How Much Does Your “Ghost” Weigh? | Because Science 

Chill guys, this is Kyle's ghost, not a repost.

Because science is like the ex that knows they screwed up the best relationship they'll ever have and just keep going back to old photos and videos to punish themselves.

How does antman breathe if he is smaller then oxygen molecules

The "21 grams experiment" was rejected also because the body wasn't isolated and some gas has been expelled from the dead body in the time interval from first measurement and the last measurement.

I remember seeing a film in the theater in 1978 called Beyond and Back about near death experiences. That film dramatized that doctor "weighing the souls" of dying patients. In the dramatization, terminal patients immediately lost 21 grams at the moment of death. It's funny, I remembered that film being narrated by Orson wells, but I looked it up and it wasn't him. Then I was thinking it must have been the "In Search of Noah's Ark" film I remember seeing as a kid. Wrong again. It was "the Man Who saw Tomorrow" about Nostradamus that Orson Wells narrated.

what if this is just a ghost version of kyle? How do I known this? *because science*

hey its my favorite off-brand thor

Our consciousness is probably an emergent property of the different regions of our brain working together.

The brain is not all you are. It contains all your memories but there are glands around the body which contribute to emotional states and such things. Without those you are not the same person. At least as far as I see it. This also puts the idea of a head transplant in a different light.

Very interesting hypothesis to make you think for this one, but so many possibilities with it, maybe we can one day know for sure, great vid

The problem with transferring a human into a homunculus is that you'd need the whole brain or you'd end up with something like me. The Major isn't human she's a Tulpa Simulacra of a girl that died.

1 petabyte now fits easily into a large box (LTT built a petabyte into a storanator about a year ago and recently upgraded to about 1.5 petabytes because it was getting full). In a few years, it'll fit onto something the size of a human brain.

So how would data be dealt with after the ghost transfer? Like how would more data be applied when learning new things like language or tech skills, would there be a limit to the amount of data that the ghost could hold?

I remember mention of old experiments where people tried to measure the difference in weight at the moment of death. I don't remember them reaching any conclusions.

This guys awesome, I love this channel.

man i just watched cuple of ur older vids and wanted to check ur channel out and just seeing ur view count ruined my day. you should be getting wayyy more views

5:02 this probably could be used to explain why your limb feels so heavy when you're awake but the limb is asleep, or could even be used to explain why you can't during sleep paralysis. It's because your "soul" doesn't have the strength to move objects (or heavy objects at least).

Having played Destiny 2 a lot recently, I thought Kyle would be discussing the physics behind Ghost.

Hah, when I saw the title of the video, I immediately thought of Duncan MacDougall's experiments where he tried to measure the quantifiable weight of the human soul but got blasted by the scientific community for the ethical and scientific viability of his experiments.

Hi kyle. Big fan of your nerdy stuffs. According to Duncan MacDougall, he found the difference between the weight of his patient immediately after death may be due to stopping of blood flow (does that immediately stop, or Duncan lied to us in the context "immediately ", maybe the difference occurred sometime later. I don't know ) . As you can see , when you are on a weight scale, if you move slightly the reading displaces compared to the reading when you stand still. But, that for a large scale difference. When you increase the precision, you can observe such small displacement caused due to gradual stoppage of blood flow. Hope you read it and react in footnotes😉

Have you already make a video on Near Death Experience?

Given that it’s you your identity being stored on SSD you’re going to want to make sure it has backups. The question wouldn’t be to store it but how many backups will you have. You would also want a kind of analytical program to compare the copies to address any discrepancies in the data. Correcting bad sectors and making it available to change out faulty drives. Striping and Mirroring would help in writing speed, and the availability to restore from backups. This isn’t going to change your number much even if you added a million copies of data the weight doesn’t change, but the storage device does. This had been the thoughts I was contemplating when you had discussed your Jupiter brain idea. Once we get to the point of having a storage device that size or at least large enough to store an individual. I don’t know the technology we will have to store backups and such but would see this as a priority or we would see data loss happen very quickly due to speed issues heat and hardware failures.

