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Orbs! - see here if you don't know what I mean

I was cleaning my sensor earlier and it all came back to me!

This was one of the major turning points in my marriage - when my now ex wife decided that this was the hobby for her, photographing the supernatural. I'm pretty sure I fell over laughing when she showed me Orb photos.

So I take it on such a levelheaded forum such as this we can discount such shostly occurances as pure bunkum?

Or do you believe...?
 
When we go we're a flat line on a monitor - that's it -game over man! :D
 
CT said:
When we go we're a flat line on a monitor - that's it -game over man! :D
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Yep, agreed!

A-Level physics and maths has given me a brain which seems to run purely on things that make sense and have a definitive answer - the supernatural fits neither of those criteria!
(Having said that, dark matter etc in physics is interesting, as it can't really be understood properly :cuckoo:)
 
lol surely thats a **** take

Alan Clogwyn said:
Orbs! - see here if you don't know what I mean

I was cleaning my sensor earlier and it all came back to me!

This was one of the major turning points in my marriage - when my now ex wife decided that this was the hobby for her, photographing the supernatural. I'm pretty sure I fell over laughing when she showed me Orb photos.

So I take it on such a levelheaded forum such as this we can discount such shostly occurances as pure bunkum?

Or do you believe...?
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Ah good ol dust specs...

I have a photograph taken by a friend and there appears to be someone standing to my right. He printed it out a couple of times, check the mamiya lens. We even retook the photo in the same place. Now that ones just strange... Must have been crap on the original neg.
 
I don't think orbs are ghosts, just simple oof dust.

However, until we have the scientific knowledge to prove it either way, stating ghosts/spirits do or do not exist is purely personal belief.
 
I had a wee in a graveyard once and thought I saw a ghost!





Was just wee steam
 
I have a few taken in tunnels in the dark (don't ask it's a long story) and my suspicians are also dust, although I do have a test lined up to prove/disprove it one way or the other.
I'm going to use 2 cameras at right angles using the on camera flash on one camera, if the orbs are really there they will appear on both camera, if the are close OOF dust they will only show on the one camera (the one with the flash) The problem is I have hurt my back and can't carry all the kit and 2 tripods half way up a mountain and climb in the tunnel which was tricky when I was well. So it's on hold for the moment till I'm better-ish.
 
Harvey_nikon said:
I don't think orbs are ghosts, just simple oof dust.

However, until we have the scientific knowledge to prove it either way, stating ghosts/spirits do or do not exist is purely personal belief.
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I like to keep an open mind on things, but being an old fashioned sort, I like to see some evidence which is even half believable, but it's sadly lacking.

If I have a single 'religious' thought it's that we may well come back numerous times. To call it reincarnation would be misleading - just another existence/awareness - a completely different person in fact, with no knowledge of previous lives - which you haven't in fact had.

Just think - you might be a Canon user next time round. :cool: :D
 
CT said:
If I have a single 'religious' thought it's that we may well come back numerous times. To call it reincarnation would be misleading - just another existence/awareness - a completely different person in fact, with no knowledge of previous lives - which you haven't in fact had.
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I'm not that optimistic :p I tend to side with the belief when you're gone, you're gone :)
 
dod said:
I'm not that optimistic :p I tend to side with the belief when you're gone, you're gone :)
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LOL. Well you are anyway under my theory Doddy - if you have another existence it's as someone else anyway. I'm not sure optimistic is the right word - knowing my luck I'll come back as a cock pheasant just in time for the shooting season. :D
 
CT said:
I'm not sure optimistic is the right word - knowing my luck I'll come back as a cock pheasant just in time for the shooting season. :D
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And it'll be a crap shot like Fracster who gets me! With his fourth barrel! :lol:
 
The reason given for orbs is that it is the flash reflecting off out of focus dust particles. That I don't discount. But what about when an orb appears when you haven't used a flash..? Which I have seen happen, not very often mind, but it does happen.
 
Ghost of Toolmakers past?

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Nope just a glob of dust on my sensor. (this is the shot that sparked the thread!) :lol:

:D
 
CT said:
I like to keep an open mind on things, but being an old fashioned sort, I like to see some evidence which is even half believable, but it's sadly lacking.

If I have a single 'religious' thought it's that we may well come back numerous times. To call it reincarnation would be misleading - just another existence/awareness - a completely different person in fact, with no knowledge of previous lives - which you haven't in fact had.

Just think - you might be a Canon user next time round. :cool: :D
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Only if you've lived a righteous life :p
 
however..........................

there is a girl ghost/apparition who appears on some A-road in some county

how about that for vagueness

seen lotsa times...will research
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If I shoot at f11 and upwards I always get some orbs in the corner of my picture. In the same place each time! Spooky...

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mathew, you ever considered that maybe your lens is haunted? and f11 releases the spirit from it's otherworldly crypt?
 
