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Hire Usइनमें 5 पुरुष और एक महिला मरीज ऐसे थे जिनकी मौत हो रही थी।इनको खासतौर पर डिजाइन किए गए फेयरबैंक्स वेट स्केल पर रखा गया था। मरीजों की मौत से पहले बेहद सावधानी से उनका वजन लिया गया था। जैसे ही मरीज की जान गई वेइंग स्केल की बीम नीचे गिर गई। इससे पता चला कि उसका वजन करीब तीन चौथाई आउंस कम हो गया है।
ऐसा ही तजुर्बा तीन अन्य मरीजों के मामले में भी हुआ। फिर मशीन खराब हो जाने के कारण बाकी दो को टेस्ट नहीं किया जा सका। साबित ये हुआ कि हमारी आत्मा का वजन 21 ग्राम है। इसके बाद डॉ डंकन ने ऐसा ही प्रयोग 15 कुत्तों पर भी किया। उनका वजन नहीं घटा, इससे निष्कर्ष निकाला कि जानवरों की आत्मा नहीं होती।
अच्छी और सार्थक प्रस्तुती ..
जानकारी अच्छी है मगर अधूरी रह गयी और जहाँ तक हमे पता है आत्मा तो सब मे विराजमान है।
Fellow Massachusetts doctor Augustus P. Clarke took MacDougall to task for having failed to take into account the sudden rise in body temperature at death when the blood stops being air-cooled via its circulation through the lungs. Clarke posited that the sweating and moisture evaporation caused by this rise in body temperature would account both for the drop in the men's weight and the dogs' failure to register one. (Dogs cool themselves by panting, not sweating.) MacDougall rebutted that without circulation, no blood can be brought to the surface of the skin and thus no surface cooling occurs. The debate went on from the May issue all the way through December . . .
It would take a great deal of credulity to conclude that MacDougall's experiments demonstrated anything about post-mortem weight loss, much less the quantifiable existence of the human soul. For one thing, his results were far from consistent, varying widely across his half-dozen test cases:
1 "[S]uddenly coincident with death . . . the loss was ascertained to be three-fourths of an ounce."
2 "The weight lost was found to be half an ounce. Then my colleague auscultated the heart and found it stopped. I tried again and the loss was one ounce and a half and fifty grains."
3 "My third case showed a weight of half an ounce lost, coincident with death, and an additional loss of one ounce a few minutes later."
4 "In the fourth case unfortunately our scales were not finely adjusted and there was a good deal of interference by people opposed to our work . . . I regard this test as of no value."
5 "My fifth case showed a distinct drop in the beam requiring about three-eighths of an ounce which could not be accounted for. This occurred exactly simultaneously with death but peculiarly on bringing the beam up again with weights and later removing them, the beam did not sink back to stay for fully fifteen minutes."
6 "My sixth and last case was not a fair test. The patient died almost within five minutes after being placed upon the bed and died while I was adjusting the beam."
So, out of six tests, two had to be discarded, one showed an immediate drop in weight (and nothing more), two showed an immediate drop in weight which increased with the passage of time, and one showed an immediate drop in weight which reversed itself but later recurred. And even these results cannot be accepted at face value as the potential for experimental error was extremely high, especially since MacDougall and his colleagues often had difficulty in determining the precise moment of death, one of the key factors in their experiments. (MacDougall later attempted to explain away the timing discrepancies by concluding that "the soul's weight is removed from the body virtually at the instant of last breath, though in persons of sluggish temperament it may remain in the body for a full minute.")
Dr. MacDougall admitted in his journal article that his experiments would have to repeated many times with similar results before any conclusions could be drawn from them
---very nicely analysed & detailed by ashish---& we are always flattered by such old & unprooved experimentts & take it as rather confirmative hue, since these are done by west( our gulam habit will die-hard, when?)
Nice but Janwar ki bhi tau maut Hoti..Jeevan atma uske body se bhi niklti