Do Nuclear Explosions Destroy Souls?

The Soul is spiritual,not any form of physical energy as we know it, I agree that Nuclear weaponry is immoral though, but the idea that “nuclear explosions destroy souls” is utter madness

J. K.

Can you really be sure? I hope you noticed that in my article I posed the concept in the form of questions. And in my conclusion, I started the sentence, “If this is actually true,” I was careful to indicate that I only consider this idea of nuclear explosions destroying souls as a possibility, rather than just saying outright that I believe it is so. Much is uncertain. But I maintain that the exact nature of the soul is equally uncertain. I can not say that I know the exact nature of the energy of which the human soul is composed. If it does exhibit measurable weight, as Dr. Duncan MacDougall’s research potentially indicates, then there may be no distinction between spiritual energy and physical energy. If they are one and the same, then the consequences are clear. At this point there are too many questions left unanswered for any of us to draw definitive conclusions. Until we can answer those questions, then the truly moral thing to do is get rid of these horrific nuclear hazards.

Sincerely,

Bill M. Tracer

dude, I can’t even express how un-scientific your article sounds. This is wonderful science fiction, but all but the most radical philosophers have completely discarded the idea of a soul comprised of mass-energy.

That said, I’ll take any argument against nukes and endorse it

A really interesting ultimate kind of rail gun that might be capable of destoying souls and perhaps created spirits in general might entail a system capable of accelerating charged particles to an energy at which they would become black holes based on the particle’s Lorenz length contraction and the reduction of their quantum mechanical wave function cross section based on the inverse dependence of the wavelength of the particle with its mass.

Imagine that somehow, a subatomic charged particle could be accelerated to an energy of 10 EXP 35 electron volts very quickly. Such a particle would be a black hole with a kinetic energy of ~ 10 EXP 16 Joules; the equivalent of 100 grams of mass. Such a black hole would not decay quickly with respect to the back ground reference frame (perhaps defined by the cosmic microwave background radiation as a universal reference frame) due to relativistic time dilation. A proton accelerated to 10 EXP 35 eV would obtain a relativistic gamma factor of about 5 x 10 EXP 25. Such a particle, I could imagine, could punch through any conceivable physical machine or element of infrastructure although it might not interact much with it because of its small cross-section for interaction.

I would imagine that the energy density of such a particle in large numbers could more than outdo the effects of Hell Fire given the discription of the painful effects of Hell Fire described by apparitions of persons who alledgedly appeared to their loved ones on Earth telling their Earth bound loved ones to pray for them and that they were confined temporarilly to the most painful levels of purgatory. Simmilar reports have been given by persons who supposedly went to Hell who have alledgedly appeared to their friends or loved ones warning their loved ones of the reality of Hell after their passing from this life and unfavorable judgement by God.

A beam of such particles produced by a mechanism of unheard of power production, perhaps powered by latent energy extracted from the zero point vacuum fields, could be a near ultimate death ray, possibly capable of not only destroying human souls, but the souls of any intellegent extraterrestrials and perhaps also able to destroy the pure spirits known as angels.

One could imagine a human civilization in the far distant future capable of accelerating a particle to a kinetic energy equal to the mass of the Earth. Note that an Earth massed black hole would have a diameter of about 1 centimeter and so a black hole accelerated to have a relativistic mass of the Earth could do great damage to any planet, satellite, or space craft it would pass through, even given its relatively small cross section. No technology in the universe could stop this baby!

Even if the equations of Special Relativity do not break down at ultra-relativistic velocities, the absolutely limiting value of C only limits the kinetic energy of projectiles to infinity with infinite destruction capability.

The possible violation of Special Relativity such as has been proposed in the Theory of Doubly Special Relativity might even permit particles to be accelerated beyond the speed of light to enable superluminal velocity death rays. In Double Special Relativity, the speed of a photon in a vacuum is related to its energy. Accordingly, the difference in velocity of an optical light photon and a nuclear reaction energy level gamma ray would be so small the gamma ray would outrun the optical light photon by only milliseconds after having traveled a distance of a billion light years. However, as the energy of a photon approaches the Planck Energy Level, its speed increases dramatically. In at least some versions of Doubly Special Relativity, the limiting value of the speed of a photon is infinite; an infinite number of light-years per second. I would not be surprised if sufficiently energetic baryonic particles could reach superluminal velocities as well.

The point to all of this is that I think massive projectiles will always be used as an instrument of armed conflict, whether offensive or defensive. Whether we like it or not, the proverbial gun is here to stay. But we need to be careful as a civilization both now and far into the future of what sort of weapons systems we construct. Do we really want to continue the developing weapons, some of which just might oneday have the ability to destroy pure spirits? I think we need to be pro-life rather than pro-death.

But you know, “Slightly Confused”, today’s radical philosophers are tomorrow’s wise teachers.

My father was told that nuclear weapons destroy the soul by a CIA operative who specialized in paranormal research. I don’t know if it’s true but it has disturbed me for most of my life. She said the soul is comprised of physical energy and that nuclear weapons destroy it at the molecular level.

A brilliant discussion. It is terrible and horrific. I personally feel that the soul is immortal. Nuclear weapons of course should never have existed. Another great share Bill.