Mark,

Yesterday I sent you information regarding what a Human can see, and what type of equipment you should look into to expand upon that. I spoke to one of my employees (who has a Masters in Nuclear Physics); and another associate who has a BS in the same degree. To say the least, I learned a lot!

So, why do we see what we see? My simple answer goes like this: What a human is able to see is the excitement of an Electron around an atom that was energized by light. What does that mean? Well, let me draw some examples:



The big circle is an Atom, while the little circle is an Electron. When energy excites an electron (in the form of Light coming in contact with the electron, which light would be a photon), the Electron expands outward from its natural resting state. For example, let’s say that the same picture above has light (a photon) hits the electron. This is what occurs:



What occurred is that the electron became excited from being energized by the photon, causing it to expand outwards from the original “resting state” to the further outward state. The distance from the initial spot (resting spot) and its excited spot is the actual measurement for the wavelength.

So for instance, I explained earlier that we see the color “red” of an object. That means, light (a photon) was able to hit the Electron for that atom, and the excitement of the electron expanded out a distance of 700 nanometers. Thus, the color “red” is produced.

As you can imagine, you could have an atom produce quite a large variance of wavelengths; depending on the atom itself and the energy being applied to it.

To clarify a few more; let’s take our same atom and electron. Let’s then have light (more photons) hit it at a different angle that missed the electron:



In this example, what would a human see? Well, for the “most part” nothing. Why? No excitement of the Electron was produced, and therefore no wavelength or frequency of light is omitted from this atom for our eyes to see.

Different atoms do different things, depending on the molecule structure and make up. For the most part, molecules are very dense! There is a lot of empty space between them, and often times light will pass right by or through it. Again, depending on the molecule – it could do a variety of actions:

• An electron absorbs the photon (light/energy) and transforms it to heat (excitement)
• An electron absorbs the photon, and stores it (aka resulting in luminescence)
• An electron absorbs the photon, and sends it back via a reflection
• An electron is unaffected by the photon, and the photon continues on its path.

So, if you think about it – depending on what the molecule structure is made up of, a wild amount of things could occur.

So going back to the human being able to see an object, person, etc; follow this example: take an object which has color, and hover your hand over the top of it (where a light source would be aiming at it); thus casting a shadow. Notice the color changed. It became darker. What happened? Well, you still see the object right? That means SOME atoms and molecules are being energized; just not all of them. In this case, you have light (photons) bouncing off other objects hitting the one in your hand at other directions.

As you know, an object is made up of matter, from lots of atoms and the molecule structure. So in our example, say (some random %) 35% became excited. That’s why you see the color and the object still.

Ok… So now we know why we can see things, from a pretty elementary “high-level” understanding. So to the next point… This one had me stumped for a while. What color is invisible? What is the wavelength nm range?

What is the answer? None. Huh? What?

Take a glass window for example. It is a substance of matter. Yet, we can see through it. We can touch it, feel it, etc. But it is mostly invisible / transparent. Why is this? Well, this is because of how the molecules are bound together and arranged. Remember how I mentioned above that molecules are mostly dense? That is the structure of glass. The organization and structure makes it so that photons (light) pass through missing the Electrons! Thus, the photons (light) hit the object on the other side! Since this collision (between the photon and electron of that object) causes an excited situation, a wavelength is omitted from the objected and is passed back through the glass molecule structure and into our eyes.

Glass isn’t always transparent. You can title your head a specific way, or see a reflection of yourself sometimes. Why? This is actual light hitting one of the electron molecules of glass; and having it display a characteristic that I mentioned above. Make since? 

Ok, on to my last point of the night…

If Ghosts were roaming our physical land, had a molecule structure which allowed most of the light to pass through, had an electron reaction that mostly absorbed photons or produce an excited energy level wavelength outside the boundaries of our human vision; wouldn’t we bump into them?
Answer? Yes. – But why don’t we feel them? If I bump into a wall, I sure the hell know about it. This takes me into my next point; molecule bonding.