I'll uhhh, take your word for it...

The "ghost" of my lunch probably weighed a pound and a half, which is why I had to chop it up before I flushed.🤔 *The More You Know🌈🌟* *"NUFF SAID"*

@Kyle with the whole arm ripping bit if her fingers were mechanically locked out and didn't fail before the elbows did she could totally rip her own arms off. Body buliders face this reality with torn muscles and tendons you just remove the failure point effect on the joint in question.

Now could you make a video about captain cold? Now would it be possible to recreate captain Cold's cold gun using the cold plasma technology that we have today, like a flamethrower but with cold fire.

I feel I’ve seen this video before. Also, here’s a question, is Arrowverse’s Batwomans’ bike strong enough to stop a van with just two hooks; one anchored to the ground and one for the van.

• So what is the total weight of all the data in the world? 🤔 • Curious that they re-uploaded this just a couple of days after someone referenced it in Kyle's live-stream (which Kyle didn't recognize and breezed past). 🤔 People have conjectured about his sudden departure from Nerdist and considering his reaction when someone asked if the Facility is in the Void, I think it's safe to assume it was less than amicable. Shame. :-|

Can you do a video on General Grievous? Why you would or would not want to be?

Kyle o Kyle can you do a video on "THE ATOM" from the DC universe on his PHD Quatum Bio belt.

Still 21g? Any sub atomic particles or charges our bodys can hold or manifest?

I'm surprised you never did a theory if you can become robocop

Would we not have to factor in the weight of the robobrain that were put into? After all data can't exist without a medium of storage for it to be in.

Love that series of movies

I’m actually setting up a lab to build exactly the type of bodies talked about in the beginning. Crazy world we live in eh?

I felt like that when I was younger

Conscious immortally sounds awesome!

Your ghost does not weigh anything. A person's soul exists in a different dimension, and in our, physical world, is immaterial.

This kind of science is indeed interesting, but one major flaw becomes whether or not consciousness is indeed separate or connected to the body. If it's connected, we could only hope to really just copy the conscious mind to a computer, which means that we as us would still exist within our bodies, and then cease once bodily function ceases. The copy would remain. If, though, consciousness is indeed separate from the body, then such a true transfer might indeed be possible. That then opens another can of worms because the consciousness could then be equated to a soul. Either way, we as ourselves could be fully transferred and awakened in a new body. It then becomes a question as to whether or not science can accept the possibility of a soul or ghost existing, because it's very existence independent of the body would be required in order to actually transfer you, yourself, into a new body, and not simply creating a copy. That's just my thoughts though.

Hi Kyle. Big Fan of your show. I have something I would like you to try and address, either as an episode, or even a personal response would be great, really. I just watched the Rick and Morty episode, "A vat of Acid" from Season 4, and had some queries, now that portal usage has become clearer: Point 1 : In the many world's subset of portal travel, for example, as seen in the current episode "the vat of acid" episode, the repeated travel of the episode's Morty through various 'worlds' leads to a situation where, even if the conservation of mass is satisfied (as the Morty's are simply liquefied), the information contained in the wave function that represents a particular version of Morty is not, in fact, it's highly likely that the information is stored in the remote control, as, when Rick converges the wave function into one 'net Morty', the observed 'world' function collapses to contain elements of all of the previous worlds mentioned above. In that case, one particular 'world' wave function, is now the net result of all above world wave functions, and hence, these worlds, and the choices that led to them, either do not exist any longer, and one world wave function is simply contains vastly more information, or are permanently entangled with each other, such that, any choice that led to the formation of any of the those 'worlds' now imply that all those choices must be made or not at all (the 'time' of said choice, and branching world formed by the same, would also be entangled, since the wave function has that as well, which would mean that any possibility of time being parallel ( i.e. to put it crudely, 20th May, 1300hrs IST in one world = 20th May, 1300hrs IST in the other one ) should be kicked out of the window, and any subsequent travel to these entangled 'many worlds' should now have a shifted time axis from the observer's point of view?? To cut my rambling short, any interaction between many world options should prevent subsequent travel to the same world, while simultaneously creating a load that has to be absorbed by 'something'. Unfortunately, my understanding is insufficient for me to resolve these ideas, but I would love to hear your thoughts on this issue. Point 2 : On the issue of travelling to entirely separate multiverses, as Dr. Tyson pointed out, the fundamental laws have a chance of being different, and hence, my assumed solution to the problem would be that the 'portal liquid', whatever it might be, forms a film that isolates the subject passing through it from the laws of the alternate multiverse, forming, for all intents and purposes, a 'law bubble', however, this law bubble too must interact with said universe, and hence, should Rick and Mortys travelling to other universes actually look like humanish blobs of utter 'blackness', surrounded by a halo of visible light, part of the energy give off by the constant micro-annihilation happening at the contact 'surfaces' where the two sets of universe wave functions interact?? Presumably, the light given off by the annihilation are simply the collapsed form of the interaction based on the observer, and furthermore, that their very ability to interact with the alternate multiverse, and any objects/people etc. contained within, is observer outcome dependent?? Are they consuming said 'portal fluid' , and hence, depleting their universe?? Again, I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter. If what I have written above is nonsensical drivel, I apologise, and can only say that my limited knowledge and comprehension led me to these conclusions in the 30 odd minutes while watching the episode. Please do recommend some books and/ or papers on the topic(s), if you don't mind. Thank you, and please take care of yourself. Regards

