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Weighing the Soul: The Evolution of Scientific Beliefs (Paperback)

by Len Fisher (Author) "This book tells the stories of scientists whose ideas appeared bizarre, peculiar or downright daft to their contemporaries, but who stuck to their guns through..." (more)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Phoenix (15 Sep 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0753819910
ISBN-13: 978-0753819913
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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'This distinguished physicist describes here the evolution of scientific beliefs. Throughout history scientists have pursued ideas that seemed bizarre, peculiar or even downright daft, and in this sharp and witty overview of the great - and the not so great - moments of scientific experimentation, Fisher illuminates the true process of discovery.' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

'This is a highly readable, funny and thought-provoking history.' (HERALD (GLASGOW) )

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4.0 out of 5 stars My Review on the Chapter 1 "Weighting the Soul" of the book , 9 Mar 2007

By	Masayoshi Ishida "Non-Materialist" (Tokaimura, Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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