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Weighing the Soul [Kindle Edition]

Len Fisher (Author)

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'A witty insight into the impossible.' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1/11/04) )

'Len Fisher...takes us on a very accessible and entertaining tour of various historical moments where contemporary commonsense ideas about how the world worked clashed with scientific findings...WEIGHING THE SOUL is a mine of delightful oddities.' (Jerome Burne FT MAGAZINE (4.12.04) )

'On the surface this book is about quirky ideas, such as how to cure a headache by zapping yourself with an electric eel...Under the surface, it's about the evolution of scientific beliefs...While the tone is quite jolly, there's serious science among the slapstick. A good read for the curious.' (Sylvia Rainsford FOCUS MAGAZINE (March 2005) )

'...entertaining and astute...An engaging and relaxed, personal style to the text make this book easy to read. No matter what your academic background it is a genuine pleasure to read.' (Stuart Williams CHEMISTRY WORLD (February 2005) )

Jerome Burne, FT MAGAZINE (4.12.04)

'Len Fisher...takes us on a very accessible and entertaining tour of various historical moments where contemporary commonsense ideas about how the world worked clashed with scientific findings...WEIGHING THE SOUL is a mine of delightful oddities.'

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1221 KB
Print Length: 240 pages
Publisher: Phoenix (12 May 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B00550O1LE
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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My Review on the Chapter 1 "Weighting the Soul" of the book 9 Mar 2007

By Masayoshi Ishida

Format:Paperback

The book may be educative for lay readers on the current "Mainstream Science," but I have almost completed my paper for refuting the author's 'Convection Current' theory for trying to refute the 100 year old speculation of "the weight of soul substance" by physician Duncan MacDougall. Abstract of my paper follows:
Abstract: A scientific rebuttal has been given against a recently (in 2004) suggested "Convection Current" theory for explaining the unexplained sudden loss of weight of patients upon their deaths in the Duncan MacDougall's experiment published in 1907. Because the theory was originated from a review of the Count Rumford's experiment of "Weighing the Heat" in the 1780s, a review of the experiment has been given with thermo-hydraulic analyses. Also given are analyses of the MacDougall's experiment to examine the theory. These analyses have shown that there is no possibility for the convection air currents to explain the MacDougall's data, because (1) there is no possibility of a sudden occurrence of a change in the convection currents upon human death because of the thermal inertia of dead body with a shortest time constant of 4 hours, (2) convection air current required to hydrodynamically compensate the reported apparent loss of weight (10 to 70 gf) is too energetic (30 to 104 cm/s updraft required against the 1 to 2 m2 bed bottom or more than 2 m/s downdraft on the weight) to be realized upon human death, and (3) the theory is wrong from the start because the suggested "convection currents" definitely give results that are contrary to the experimental data of both Rumford's and MacDougall's. A speculative idea has been described about how to understand the MacDougall's results based on the existing psychical knowledge.

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