've also always thought if the universe is infinite then everything you can imagine has to exist somewhere in it.
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Well firstly the universe (probably) isn't infinite in size... (the observable universe is 90+ billion lightyears in diameter), It's not infinite in content (there are probably 170 billion galaxies, with say ~100 billions stars each), it's beginning wasn't an infinite time away (only 13.7 Billion years), but what about an infinite stretch forward... possibly, but there is one big problem... the sun is only 4.5 Billion years old but in say another 5 billion years it's going to turn into a red giant and then die away - and the earth will be destroyed with it (though life on earth will have long since died out). All the floating matter left of our solar system will eventually be swallowed up by the black hole at the center of our galaxy - and all other stars will fall into whatever blackholes are nearest... at some point pretty much everything will be inside blackholes. Expansion will see these black holes travelling over the universe's horizon so they will never have contact with one another, and over a LONG LONG time they will be slowly leaking (Hawkins) radiaton - lowering their mass until they eventually fade away... all that will be left is low levels of energy, which will disperse, cool down and eventually fade to nothing, while the universe will still go on, just empty of anything meaningful.

Now, in that time, could you say: "The Universe is infinite, therefore there must at some place/time be a version of New York that's exactly the same as our current one, only the Statue of Liberty glows pink." Well, no. In the small period of time that there actually are stars and planets and life, there are still a limited number of planets, so the chances of another one being almost exactly the same as ours is still incredibly unlikely.
 
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LOL i've gone through fazes where I can't sleep at night because I'm freaked out by different stuff, and ghosts $ aliens was one of them.

Ever heard of the slenderman?
 
Escher said:
I believe in heart of the cards.
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You're my hero.

On topic:I believe all of that to a certain extent. For example: Aliens probably do exist but they aren't the bug eyed freaks we made for ourselves, and are more than likely similar to us. Ghosts are tormented or forgotten people who's souls cannot rest.(Some may link this to telepathy).

Generally there are realistic concepts for all of what is mentioned and more, but some stuff is just flat out ridiculous and unrealistic.
 
I don't agree with talking about ghosts and aliens in the same thread. One is most likely to exist, the other, well, all laws of physics would need to be rewritten for them to exist.
 
The topic of aliens here is not "does extraterrestrial life exist elsewhere in the universe?" (because the answer to that is "probably"), but rather "does intelligent extraterrestrial life visit Earth in the form of UFOs and does the government try to cover it up?" (the answer to which is "extremely unlikely and not backed up by any credible evidence")
 
MalusDB said:
The Universe is infinite therefore the chance of anything ever occuring ever and always is infinite for some location. Everything is true for everywhere.
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Wow and no. Our universe is about 14 billion years old (or 6000, who knows). It has been expanding that entire time. Something which is already infinte in size can't, by definition, expand.

Oh and to relpy to the OP I don't believe in any supernatural stuff. As for aliens, the fact that we exsist implies that life must exsist outside of our planet just from a statistical POV IMHO.

ZamHalen said:
Aliens probably do exist but they aren't the bug eyed freaks we made for ourselves, and are more than likely similar to us.
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I would go completey the opposite way and say that the image of a grey 4 limbed large eyed creature is far too close to us to be a 'typical' alien. I'm not saying that there can't be aliens like that but we are carbon based lifeforms which are 60% water and look at the variety of life that exsists on Earth. Aliens don't have to breath oxygen or survive on water nessesary to live so their appearence could be considered ridiculously strange to us.
 
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My cousin has talked to ghosts, and I've seen one.
Ghosts don't live in America, and research proves that they exist.

cube-o-holic said:
Wow and no. Our universe is about 14 billion years old (or 6000, who knows). It has been expanding that entire time. Something which is already infinte in size can't, by definition, expand.
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He meant the universe has infinite space, so anything anywhere could exist.
 
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