"When we go we're a flat line on a monitor - that's it -game over man! "

not strictly true, as your cells break down, reactions occur that release "spikes" of electricity which an ECG monitor can pick up. Like wise, plenty of people are "dead" but still have cardio-electronic output. Wether this causes them to haunt photographs, I couldn't really comment!
 
CT said:
And it'll be a crap shot like Fracster who gets me! With his fourth barrel! :lol:
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OI!................I was never any good at BIFs, more likely the sixth if I could reload in time.......:lol:

Gimme a rifle and it`s a different ball game............;)
 
Who needs the supernatural when you have quantum physics. That's well weird. Reality isn't reality anyway. What we see quite often isn't there and most of what is solid, isn't. Shame the whole ghosts phenomenon attracts nutters or it would be more believable!
 
According to prof Brian cox....it's all [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER].
He should know, he's a prof!!
 
Islander said:
Eh? How?
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Because they don't really understand what they are doing, other scientists claim it could create a black hole, and it's already gone wrong at least once.
Now I'm no expert on black holes but I do know that one in Geneva would be bad news for a lot of people. ;)
 
swanseamale47 said:
Because they don't really understand what they are doing, other scientists claim it could create a black hole, and it's already gone wrong at least once.
Now I'm no expert on black holes but I do know that one in Geneva would be bad news for a lot of people. ;)
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They have a much better idea of what they're doing than you think. The scientists that claim imminent armageddon are the ones in the tinfoil hats :p

Any black hole created in the collision would be too small to sustain itself and would disappear in a flash of Hawking radiation. Even supposing it were to continue to exist, it'd be moving at a fair fraction of the speed of light and would simply escape never to be seen again. ;)

A quote from James Gillies ( a former research physicist at CERN):

CERN spokesman and former research physicist James Gillies also pointed out that Earth is bathed with cosmic rays powerful enough to create black holes all the time, and the planet hasn't been destroyed yet.

"Still, let's assume that even if Hawking is a genius, he's wrong, and that such black holes are more stable," Landsberg said. Nearly all of the black holes will be traveling fast enough from the accelerator to escape Earth's gravity. "Even if you produced 10 million black holes a year, only 10 would basically get trapped, orbiting around its center," Landsberg said.

However, such trapped black holes are so tiny, they could pass through a block of iron the distance from the Earth to the Moon and not hit anything. They would each take about 100 hours to gobble up one proton.

At that rate, even if one did not take into account the fact that each black hole would slow down every time it gobbled up a proton, and thus suck down matter at an even slower rate, "about 100 protons would be destroyed every year by such a black hole, so it would take much more than the age of universe to destroy even one milligram of Earth material," Landsberg concluded. "It's quite hard to destroy the Earth."
 
Weird how things in the world are related - earlier in the thread I mentioned my ex wife being photographer for a medium, well said medium has a 2 page spread in today's Daily Post! :eek:
 
Hmm if your eye can see more than film or a sensor, then why can't it see orbs? maybe time to invest in some reading glasses when cleaning your kit?
 
Islander said:
They have a much better idea of what they're doing than you think. The scientists that claim imminent armageddon are the ones in the tinfoil hats :p

Any black hole created in the collision would be too small to sustain itself and would disappear in a flash of Hawking radiation. Even supposing it were to continue to exist, it'd be moving at a fair fraction of the speed of light and would simply escape never to be seen again. ;)

A quote from James Gillies ( a former research physicist at CERN):

CERN spokesman and former research physicist James Gillies also pointed out that Earth is bathed with cosmic rays powerful enough to create black holes all the time, and the planet hasn't been destroyed yet.

"Still, let's assume that even if Hawking is a genius, he's wrong, and that such black holes are more stable," Landsberg said. Nearly all of the black holes will be traveling fast enough from the accelerator to escape Earth's gravity. "Even if you produced 10 million black holes a year, only 10 would basically get trapped, orbiting around its center," Landsberg said.

However, such trapped black holes are so tiny, they could pass through a block of iron the distance from the Earth to the Moon and not hit anything. They would each take about 100 hours to gobble up one proton.

At that rate, even if one did not take into account the fact that each black hole would slow down every time it gobbled up a proton, and thus suck down matter at an even slower rate, "about 100 protons would be destroyed every year by such a black hole, so it would take much more than the age of universe to destroy even one milligram of Earth material," Landsberg concluded. "It's quite hard to destroy the Earth."
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If they are anything like some of the so called scientists I have met they won't know which way is up never mind if it's safe or not:)
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
Weird how things in the world are related - earlier in the thread I mentioned my ex wife being photographer for a medium, well said medium has a 2 page spread in today's Daily Post! :eek:
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:shrug: I don't understand this obsession with a possible afterlife (or lack thereof)

The way I look at it, at some point every one of us is going to find out for certain what happens after death - and personally, I'm not in any rush to get there.
In the meantime, I'd rather just enjoy what I have now and not waste my time worrying about it. It's not as if I can change it if I don't like the answer, is it? :lol:
 
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