Molecules are held together via a form of bonding. There are a few major forms of which this occurs:

• Ionic Bonding
• Covalent Bonding
• Polar and Non-polar Covalent Bonding

How molecules are bonded, determine the “ouch” effect of walking into a wall. If it is a strong bond, then it will hurt. If it is a weak bond, you could walk right through it and not even know! This specific type is Covalent Bonding, which is basically when the groups of atoms share electrons, thus holding it together. Such examples of this are water or forms of gasses. You can put your hand in water and move it around or whiff your hand in the air over smoke and cut through it.

Let’s take another example. Say you set a business card on fire. The smoke would stream out of the burning paper, floating away. What is the smoke? It isn’t really “gas”; but rather a mass which isn’t coupled very strongly. Eventually the soot would settle somewhere; but you could easily take your hand and cut through the smoke/soot.
So imagine we have a ghost that is within our Electromagnetic world which:

1. Had a strong molecular structure that allowed a lot of light to pass through, thus the photon missing electrons completely (like the glass window example above).

2. Had an excitement reaction from a photon / electron collision that produced:

a. Absorption

b. Excited wavelengths outside the human visible range

c. Unaffected, thus allowing the photon to pass through

3. Had a molecular bond, primarily based on the Covalent Bonding; thus it would “be like” a gaseous mass that humans could walk through.

P.S. BTW, I was also doing some more thinking....

I can get a hold of a Geiger Counter that detects quite a bit of radiation ranges.. It will cost me about 250.00 bucks; but I think it would be fun. Would you be interested in using it, if I purchased it?

Also, as far as technology goes..... One side of all the ghost stuff is that it is all made up in the human brain. So why the hell don't you capture brain signals DURING the investigation? Yep, EEGs!

Ok, so EEGs can get very expensive. But... I can build you some! Imagine a portable EEG that is recording to a PDA or Laptop for that investigator throughout the entire investigation. If they think they saw something, I could rig a system that they could push a button - or they note the time some how. Then in the end, you come back and review their brain activity logs during their "experience".

Well, I can make it happen. Thanks a lot anyhow.. I think I have flooded you with all kinds of information from my POV which probably means crap to your group. Sometimes I get sucked into things where I shouldn't.

Mike

Mark,

After our lunch meeting today, I was again intrigued about the Ghost Investigations. Some of our conversation had me thinking. Some of the questions you had asked people on other investigations, or just general conversations with people also had me thinking. One of the questions, "Why do you do investigations in the dark?", stuck with me. So, I did some human anatomy research and have drawn a few conclusions. Interested in what I think? Read along....

So I started reading and learning about the human body; with such regard to how humans can see, what we see, etc. I know about this topic some, as I was telling you guys before to use eye patches (remember?) for the transition between dark and light areas. Besides my humor in 12 of you walking around like pirates, it could help!

Anyhow, here is what I found (in summary):

- What a human can see, is the reflection of light in the form of wavelengths. This is electromagnetic radiation, or otherwise simply called "light". Wavelengths can range anywhere from 2 nm in wavelength to 1500 nm.
- A typical human can see in wavelengths rated between 400 nanometers and 700 nanometers (nm).
- Within this range, each "color" of an object has a specific wavelength range. For example, the color red is 700 nm, where as the color Blue is 420 nm.
- Some humans, can see extended ranges between 380 nm to 770 nm (rare, but has been recorded)

Ok.. So what does this mean? Well to me:

If a ghost is something that can be seen by the human eye, which means the following:

A) The visual reflection a ghost puts out is typically less than 380 nm or greater than 770 nm

B) The ghost has the ability to alter the electromagnetic wavelengths to increase/decrease its physical presence to a range between 400 - 700 nm. Such examples would be:

1) Ghosts contain pigments, which alter the reflective light. Pigments are chemicals that selectively absorb and reflect different spectra's of light. When the light is reflected, wavelengths are missing; thus this can alter the color and appearance of an object or Ghost.

