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Just for fun, imagine this scenario:

Three years after the LHC is turned on, we discover new dimensions and are able to collect data from them. One of them, we start receiving data. We are able to decode it by sending data to it. We eventually realize we are communicating with the energy of those who died and entered another dimension.

"Impossible to describe with your words, but it is real and amazing"

How would that change the world?

@withawhy,

I'm guessing that the world wouldn't change at all, because as a result of a "mysterious fire" the LHC would be shut down and all data would be lost before it reached the public. Can you imagine what this data would do to organized religion?

I tend to lean a bit toward the dark side, so my first thought was what if instead of voices telling us how amazing it was, all we picked up was a bunch of people screaming.

@TickTockMan,

I've seen a movie... which leads me to believe... that the ability to talk to the dead is not a good idea. TickTockMan... you hit the nail right on the head. What if they are screaming?

I saw White Noise... no thanks. no thanks.

@TickTockMan,

TickTockMan wrote:

what if instead of voices telling us how amazing it was, all we picked up was a bunch of people screaming.

hahaha :bigsmile:

@VideCorSpoon,

VideCorSpoon;28585 wrote:

I saw White Noise... no thanks. no thanks.

I haven't seen this. Is it worth watching, or is it like most movies of this ilk that I seem helplessly drawn to at the video store that make me wish I had those 90 minutes of my life back? I'm still looking for a refund on Mothman Prophecies. . . .

@TickTockMan,

Take the valuable time you wasted from watching The Mothman Prophecies, multiply that by infinity, take that to the depth of forever, and you still will barely have a glimpse of what I'm talking about when I say how bad the film really was

White Noise will break your conception of the space/time continuum and the relativity of valuable time. Though the initial draw was there from the one minute commercial that showed basically the best parts... it was inevitably meh. Like the movie When a stranger calls.... hot girl, insane eyebrows... good movie? Not really.

@withawhy,

If we could communicate with the dead, the world would become even more f***ed up than it already is. Think about how many people obsess over their dead loved ones. Now imagine that they could all talk to the deceased. I would keep going, but I am sure you get the picture. If grandma could actually talk to dead grandpa she would be weirder than she already is.

@Theaetetus,

Theaetetus;28591 wrote:

If we could communicate with the dead, the world would become even more f***ed up than it already is. Think about how many people obsess over their dead loved ones. Now imagine that they could all talk to the deceased. I would keep going, but I am sure you get the picture. If grandma could actually talk to dead grandpa she would be weirder than she already is.

Not to mention if people could communicate with their dead pets . . . yikes.

Good money in it though. Witness this reprehensible clown: John Edward - International Psychic Medium - The only official website worldwide.

@VideCorSpoon,

VideCorSpoon;28589 wrote:

Take the valuable time you wasted from watching The Mothman Prophecies, multiply that by infinity, take that to the depth of forever, and you still will barely have a glimpse of what I'm talking about when I say how bad the film really was

Ha ha! That makes me think of a quote from a movie I still enjoy: "Your suffering will be legendary -- even in Hell." -- Hellraiser

@TickTockMan,

TickTockMan wrote:

Not to mention if people could communicate with their dead pets . . . yikes.

Good money in it though. Witness this reprehensible clown: John Edward - International Psychic Medium - The only official website worldwide.

I loved that episode of South Park where they debunked John Edward's methods.

Could you imagine an eight year old that becomes way too attached to the goldfish that the cat eats every other week, by the time they would be an adult. The horror.

"You're suffering will be legendary--even in hell" Now that is classic.

@withawhy,

Well... we would know their is an afterlife...

@Afallucco,

Afallucco;28600 wrote:

Well... we would know their is an afterlife...

Now that's a discouraging thought . . .

@withawhy,

We seem to have a difficult enough time communicating with the living, let alone doing so with the dead.

@jgweed,

talking with the dead, I would imagine would cause an addiction for some too only talk to the dead. like if you felt like a total outcast, then talking to the dead would be another outlet for acceptance. maybe.

@TickTockMan,

could you explain?

@Joe,

Joe;28640 wrote:

talking with the dead, I would imagine would cause an addiction for some too only talk to the dead. like if you felt like a total outcast, then talking to the dead would be another outlet for acceptance. maybe.

That's assuming that the dead have any interest in hearing anything that we could conceivably have to talk about.

I mean, c'mon . . . they're in the afterlife, for Pete's sake. Do you suppose they'd be real excited to spend their time talking to someone with an inferiority complex whining about their lack of acceptance?

@TickTockMan,

TickTockMan;28666 wrote:

That's assuming that the dead have any interest in hearing anything that we could conceivably have to talk about.

I mean, c'mon . . . they're in the afterlife, for Pete's sake. Do you suppose they'd be real excited to spend their time talking to someone with an inferiority complex whining about their lack of acceptance?

They would if they would like to screw with the person's mind :bigsmile:

@withawhy,

I wonder how long it'd take for CERN scientists to develop dual-dimension compatability software programs so as to be able to interact with different dimensions.

This'll do no good of course because the dead would want more than to just talk to us. They'd want the whole slice of cake and find a way to make those black holes from the LHC a little more of a dramatic reality. Then we'd all be dead.

IMO, the dead should stay dead, not personifying living qualities; and the alive should stay alive, until their time has come of course.

@withawhy,

You guys watch way too much television.:detective: Ha.

William

@William,

Relatively speaking no. And tv is not bad. It gets my brain going because then I have to analyze and think about it and theorize about what if until its 1:00 am at night and I come up with some idea that is to impossible to hard to prove, like a paradox, sort of..... or maybe that's just me getting tired.

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