Happy Halloween

You wan to be really frightened? Watch two physicist prove--scientifically--that ghosts don't obey known physical laws.

Comments

I don't wan to be frightened, but I'm ruddy to be.

Posted by ostap | October 31, 2007 8:54 AM

It was a graveyard smash...

Posted by Freddie | October 31, 2007 10:06 AM

But seriously...

It ALWAYS bothered me that in the movie Ghost Patrick Swazye could walk through walls but didn't fall through the floor.

And as for Vampires, I think Anne Rice and Joss Wheadon cleared that issue up by showing that not only does a Vampire have to suck your blood, but you have to suck theirs to be turned. The point was made more than once on Buffy that a Vampire wasn't likely to turn a lot of others into Vampires because then you'd likely have to spend the rest of your un-life with them and, as Satre said, hell is other people.

Yes. I am a geek. Shut up.

Posted by Kate | October 31, 2007 10:38 AM

Why should ghosts obey physical laws -- especially if they are figments of the observer's imagination?

Posted by Michael | October 31, 2007 11:53 AM

The ghost thing is kind of stupid... if ghosts are real, then they'd probably do things like walk on the ground and up stairs out of habit, only doing things like going through walls by conscious choice.

EI

Posted by Earnest Iconoclast | October 31, 2007 12:02 PM

I've written some Ghost Dad slashfic that totally covers this issue.

Posted by Ghostdadfan | October 31, 2007 1:42 PM

It's a great credit to zombie movies that the human population DOES often rapidly approach 0. So the analysis for vampires isn't really 1:1. God bless you, Romero.

Posted by Swimmy | November 3, 2007 5:43 PM