Human souls weigh 21 grams?

More than 100 years ago, an American doctor who did an incredible study measured the mass of human souls.

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This unique experiment was conducted on 6 fatal patients. These patients are placed on special Fairbanks industrial scales before they die. Dr. MacDougall plans to weigh each person's body weight before and after their death to determine the weight change measured by this high-precision scale. The selected patients were in a dying condition, including 5 men and one woman, and 2 of them had tuberculosis.

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Along with four other doctors, Dr. MacDougall carefully measured the weight of patients before they died. When they took their last breath, an interesting event happened.

'Suddenly, immediately after death, the needle weight suddenly decreased and there was no sign of a rebound. The weight loss is about ¾ ounce (ie about 21 grams), ' wrote Dr. MacDougall.

The experiment was conducted on the next patient and gave similar results. Dr. MacDougall realized that he had discovered something extraordinary. A piece of news in the New York Times on March 11, 1907 recorded a historic moment: 'When life ends, the weight of the needle suddenly drops and the results are wonderful, there seems to be something medium. separated from the body. Immediately the usual mass losses after death were calculated, but we still lack one ounce. '

Dr. Duncan MacDougall

All 5 doctors performed measurements and compared the results between them. Not all patients lose when a body mass is the same, but the weight loss appears. Unfortunately, only the results from four patients were measured because of technical errors, two patients died before doctors could install the device.

So where is the weight loss? Doctors have calculated all the possible losses such as the amount of air in the lungs or body fluids but still cannot explain the reason for 1 ounce being lost. In the third patient there was an interesting change that the body mass did not change immediately after death but a minute later the body weight was reduced by 1 ounce. Dr. MacDogall explained this difference as follows:

"I believe that in this case, the soul of the man is still floating in the body after dying for a minute before it is free, There is no way to calculate it, I think that difference is due to the different temperament of each person '.

After testing and consulting with other participating doctors, it was determined that the average weight loss of each person was ¾ ounce. Dr. MacDougall concluded that human souls weighed 21 grams.

Dr. MacDougall conducted similar experiments on 15 dogs. Experiments show no change in weight after they die. MacDougall concludes that this may indicate that only humans have souls.

Does the soul really weigh 21 grams?

H.LAV.Twining, a physics teacher at Los Angeles Polytechnic High School tried a similar experiment on mice in 1917. His conclusion is consistent with that of Dr. MacDougall. There is no deviation of weight when the mice die.

Dr. MacDougall is a respected doctor of Haverhill and is the head of the Research Society in this area for 6 years before the official experiment. Although this experiment is considered unethical in modern times and it is still a unique experiment that draws criticism from various religions.

Dr. MacDougall acknowledges that more research is needed to test the results, but after these experiments, Dr. MacDougall redirected the possibility of capturing soul images through the camera when a person passed. life Unfortunately, the doctor's career has not achieved any remarkable achievements since the experiment of soul mass. Dr. Duncan MacDougal died in 1920.