I think it would be interesting to go at it a different way. Start with the 26g difference and calculate the energy from that. See where this idea and the one tried in this video collide

If there's something strange, In your Neighbourhood? Who you gonna call?

So glad to see you back, Kyle. This isn't the same without you

You should do the science about the show called "into the night" its on Netflix. Thanks

Posting this just 1 minute after Kyle posts his own latest video to his own channel. Its like your internet stalking your Ex.

1995 ghost in the Shell is epic

My body is a flesh mech and my brain is the pilot

I'm confused, and perhaps a bit behind the info curve. I thought Kyle quit this show..? Was there reconciliation?

Wait a second? Why ya'll reposting old stuff now that the main host is gone. I just found his new channel and you guys are posting the same time he does?! That's shady and messed up.

I read in a book that human memory was equivalent to 3 Pb, was the book wrong or its other thing?

Iv always wondered if you could "download" a brain to say the cloud would you be able to and then send it across mass distance would that then in theory be teliportation? If that conchaseness include all the memory's and esperance of the orgainal? O->->->->>->->->>->->->->->O

I honestly would like to upload a copy of my Consciousness on the internet, but not my entire being. It'd be nice to exist in the real world, while having a digital copy running around in the internet. Then maybe, I could be in two places and have enough time in the day to do everything I need to. It's a grand idea I would entertain.

Imagine trying to upload 2.5 PB with modern tech

What would have to happen to gravity for us to bounce around on earth like on the moon

Imagine extracting the neurons and connecting them to artifical sypnases. Neurons dont age so its just when the computer dies when the neurons die. And dont forget the claustraum.

10¹² (10^12) is a trillion, what you had written out (10^15) at *4:20**/ **4:21* is actually a quadrillion.

Also haven't they made terabyte chips now so that's only 1000 of those to get a Peta byte maybe I'm miss understanding can I get help lol

wait a minute, in an episode about living forever you said your brain holds 3.5pb...so which is it

Luminous beings we are. Not this crude matter

6:15 weeellll technically would be no... wouldn't it? If you can be defined in data form (what ever it may be at the time) & if it can be "frozen" as in SSD not losing data when it loses power, then no, you could be copy pasta-ed & not be unique. Although you would be different as soon as 2 different "you" started to experience different things... But if you can be copied that would mean you can be put in a virtual setting & analyzed, becoming predictable & all that. What's so great about being unique anyway? GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA! :P

What is the weight of everyone on earth's ghost compared to air? Would we all float away?

Yes but doesn't the body weight less when we die (Because of the fact that some of our weight come from the things moving in our bodies).

Oh, I thought I was on Kyle's channel.