2) Ghosts contain Structural Color interference, which is similar to pigment. Yet, instead of absorbing light and reflecting different wavelengths, the interference of the wavelengths make the ghost or object appear differently than it truly is.

C) Specific circumstances (environmental variables) cause the presence to appear within the normal human wavelength range.

Some thoughts regarding some scientific reasons you may see things when you are doing investigations:

A) During an investigation, you or others may experience Synesthesia; which is the mental alteration of colors by perceiving letters and numbers or hearing sounds.

B) Experience Afterimages - this is simply an image / partial image that a human can see or make up (via the brain) when a strong light hits the human eye's photoreceptors. Thus, they become desensitized. When this occurs, colors are mostly are lacking due to the photoreceptors being "tired". The color of the image is also usually a "complimentary color"

C) Experience Color consistency - this is a phenomenon which occurs when limited colors are available (ie dark); and the eye / brain compensates any grey or neutral colors which they may see are missing from the image. An example is a shadow covering 1/2 a checker board. Imagine the square colors of the checker board being a dark gray and a light gray. Also imagine a green object casting the shadow on 1/2 the board. Technically, the shadow covering the light gray squares alters the wavelength to reflect a different color. Yet, your brain tries to compensate for this and makes the lighter squares "light" again to be consistent with the other ones... this is a common "image" trick you may have seen on the internet.

Also.... The question, "Why do you do your investigations in the dark?" here is my thought on this one:
1) You will never be able to see a ghost in the dark by human eyes. Why? Because of the human body and how eyes work. To see, you must view wavelengths bounced off of objects.
2) It is never truly dark on your investigations, is it?
3) Initial thought, if you want to see a ghost, turn the lights on. That would make you able to see them - right? Well, ONLY if they were in the range of 400 NM and 700 NM wavelengths. Then yes, turning on the light would make them pop up right next to you. But.... What if they are less or greater than that? Then the light makes NO difference - for your naked eye (or even a non-ir camera) WOULDN'T see them. Yet, if a ghost were real, and it was on these boundaries of light wave lengths, A lot of light could actually hurt your chances of seeing them from the perspective that you could get information overload from all of the other objects within the normal 400-700 range. Yet, being completely dark will hurt you as well - for you couldn't ever see them.& nbsp; So you do want some light, else you couldn't ever bounce it off the ghost to see it.

My recommendations for a more scientific approach:

1) In reviewing the wavelength chart (see attached) most of the time your equipment and investigators are only viewing human visible ranges, and IR ranges (IR is about 700 NM to 900 NM). Thus, you are not capturing the bottom spectrum of visible ranges! You should use some sort of equipment outside of your current visible range; specifically on the lower end.

2) Infrared Radiation has a wavelength range between 2nm and 1550 nm. Thermal Cameras can allow you to see a variety of ranges, some below, and some very high. It all depends on the camera, and the type of wavelength it reads (for example: you have near wave (nw), short wave (sw), medium wave (mw), and long wave (lw)) Thermal Cameras would allow you to see it.. but very $$$

3) Usage of a LENi Geiger Counter (modified version) with a pancake antenna. These things can pick up radiation types of Alpha radiation, Beta radiation, X Rays, and Gamma Rays. You can buy a modified one for about 250. Depending on the initial base, they can be very good. You can get computer software, chart the entire investigation.

4) Usage of a cell phone jammer. One of these will put a bubble around you, removing anywhere from 800mhz to 1.9 ghz of frequency. I need to do some more reading on this, but this could prevent outside influence.

Ok.. I have to work now!

Mike



P.S. I forgot to add a few things as well... I think it would be neat to be able to capture Gas elements, weather information (humidity, moisture, vibrations, etc)

A local place in KC with some cool equipment, and they rent stuff too!

Davis / Inotek; Kansas City
7 Town Square
Kansas City, MO 64116
Phone: 800-548-9409
Fax: 410-358-0252
http://www.davis.com

They have all kinds of neat stuff... Like UV meteres (290 - 390 NM range!!!! Right below the human visible element), humidity meters, vibration stuff, etc....