What if you are trying to introduce your cat to your home – and your house is haunted? How to present your new cat to the ghosts that, well, can be part of your family?

Yes, I know, most people probably raise a scornful nostril on this. I suspect that most do not believe in the supernatural, and to tell the truth, you should not either.

I have a scientific basis, having graduated in chemistry and worked as an industrial chemist for many years. As such, I am fully aware that science does not recognize the Supernatural.

Now, I have to qualify. In the 1970s there was a constant movement by the scientific community to investigate supernatural phenomena, and a whole number of the journal Science was devoted to her. After several years of research, the community concluded that the supernatural does not exist – mainly due to supernatural phenomena are not reproducible.

For a fact to be determined by the scientific method must be reproducible – identical results should be obtained under identical conditions for all researchers to repeat the same experiment. Because of this, science has concluded that the supernatural does not exist. The experimental results were not repeatable.

It was susceptible to the Scientific Method.

But the nagging question remains: if a measurable phenomenon is not reproducible, it means that it is not there?

Modern quantum physics has reopened the possibility of other realms that can not be measured or perceived. Stephen Hawking has suggested that the reality we are nothing more than a statistical summary of all possible parallel realities – none of which can be measured directly – that arise because of the options, well, we've done.

Now, I'm not a quantum physicist, but for me this would indicate that there are indeed other realms beside which we live we can not see.

But maybe your cat can. In particular, there is a mystique surrounding the black cat, I have tried to discredit my article "The Black Cat is just a cat." I still hold my belief that there is "bad luck" associated with a black cat, but I have to admit something.

My black cat acting very strangely on Halloween.

Of course, Santana (warm winds of California) is blown through the house and had a lot of strange noises and movements that occurred because of the wind.

But still …

It was as if he was feeling something more at stake. Something that was not there.

Well, many people think cats are psychic. Bill Murray found a psychic cat in "Broken Flowers", while visiting an ex-girlfriend who was a "Cat Whisperer". Your cat sat and stared without blinking for the duration of your visit. He asked his ex-girlfriend's cat, and she replied, "He says you have a hidden agenda."

Cats seem to have some kind of special knowledge or perception of the world that we humans lack. Many cat owners attest to the experience of having your cat arch its back, growling and spitting at something that "does not exist".

So, if this is the case, that at least some cats are sensitive to the supernatural and therefore sensitive to ghosts, ghost hunters perhaps as people TAPS (Ghost Hunters "on SciFi Channel), http: / / www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/) could consider the determination of these cats and take them to places frequented by those looking into.Ordering the execution of the miners as the caged canary mine as indicators of poison gas.

Who knows? These "Ghost detectors feline" may be more reliable than some of the high-tech devices and infrared sound recording systems TAPS used to provide indications of the wayward spirits. These instruments sometimes give false readings due to lazy owners who do not fix their malfunctioning of transformers and fuse boxes.

Perhaps a black cat, not arch your back, because of electromagnetism to escape a faulty fuse box, could reliably "spit" a real ghost.

Who knows?

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