The dead body the guy weighed probably had a intestinal surge after they died, or he took their clothes off

who remembers when kyle was on Nerdist doing Because Science?

seven minutes 9 seconds to explain that ghosts are ethereal. . .

I love your job Kyle, and.... god damn it you are handsome man ! Keep up the wonderful work ;3

Pretty interesting!

I thought it was "word line" not "world line"?

Thanks ghost Kyle 👍 Man, and I thought being less than a speck on the galactic scale of things made me feel small and insignificant... 😵

Can you talk about how GN drives work from gundam 00

I think this proves that the afterlife exists.

I wonder why kyles markers doesnt even dry?

The nature of consciousness is still a mystery. But I do not think it is just memory and so storing the data of a brain would not be good enough.

I pointed to my stomach brain.

Wonder if he considered the emptied bowel

Not Ghost Recon?!

How long can they continue to milk Kyle before they run out of the backlog?

A ghost soul is 198 cm tall and weight 255 to 437 grams

What if the date transferred from your brain is just a copy of your consciousness and not actually you?

Actually a more interesting question is what if Duncan MacDougall's observation was *correct* and the weight loss of 21 grams was in fact the weight of the information that left the body. So lets take that 2.5 Petabytes/2 (1.25) and make that "x" and set the mass for 21 grams and solve for it. Well... when you rearrange things you take 21 * the c^2 (which I used the square of 300,000,000 mps) and divided by 10^ -15.... and... assuming Duncan was correct the patient on his table gave up not 2.5 Petabytes... but actually the human soul he measured gave up 1.89 Domegenegrottebytes or 209,832,151,654,154,632 Petabytes. If you want to a real ghost in shell you're going to need a bigger hard drive. Because science!

even if you manage to gather all your brain's data and make a digital copy of it, it still stays just that... a copy. A part of your brain needs to be present, the part where the "you" is... the decision maker, the thinker, dreamer, talker, the one that shows emotions... put the brain parts that are responsible for making you you together in a synthetic body and voilà you are possibly immortal (as long as the degradation of the brain cells are stopped and the brain continues to function normally... and the artificial body is taken care of) if someone argues that as long as the digital construction of your brain is exactly the same as the physical on, then you will continue to live in it even though your physical self is lost... I say that that's scifi bs right there... souls aren't real and you won't magically pass over to the digital brain. If we ever got to that point of copying brains in machines and this comes up, there's a simple test we could do to see if I was right or full of crap... connect a person to parts of his digital brain and disconnect that physical part accordingly (these have to be the vital parts)... if his conscience isn't obstructed by some degree, then he can indeed be 100% safely "transferred" to the digital world and you have my apology!

Got to say, I like this format more.

Who said that the electrons in your body are the only thing that make up your conscience?

I'd love to see this compared to the supposed weight of the soul (21 grams). How many petabytes would that be? About 525 trillion petabytes of data?

Aren’t I in my upper spine?

Wow, what a way to capitalize on Kyle.

your ghost still keeps its brain

I wouldn’t be me anymore if only my memory and consciousness were uploaded to a machine and digitized in some way. but I would accept a brain transplant - transferring my brain to another cyber body that is identical to the human body in all aspects (it could be of another appearance since I am not considered a good-looking person by society) and that has all the sensibilities and senses. then I would still be me because I am the brain that writes this text.

well we have 100 TB SSD now so we will need only 10 of them

So would a genius' ghost weigh more than a nit wits, because they have more "1s and 0s" of information? Cool video btw loved GITS!

If you take an empty hard drive and weigh it, and then fill it up and weigh it again, I doubt that the difference would be very great. So I don't think your "ghost" has any weight.

where is the drawn mustache of einstein?

When you write on the screen how are we not seeing the words in reverse? Are you writing backwards? 🤔

So, now that Kyle's gone... you just repost? Wow... Just wow...

So what you’re saying is that our spirits are lighter than air?

Oh bro... This is way too deep!

In my opinion we’re all just brains in flesh suits

On behalf of Whovians married to non-whovians, what would it take for a human to kill a dalek??

Why do people hate on this channel I love it